Community Unity Festival 08


Beginning in 2005 CHAC with the assistance of local organizations including Gallery Row and Unified Fathers for Life, Lunar-K!, United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP), The Toy District and Historic Core Merchants began a street party day of music, art exhibits, childrens activities and community awareness called the Community Unity Festival. Our community is the Downtown Recovery Community (also known as Skid Row) and the new emerging loft community. How can these 2 seemingly separate economic and social demographics be one common community you may ask? Today, they are both a place where the residents and businesses have come to start a new beginning and they both exist side by side within not only a block but often in the same building. They comprise what is referred to as the Historic Core District and the Central City East District. It is a place of million dollar condos and low cost housing units wine bistros and art galleries, wholesale marts, immigrants, highly educated young to middle aged professionals and individuals in recovery acquiring new skills, also those looking for a hand up, all wanting create their version of the American dream. Our Festival is a chance for the people of our community to party on the street be entertained by local and greater Los Angeles talent, hear music, see exhibits and learn about each other and the different organizations that serve the many disparate interests and needs of the Downtown. Last year the Community Unity Festival raised money for a local education organization, H.O.P.E, which stands for Helping Other People Emerge. This year with the help of United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) Unified Fathers for Life, Lunar-K!, Dramastage-Qumran and other community groups and businesses, we want to raise money for an inner city youth fund to fund activities and stay in school incentives for our at risk community youth. They are the kids in our community who through no fault of their own are being born and brought into circumstances in which they are often forced to live precariously in and around the recovery/skid row, low cost housing areas of Downtown. The festival is the only one of its kind in Downtown. It brings together the loft community and the Skidrow community and area merchants, for a day of partying and information. The festival includes activities for adults as well as kids and is a creative space for partying. CHAC hopes to create a cultural center for downtown in Historic Fire Station No.23 and have it restored in time for the buildings centennial in 2010. Some of the funds raised at this festival will go to further that effort by creating a fund for the maintenance and restoration of Historic Fire Station No.23 beginning with the replacement of the roof. Community Unity Festival is funded solely from business and individual contributions. This years Community Unity Festival is made up of these basic elements: The Stage for music and other performers featuring local and Outstanding L.A. Talent Staged Readings of original scripts Skateboarding and other child and family activities and entertainment Food Community interactive forum with tables for organizations, speeches and presentations. If you want information on how you or your organization can contribute, click here to learn how you can participate the day of the event or be a sponsor. For further info contact us at: chac.la@att.net Daniel Taylor Executive Director Corporation for History, Art and Culture
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Beginning in 2005 CHAC with the assistance of local organizations including Gallery Row and Unified Fathers for Life, Lunar-K!, United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP), The Toy District and Historic Core Merchants began a street party day of music, art exhibits, childrens activities and community awareness called the Community Unity Festival. Our community is the Downtown Recovery Community (also known as Skid Row) and the new emerging loft community.

How can these 2 seemingly separate economic and social demographics be one common community you may ask? Today, they are both a place where the residents and businesses have come to start a new beginning and they both exist side by side within not only a block but often in the same building.

They comprise what is referred to as the Historic Core District and the Central City East District. It is a place of million dollar condos and low cost housing units wine bistros and art galleries, wholesale marts, immigrants, highly educated young to middle aged professionals and individuals in recovery acquiring new skills, also those looking for a hand up, all wanting create their version of the American dream.

Our Festival is a chance for the people of our community to party on the street be entertained by local and greater Los Angeles talent, hear music, see exhibits and learn about each other and the different organizations that serve the many disparate interests and needs of the Downtown.

Last year the Community Unity Festival raised money for a local education organization, H.O.P.E, which stands for Helping Other People Emerge.

This year with the help of United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) Unified Fathers for Life, Lunar-K!, Dramastage-Qumran and other community groups and businesses, we want to raise money for an inner city youth fund to fund activities and stay in school incentives for our at risk community youth. They are the kids in our community who through no fault of their own are being born and brought into circumstances in which they are often forced to live precariously in and around the recovery/skid row, low cost housing areas of Downtown.

The festival is the only one of its kind in Downtown. It brings together the loft community and the Skidrow community and area merchants, for a day of partying and information. The festival includes activities for adults as well as kids and is a creative space for partying.

CHAC hopes to create a cultural center for downtown in Historic Fire Station No.23 and have it restored in time for the buildings centennial in 2010.

Some of the funds raised at this festival will go to further that effort by creating a fund for the maintenance and restoration of Historic Fire Station No.23 beginning with the replacement of the roof.

Community Unity Festival is funded solely from business and individual contributions.

This years Community Unity Festival is made up of these basic elements:

The Stage for music and other performers featuring local and Outstanding L.A. Talent
Staged Readings of original scripts
Skateboarding and other child and family activities and entertainment
Food
Community interactive forum with tables for organizations, speeches and presentations.

If you want information on how you or your organization can contribute, click here to learn how you can participate the day of the event or be a sponsor.

For further info contact us at:

chac.la@att.net

Daniel Taylor
Executive Director
Corporation for History, Art and Culture

Back to the CHAC Home Page