A Night at the LA Art Walk

A Night at the LA Art Walk

Going to the LA Art Walk  on a Thursday the 13th is like going to a food fair.

But unlike a food fair, it’s a food trucks fair where you can find all kinds of people.

It is a novel idea of a dead downtown to keep itself and rejuvenate itself. An opportunity to give a night life to a mass of people  ( mostly middle class  and  the upper strata of the working class ) during hard times. So the authorities came out with an idea to call it an Art Walk.

Besides giving the middle class to walk and conglomerate, ,meet  friends and try to entice people to see the art galleries, trendy things and the like, it’s a good scheme to give people an excuse to spend money not on art but on food and drinks.

We entered several art galleries to oogle at supposed to be art exhibits. A springkling of paintings, bodies of work that is up to anybody's interpretations. For them maybe, the more you cant understand it- that’s art!

A friend who was with me said:” It’s just a walk, never mind the art.”

Going at my first time, I was surprised to learn it was side by side with State federal building where the office of the governor was. It says much at the time the state is set to institute cuts, after cuts after cuts while giving the rich people and the ongoing war in Afghahistan more money and more body to die and maim.

The only saving grace for the night was the time spend in a place called “Harlem’s Place” in LA. I was told that it was a place called formerly as “Lost Souls Café.” And it lived up to its name because it was lost and the café has another name. Still its called Harlem Place in LA?

Well I can say, I enjoy the songs. the singers  and the Ube Shake provided by a friend.

And also two photographs on display by an AFFIRM activist. Maybe the only thing I enjoy most of the night and the company of KMBers, youngsters whose youthful vigor infects  and inspires my empty night of introspection.

A good night, an  excuse to greet a fellow activist a happy birthday with a tight hug.  Yah a good walk for a cold night with the mass.

A good walk and really a good night.

About the art? Oh come on forget it!