For Project Reliquiae, Trade City Production Manager Kris Swick (aka: kswick) is constructing a crowd-sourced, sculptural archive of objects that have been rendered obsolete by technology. He is currently collecting relics and the stories that accompany them from interested participants. The sculpture will be displayed on the Popwagon in the coming months. Check out the website for the project and contribute an item from your home that has been replaced by your computer.
CELESTIAL BOWLING PARTY 8-9PM
MUSIC THEATER SPACESHIP 9-10PM
The multi-disciplinary artist, Jeepneys, will perform a one-night only site-specific performance entitled “Bowling with Aliens” at All Star Lanes Bowling Alley on May 11th 2013, as part of the Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture. The performance begins at 8:00pm when Jeepneys and other “aliens” including the infamous BIG BUGS will throw a celestial bowling party which will be free and open to the public. Come bowl with aliens!
The bowling will be followed by a musical performance by Jeepneys in the PopWagon underneath the stars. PopWagon is LA’s newest mobile venue operated by Trade-City. For this not-to-be-missed performance, Jeepneys will transform the PopWagon into a vibrant tropical spaceship and perform a set of interstellar sounds and movements. She intends to blast you into another dimension, be ready to board the ship!
Video from Miggie Wong’s Popwagon performance installation at the NELA Art Walk on April 13, 2013.
The magical Popwagon will be appearing once again in Northeast LA. We’ll be parked in the post office parking lot at 5132 York Blvd. in Highland Park, taking part in the NELAart second Saturday Art Walk.
From 5pm-9pm, artist Miggie Wong will be installing a temporary balloon structure, then at 9 The Group Glare will take the stage for an impromptu popup concert.
These vendors will also be on hand at the Pop Shop to sell you some art wares:
Hope to see you there!
Join us on Saturday December 15 from 12-5 at Bergamot Station’s Holiday Open House. We’ll be celebrating the holiday season by selling handmade art gifts while enjoying some live music.
Here’s what we’ve got lined up:
Kris Swick
Haunted House of Projects
Evy Lareau
Neanderthal Accoutrement
Silver Fox Salvage
Bergamot Station is at 2525 Michigan Ave. in Santa Monica.
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On Sunday August 19, The Popwagon will be presenting the music of Dirt Bird at the Santa Monica Museum of Art as the final stop of the Tour da Arts. Visit the Facebook Event Page for more details.
Sad to say, one of our favorite art spaces is closing its doors next month. For five years, Royal/T Café in Culver City served up tasty food, and colorful art events in its hybrid café-gallery-performance-retail space. The curators presented work by prestigious artists in a casual, playful setting, offering an alternative to the typical white-walled, somber gallery.
If you’ve never paid a visit, there’s still time. Stop in for lunch, or come to their Greatest Hits Party on Saturday, June 30.