WEEKEND FESTIVALS CHALK IT UP.Byline: Fred ShusterCome to this weekend's 12th annual Absolut Chalk street-painting fair. The Pasadena festival celebrates chalk on pavement as an artistic expression and offers an opportunity to see about 600 artists create murals. The festival will also feature live music, and visitors can paint their own murals at Chalkland, a specially designated area for families and kids. Also, in honor of Father's Day, several ``famous father'' look-alikes will stroll through the courtyards and corridors of Paseo Colorado, where the event takes place. Absolut Chalk benefits the community arts programs of Light Bringer Project, a Pasadena-based nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. . ABSOLUT CHALK FESTIVAL: Paseo Colorado Shopping Center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , Colorado Boulevard Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. between Marengo and Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
Also happening this weekend: CHINESE FOOD FAIR: Arts, crafts and more than 50 restaurants represented. Chinatown, at the corner of Broadway and College Street, adjacent to the Chinatown Metro stop, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Free. (213) 680-0243 or chinatownla.com. IRISH FAIR: Parades, performers, pets. Woodley Park Woodley Park refers to the following:
CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Make your own mural at this weekend's Absolut Chalk street-painting fair in Pasadena. Pictured is a chalk creation from last year's festival. |
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