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Long Beach Herald 10-06-2022

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Long Beach’s Fall Festival to mark turn of the season By BRENDAN CARpENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

Courtesy City of Long Beach

loNg BEACH CITy officials, including City Manager Donna Gayden, center, gathered at City Hall Monday with representatives of Equinor to announce their partnership for this weekend’s Fall Festival.

How do you know it’s fall in Long Beach? The annual Fall Festival returns to Kennedy Plaza this weekend, after a two-year hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic. There will be rides for children and activities for all ages. And for the first time, the Norway-based energy company Equinor will be a sponsor, one of 20. Equinor officials joined City Manager Donna Gayden, City Council President Karen McInnis and Vice President Liz Treston, Police Commissioner Ron Walsh and Parks Commissioner Joe Brand at a news conference at City Hall Monday to announce the partnership. Continued on page 5

Arts in Long Beach look toward a permanent home By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

Long Beach artists, whose projects are regularly scattered about the city, at Kennedy Plaza and in churches and synagogues, have longed for a permanent home for their paintings and photographs and dance and theater performances. Last Friday after noon, a group of artists announced that they had found a spot for a permanent home for the arts in the city — a vacant lot at the southwest corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Park Avenue once occupied by Nu-Clean Drive-In Cleaners, which has been

demolished. The property, now fenced off, is owned by Paul Grossman, of Lido Beach. Artists in Partnership, the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Youth Theatre/Dance Loft have spent the past few years collaborating on plans for a facility dedicated to the arts. According to Johanna Mathieson-Ellmer, executive director of Artists in Partnership, plans are to construct a two-story building on the site. The ground floor would be composed of retail stores, and the second floor by the Professional Youth Theatre/Dance Loft. “We want this to be Long

Beach’s cultural arts center,” Mathieson-Ellmer said on Friday at a pop-up photography show at the fenced-off site. About a half-dozen Long Beach photographers displayed their work, which was pinned up on the fence. The show was held in conjunction with the ar ts groups’ announcement. Mathieson-Ellmer and other arts officials said that for too long, Long Beach art functions have been held at different locations, including the public library, houses of worship and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. “This will be a wonderful way to display art in the city,” Mathieson-Ellmer said.

She and others said they were unsure when the building will be constructed. MathiesonEllmer and a woman who answered the phone at Grossman’s home, who declined to be identified, said that the state Department of Environmental Conservation was conducting a review of the site. DEC officials did not immediately return calls

requesting comment. The arts facility would be managed by Brooke Robyn Dairman and Lisa Bronshteyn, who took over the Professional Youth Theatre/Dance Loft, at 160 W. Park Ave., in 2019. It had been operating under different ownership for over 30 years. Bronshteyn and Dairman are coContinued on page 4


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