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Entries from August 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
Civic Center Multipurpose Sports Field
The City of Santa Monica Government broke ground today, August 27, 2019, on its newest sports facility, the Civic Center Multipurpose Sports Field. Slated to open in summer of 2020, the community sports field will serve Santa Monicans of all ages with space to play soccer, rugby, and lacrosse.
In tandem with the construction of the field, the City will conduct an arts-driven community engagement project to commemorate the history of the site, once the center of Santa Monica’s historic African American community known as the Belmar neighborhood.
The City will work with key community leaders, artists and Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, a prominent historian on the history of the African-American community in Santa Monica, for this project. This group will collaborate on the development of a significant community engagement process and subsequent education strategy, with the goal of increasing awareness of the legacy of the Belmar neighborhood and the impact of the forced displacement of African American community members on the greater Santa Monica community. This will result in a series of public artworks that commemorate this history, with additional artworks to be developed for surrounding areas in the future.
This project is a part of multiple investments to the Santa Monica Civic Center. More information about projects, construction, and impacts in the area is available at santamonica.gov/civiccenter.
Ping Pong Palooza
Competitors rally during Ping Pong Palooza at The Waterfront Venice on Sunday, August 25, 2019.. #pingpong
Go-Topless Day
Equal rights activists march along the Venice Boardwalk wearing pasties during the 12th annual National Go Topless Day on Sunday, August 25, 2019.The Go-Topless Day rally is meant to proclaim women’s constitutional right to go bare-chested in public. Gotopless.org claims constitutional equality between men and women on being topless in public. Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. Many states in the US have adopted the right for women to be topless in public. HOWEVER, in many cases, local ordinances and discriminatory practices result in women STILL being unable to be topless in the same area as men. The purpose of Go Topless Day is top point out the discrimination in these ordinances. The annual national Go Topless Day protest falls on the exact day that the original womens rights bill was signed into effect giving women ALL the same rights that men have. Members of gotopless.org will be giving a petition in Washington DC and requesting an audience with the president to enforce womens rights and make the ordinances either eliminate the ordinance OR remove the name female or woman in the ordinance which will give them the right to cite MEN as well as women for baring thier nipples. To read more about the ordinances, find a city close to you where the parade will be held, donate to help the cause, or get other information please go to www.gotopless.org Gotopless.org
Daniel Morris
Violinist Daniel Morris Music plays Rockstar by Post Malone at the#SantaMonicaPier on Thursday, August 22, 2019.
Jen Awad
Jen Awad performs during the Twilight Concert on the #SantaMonicaPieron Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
Anna Valenzuela
Comedian Anna Valenzuela performs during the Twilight Concert at the#SantaMonicaPier on Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
King Solomon the Snake Charmer
King Solomon the Snake Charmer holds a plastic snakes while balancing on a bucket at the #SantaMonica Pier on Monday, August 12, 2019.




Gino Loffredo
Artist Gino Loffredo @ginoflo paints a mural at Main Street and Pacific #SantaMonica on Friday, August 9, 2019.. The mural was commissioned by Beautify Earth.



