Annenberg Foundation / Autry Center To Present 4th Lummis Day
The Annenberg Foundation will return as a Presenting Sponsor of Lummis Day, joining The Autry National Center, Northeast L.A.'s neighborhood councils, the Department of Recreation and Parks, Jose Huizar and Council District 14 and Ed Reyes and Council District 1 as key sponsors of the fourth annual festival. The fourth annual Lummis day festival, a free, public celebration of the history and multi-cultural heritage of the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods, will take place on Sunday, June 7, 2009.
The event will feature musicians, artists, dance groups, restaurants and poets representing an array of Northeast L.A.'s ethnic and cultural groups. The third annual Festival, held June 1, 2008, drew approximately 9,000 persons to events at Sycamore Grove Park, Casa de Adobe and Lummis Home.
As in past years, the June 7 Festival will be preceded by educational workshops for teachers and poetry readings and workshops to be held in partnership with Northeast L.A. libraries.
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who served as the L.A. Times' first city editor upon his arrival in L.A. in 1885. Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Established in 1989 by Walter H. Annenberg, the Annenberg Foundation provides funding and support to nonprofit organizations in the United States and globally through its headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania and offices in Los Angeles, California. Its major program areas are education and youth development; arts, culture and humanities; civic and community life; health and human services; and animal services and the environment. In addition, the Foundation operates a number of initiatives which expand and complement these program areas. The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving this goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.
Lummis Day is produced by the Lummis Day Community Foundation, Inc. Participation in the organizing and planning process is open to all members of the community. Lummis Day info and updates will be available here at
www.lummisday.org.
Eliot Sekuler
818-535-9178
lummisday@yahoo.com
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Greater Cypress Park NC Signs On As Lummis Day 2009 Sponsor
The Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council will return as a sponsoring organization of Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles.
The GPNC joins The Autry National Center and the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council as the initial organizations to sign on as sponsors of the fourth annual Lummis Day, a free, public celebration of the history and multi-cultural heritage of the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods. The 4th annual Lummis Day event will be held on Sunday, June 7, 2009.
As in past years, the June 7 Festival will be preceded by educational workshops for teachers and poetry readings and workshops to be held in partnership with Northeast L.A. libraries.
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who served as the L.A. Times' first city editor upon his arrival in L.A. in 1885. Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Lummis Day is produced by the Lummis Day Community Foundation, Inc. Participation in the organizing and planning process is open to all members of the community. Lummis Day info and updates will be available at
www.lummisday.org.
Eliot Sekuler
818-535-9178
lummisday@yahoo.com
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Arroyo Seco NC To Help Sponsor 4th Lummis Day, June 7, 2009
SPECIAL OFFER:
Free T-Shirts at the ASNC table!
The Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council (ASNC), the City-certified local government advisory board for the Northeast communities of Mount Washington, Monterey Hills, Sycamore Grove, Hermon, and Montecito Heights, will give you the shirt ON your back at Lummis Day events, this Sunday, June 7, if you're one of the first ASNC stakeholders to register as such for the first time.
The friendly, colorful, very limited edition (so far) ASNC "Make a Difference" T-shirts will be available to 20 new registering stakeholders from the neighborhood council's member communities starting at noon at the ASNC booth in Sycamore Grove Park (while supplies last, void where prohibited, not available in all sizes or any other color, some shrinkage may occur).
Who are ASNC stakeholders? Simply put: ". . . individuals who live, work, own property, or are parents or guardians of students attending school within the ASNC boundaries, or who declare a stake in any one of the five ASNC communities and affirm the factual basis for that claim. . ."
So, how can you get one if you're ALREADY a registered ASNC stakeholder? (Here's a hint -- bring an unregistered family member, co-worker, etc. along for the trip to Sycamore Grove Park on Sunday afternoon - and have THEM register with one of the friendly ASNC board representatives. Your newly registered companion may just be so thankful that you introduced them to community activities, they'll give YOU the shirt out of gratitude!).
These durable, green-as-Arroyo- algae tees feature ASNC's new "Make a Difference" recruitment art, the playful handiwork of Montecito Heights artist Mary Hopkins Quirarte. The same artwork can be seen daily in poster form inside the passenger cars of the Gold Line light rail train that runs through our area.
The ASNC has been a charter sponsor of Lummis Day activities since its inception. |
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The Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council will help sponsor the fourth annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles, a free, public celebration of the history and multi-cultural heritage of the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods, on Sunday, June 7, 2009.
The event will feature musicians, artists, dance groups, restaurants and poets representing an array of Northeast L.A.'s ethnic and cultural groups. The third annual Festival, held June 1, drew approximately 9,000 persons to events at Sycamore Grove Park, Casa de Adobe and Lummis Home.
As in past years, the June 7 Festival will be preceded by educational workshops for teachers and poetry readings and workshops to be held in partnership with Northeast L.A. libraries.
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who served as the L.A. Times' first city editor upon his arrival in L.A. in 1885. Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Lummis Day info and updates will be available here, at
www.lummisday.org
Best,
Eliot Sekuler
818-535-9178
lummisday@yahoo.com
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Highland Park Heritage Trust Sponsors 2009 Lummis Fest
The Highland Park Heritage Trust will sponsor the 2009 Lummis Day Festival and has awarded a grant to the Lummis Day Community Foundation to fund the Festival's activities in the areas of education and preservation advocacy.
In making the grant, Highland Park Heritage Trust President Carmela Gomes said: “Through the poetry readings and workshops and the hands-on, children-oriented activities during the June 7 Lummis Day Festival as well as outreach to schools and community organizations, we believe we are working toward a common purpose: to instill a “sense of place” in the youth and families of Northeast Los Angeles. We believe Lummis Day is worthy of this grant.”
An all-volunteer, non-profit community organization founded in 1982, The Highland Park Heritage Trust's mission is to preserve the heritage of Los Angeles' Arroyo Seco communities through education, advocacy and preservation projects for the benefit of present and future generations. LA's Arroyo Seco communities consist of Highland Park, Garvanza, Mt. Washington, Hermon, Montecito Heights and Cypress Park.
The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles on Sunday June 7. Program information –including info on a May 2 “Charles Lummis' Birthday Party” fundraiser and May's “Viva Poetry” library series, can be found at www.lummisday. org.
Eliot Sekuler
818-535-9178
lummisday@yahoo.com 
