Green Dreams on March 7, 2020

Mar Vista Music & Art Walk: Green Dreams

Saturday, March 7, 2020

4 - 10 pm

Art, music, and sustainability! A celebration of all things eco-friendly!

“Green Dreams” took place Saturday, March 7th from 4 - 10 pm on Venice Blvd in the heart of Mar Vista. The sidewalks were packed with live painters, art and craft vendors, interactive art, installations, live bands and DJs with sustainable messages, and eco-friendly organizations.

OUR SPONSORS

GREEN ORGANIZATIONS

FEATURED VENDORS & FOOD TRUCKS

PHOTOS

Thank you to Gabby Galarza, Rebekah Shane, and our Instagram fans for photographing the event.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Venice High School Learning Garden 📖🥕- 2428 Walgrove Ave

• 3 - 4 pm Nurturing with Nature kids workshop 

• 4 pm Painting-through-dance activity by ballerina Benita Bünger

• 4 - 6:30 pm Open music jam, bring your instruments!

Dogromat 🐶🛁- 12926 Venice Blvd

• Music - Tom Sless, Orpheus, Susie Seiko, DAI, DJ Carrie Cui

• Spectacleptic Comedy Troupe

• Four Sigmatic mushroom truck 🍄

Disability Community Resource Center ♿- 12901 Venice Blvd

• PlantWave - This device detects electrical variations in plants and translates them to a continuous stream of soothing music, giving us a sonic window into the secret life of plants.

• STAR Education’s RockSTAR youth bands, TMAX, PlantWave + Farmer Dave, Open Mic 7-8 pm (come share your music!), Grievous Angels

• New paintings by local artists Mary Kinzelburg, Geneva Simmons, Esther Pearlman, Monique Boileau

The Moving Joint 🤸 - 12812 Venice Blvd

• Local Organics Los Angeles - $1 produce for sale from this weekly vegetable and fruit box service that saves “ugly” veggies from becoming food waste

• Under A Pepper Tree open mic group hosts Our Wisdom - Our Voices - Our Force, a hands-on creative workshop to find our inner voices

Whimsy + Row 👗👜- 12801 Venice Blvd

• Whimsy + Row, Mar Vista’s local sustainable clothing brand, hosts a clothing drive for the Downtown Women’s Center 

Food Trucks 🥦🥨- 12553 Venice Blvd.

• Pinch of Flavor, Baby’s Badass Burgers, Frozen Fruit Co. vegan ice cream, Gold Land BBQ, Sabores de Mexico, Richeeze

826LA 🌇 - 12515 Venice Blvd

• Fascination 2.0 - This giant LED sculpture represents an earthly & divine Guardian figure, a gathering place where visitors can come together to share an offering of bottles, cans, or other recyclables. We're so grateful to everyone who donated to make this possible!

• Compostable LA - Bring your compost from home! Fruits, veggies, coffee grounds/filters, eggshells, shredded newspapers, old flowers. NO meat, dairy, fats/grease, “compostable” foodware.

Ceremony Meditation 🧘🏾‍♀️- 12513 Venice Blvd.

• An evening of sound and reiki healing, community, and rejuvenation

Alana’s Coffee Beer Garden ☕ - 12511 Venice Blvd.

• Alana's Coffee Beer Garden 🍺 Featuring Two Towns Ciderhouse

• Alana’s Coffee Stage - Old Corn Lickers, North Morlan, Delv, Single Dean, DJ Ned Learner, DJ Liquorbox, DJ KTWMN

• Green Dreams art exhibition - works celebrating nature or made from repurposed materials.  @fairymadeart, @jack_cavanaugh, @moniqueboileau.art, @trashyartbycatherine, @psychotronicsolutions, @eddyleeart, @stephanie_amcintosh, @nisipoesy, @runsonwillis, @artby_megabel, @mudpeach

Earthstar Stage at Vineyard Church 🎸- 3838 Centinela Ave.

• Earthstar Stage - Sound Masons, Ms. B Royal, School of Rock, Piel, Pretty

• Peace Sticks - Peace Sticks, a game of collaboration and flow used in schools, rehabilitation centers, corporate team building, and music festivals.

• Eco-friendly organizations - Greenpeace LA, Holistic Chamber of Commerce Santa Monica, Plug In America, RecycLA of Athens Services, LADOT Transit

Quiadaiyn Oaxacan Restaurant - New local art!

• Julian Montelongo, Jessica Bellamy, Jen LaVita

Space Salon Grand Opening 🎉💇 - 12324 Venice Blvd

• Mar Vista’s new environment-friendly forward salon! Interactive and live art, acoustic performances.

Grand View Market - 12210 Venice Blvd

• 6:00 Behind The Rows, 7:00 Visual Culture, 8:00 The Jetties, 9:00 Lucky Otis

Timewarp Music 🎹🎶 - 12204 Venice Blvd

• Behind the Meter - Live and local DJs playing in-store all day long. An eclectic sonic odyssey, taking us to all our favorite destinations including rock, house, nu-disco, blues, techno, electro, world beat and more. A portion of funds generated will go to fund solar installations for low income families.

Grand View Fine Art Studios 🖼️🎨- 3871 Grand View Blvd

• Open studios exhibition

Mar Vista Block Party 🥳 Venice Blvd from Inglewood to Grand View

• Presented by Artisfesto. Live painters, glass blowing, live music, over 50 artists and vendors, food trucks

ArtBar LA 🎨🥂 - 12017 Venice Blvd

• OUR HOUSE - One night, one room, one bond. And that bond is house music. $10 presale tickets, $15 cash at the door