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DTLB DESIGN DISTRICT OPENING NIGHT BLOCK PARTY // 6PM

DESIGN HUB: Studio One Eleven @ Mosaic Promenade 300 North Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802

Studio one Eleven and LB Living are throwing a block party on the Mosaic Promenade to celebrate the launch of the LA Design Festival at the DTLB Design District.

The event will feature LB design community demos by City Fabrick, S111-RDC, and the LB Community Design Center, vendors, DJ’s, food trucks, and a beer garden as well as an exhibition by artist Mario Ybarra Jr., entitled ‘Like a Cow Visiting a Butcher Shop.’ The installation was originally shown at ARCO Madrid and for the first time being shown in the artist’s hometown.

Also, on display at Studio One Eleven and throughout the Promenade is an International Poster Exhibition by designers and graphic artists from all over the world to celebrate design creativity, inclusiveness, freedom and love inspired by this year’s LA Design Festival Theme ‘Design for the People.’ The exhibition was curated by PosterTerritory and sponsored by Velvet Hammer.

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BEYOND THE FRAME LIVE PODCAST RECORDING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE PEOPLE’S POTTERY PROJECT // 4PM

Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown: 356 E 3rd St, Long Beach, CA 90802

Beyond the Frame Podcast welcomes the artist collective People’s Pottery Project, an artist-driven initiative to empower formerly incarcerated women and trans ppl through the arts. Founders Domonique and Ilka Perkins will be in conversation withcurator Paul Loya.

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STUDIO ONE ELEVEN STUDIO TOUR // 5PM

Design Hub: Studio One Eleven 245 East Third St, Long Beach, CA 90802

Studio One Eleven is an integrated architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture firm dedicated to repairing cities. Their DTLB studio was designed to be an Urban Lab, a space that inspires innovation and promotes economic and social justice, education, and dialogue within design fields that impact cities. Join Studio One Eleven Partner, Michael Bohn, for a studio tour and reception.

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Game: Plan // 6PM

DESIGN HUB: Studio One Eleven @ Mosaic Promenade 300 North Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802

How architects, planners, and cities can use games as a tool for improving engagement, increasing public participation, gaining better insight from the lived experience of community members, and ultimately designing better places with the people who will be using those spaces. Join non-profit design studio City Fabrick’s Executive Director + Principal Brian Ulaszewski and Director of Urban Planning + Design Alex Jung for this discussion and a demonstration of their Design-your-Park Game that is being used for planning parks throughout the city of Long Beach.

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FOR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS SINCE 1880: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TALK + TOUR OF LINCOLN PARK @ LB CIVIC CENTER // 11AM

Billie Jean King Library: 200 W Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802

Take a tour of the Billie Jean King Library and Lincoln Park, DTLB’s oldest, newest park at the LB Civic Center, recently redesigned by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM). The guided walk will share the past, present, and future of this community gathering space by Long Beach Heritage, SOM, and the People’s Architects Office, designers of the park’s future Covid-19 memorial. This event is organized by the DLBA and City Fabrick.

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THE CRITICALITY OF QUEER CRAFT WITH CHRISTINA WEBB // 1PM

Design Hub: Studio One Eleven 245 East Third St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Join Christina Webb for a conversation about work, stories, beauty, and resistance in Queer
design. This will look at past and present work that embodies innovation and activates change
through diverse ways of creating, while making space in critical ways.

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ARTIST WALKTHROUGH OF ‘VIRGINIA KATZ: TRANSITORY NATURE’ AND OPEN-AIR MARKETPLACE // 1PM

356 E 3rd St, Long Beach, CA 90802

An artist walkthrough of LBMA Downtown’s exhibition “Virginia Katz: Transitory Nature,” which looks to the human connection with landscape for insight. The exhibit and tour will run in tandem with an open-air market featuring The People’s Pottery Project and other local artists’ wares from noon to 4 pm.

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UNEARTHING A BLACK AESTHETIC: A DISCUSSION WITH DEMAR MATTHEWS // 3PM

Design Hub: Studio One Eleven 245 East Third St, Long Beach, CA 90802

Long Beach/Los Angeles-based architectural designer, theorist, and writer Demar Matthews, Principal of OffTop Design and adjunct facility at Long Beach City College, will be in conversation with Kevin Sherrod, Arts and Culture Practice Area Leader from Gensler, LA and design faculty at USC. They will discuss their work and their collaborative work, which investigates the power of architecture as a cultural signifier and vehicle of traditions, values, and identity for Black communities.

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PSYCHIC TEMPLE OF THE HOLY KISS TOUR AND KICK-OFF RECEPTION FOR LONG BEACH WALLS MURAL FESTIVAL AND ART RENZEI // 4PM (Sold Out)

Intertrend: 228 East Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802

Tour Long Beach’s second oldest building, The Psychic Temple of the Holy Kiss. The recently renovated landmark built in 1905 has a curious and sordid history. Originally erected by a cult leader for “psychological treatments,” the building was then a brothel and hotel and is now home to the creative agency, Intertrend.

As if that weren't enough to entice you, the tour will be followed by a special reception hosted by the non-profit arm of Intertrend, Creative Class Collective, to announce the much-anticipated opening dates of the Long Beach Walls and Art Renzei festival, a celebration of art that promises to be nothing short of extraordinary. Don't miss out on this dazzling and intriguing event.

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