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Flower Street Closures for Regional Connector Work
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eople traveling through Downtown on the weekends will need to find alternatives through the Financial District. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in the process of doing “cut and cover” work at Sixth and Flower streets as part of the Regional Connector project, which will connect the Gold, Blue and Expo lines through a 1.9-mile tunnel that will streamline cross-county travel. Work started on July 7, and the intersection will be closed every weekend through Oct. 22. The closures begin each Friday at 8 p.m. and continue through 5 a.m. on Mondays. The Regional Connector project is halfway complete, according to Metro, and the Flower Street work will help build the connection to the Seventh Street/Metro Center rail station. The $1.77 billion project is expected to be complete by December 2021.
Church Sets Up Services in Skid Row Mission
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nglewood’s Faithful Central Bible Church has launched a Downtown campus. The church took over the chapel in Skid Row’s Union Rescue Mission at 545 S. San Pedro
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St. Services started on July 8. The church’s branch will serve families staying at the mission and nearby Skid Row residents, according to Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission. Bales said the church will not affect the chapel’s regular use, as a shelter for 100 women each night. “If we were ever going to transform Skid Row, we needed churches of South Los Angeles to be partners with us,” Bales told Los Angeles Downtown News. “It has started off as a strong partnership. They even showed up and gave us a gift of $40,000 for the renovations we made on our fifth floor for family services.” Faithful Central Bible Church has been headed by Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer since 1982. Bales said that the partnership is modeled on similar arrangements at missions in Chicago, and the church’s use of the chapel is open ended.
JANM Gets Major Grant
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he Japanese American National Museum recently announced that it has received a sizable grant. The Freeman Foundation, a Vermont-based nonprofit, will award JANM $300,000; the funds will cover admission fees to the museum for as many as 25,000 students and teachers between now and June 2020. “The Japanese American National Museum is deeply grateful for this generous support from the Freeman Foundation. It is a very significant grant which will help to ensure that the programs we offer to school groups are robust and deliver the impact that our student visitors deserve,” JANM President and CEO Ann
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Burroughs said in a prepared statement. In 2017, the Freeman Foundation launched its Asian Arts and Culture Educational Funding Initiative. General admission at JANM is $12 for adults and $6 for seniors and students.
CAP UCLA Dates at Ace Hotel on Sale This Week
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he Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA is preparing for its second season in Downtown Los Angeles, which will include 14 shows at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. Tickets for the diverse lineup will go on sale on Monday, July 16. The majority of programs take place in Westwood, but the series found a steady audience in Downtown last season, with crowds taking in events such as Taylor Mac’s four-night A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. The 2018-19 Downtown season launches Sept. 22 with a performance by Vijay Iyer and writer Teju Cole. Other Central City highlights include author Fran Lebowitz on Sept. 30, a 25th anniversary performance of Beth Lapides’ variety show “UnCabaret” on Nov. 18, and Sam Green and the Kronos Quartet on Dec. 7. More information, a full listing of events and tickets are at cap.ucla.edu.
New Public Art Coming to Little Tokyo
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he Little Tokyo Service Center has launched an artist-in-residence program that will bring public and performance art to the neighborhood. The +LAB Artist Residen-
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cy features four artists working in different media and styles. The four-month residency, which started this month, is centered around the theme of “community control and self-determination.” Susu Altar will hang painted fabrics in doorways across the neighborhood and host workshops at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, while filmmaker Tina Takemoto will create a documentary on the northern end of First Street. Calligraphy artist Kuniharu Yoshia will stage performances throughout the neighborhood and Dan Kwong will meet with members of the community in story circles to hear their personal tales. Kwong will present a theatrical piece based on those stories on July 28-29. More information is at ltsc.org/artist-residency.
Ad Agency Inks Space at Row DTLA
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nother office tenant has signed up for space at the Row DTLA complex in the Industrial District. The creative advertising firm WC+A has inked a deal for 12,000 square feet of space inside one of the complex’s buildings. Terms of the lease were not disclosed, and the firm will vacate space near the University of Southern California on Grand Avenue. “The decision to relocate WC+A to Row DTLA was solidified with our understanding of the incredible creative community that has been curated here — we want to be a part of this community,” co-founder and CEO Kevin Williams said in a prepared statement.
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