Summer Reading Dinner with Big City Forum
Big City Forum and BOOKSHELVES at 3307 W Washington Blvd invite you to a communal end-of-summer dinner celebrating how art and literature can facilitate personal bonds. We believe in creating spaces and events that foster connection based on generosity, warmth, and the power of words…particularly by bringing people together around a dinner table.
For this collaborative event, we invite you to share your summer literary discovery—basically, an adult version of a back-to-school summer book report—over cocktails and grilled fish.
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Sunday, September 2nd | 6pm | 3307 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90018
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Please RSVP with the title of your summer reading selection so that we may share them with the group. We will be providing grilled fish for the table, and ask that you bring a side and a beverage.
Cheers,
Amanda Martin Katz & Leonardo Bravo
About BIG CITY FORUM
Big City Forum is a project founded by Los Angeles based artist, educator, and activist Leonardo Bravo. It is an interdisciplinary, curatorial research platform that brings attention to emergent practices across design, architecture, and the arts. It provides an ongoing exploration of the intersections between these creative disciplines and new ways of knowledge-making within the context of public space and social change. In 2014, Big City Forum was supported by a grant received by the Armory Center for the Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was in residence in the mezzanine galleries at the Armory for one year with the project City of Hope, City of Resistance: Research and Actions on the Urban Level. The project presented research and programs that focused on participatory strategies related to personal and collective action. The ideas generated throughout the residency were consolidated into a publication that was released in 2016. More recently, Big City Forum received a Creative Economic Development Fund grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the LA Department of Cultural Affairs to launch Talleres Publicos, a community-based project in the City of Pacoima, a grant from the SPArt Foundation to implement Big City LAB, an urban design residency for local high schools, and, in conjunction with California State University Dominguez Hills, was awarded a Creative California Communities grant from the California Arts Council.
photos courtesy of Leyna Lightman