Pencil in our next meeting for April 30th, 2PM, back at the Downey Theatre green room. We have special guest, Jay Lopez, formerly of the Downtown LA Art Walk, and currently of Art Weekend LA, Off Broadway LA, and has is own outfit called Contemporary Cultural Consultants. He helps cities find their footing with arts events and marrying the city's interests of economic revitalization of downtown areas with the arts. Thanks to Rene Garzona for hooking up a contact with Jay. Also, we want to formalize our "mission statement" if you will, and decide on what the main function of the Downey Arts Coalition will be. We talked last month through various options of being an collaboration and advocacy group vs getting into the business of producing events ourselves. … Continue reading Next meeting, Saturday April 30th 2PM