A demonstration has been announced to take place in front of Self Help Graphics. The peaceful protest and picketline is to demand the immediate opening of Self Help Graphics and the removal of its Board of Directors, which had the cultural center closed and locked up. Take a stand with artists, activists, and community members to save LA's oldest and world renown Chicano arts center!

PROTEST TO SAVE SELF HELP GRAPHICS!
Wednesday, June 22nd at Noon
Self Help Grahics 3802 Cesar E. Chavez Ave. LA 90063

Bring signs, banners, and artworks! Come in Day of the Dead costume! Bring your digital cameras!

Self Help Graphics Board of Directors - You're Fired! Art For The People!

[ for directions to SHG, follow this link: http://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/about/directions.shtml ]

Who owns the center and contact inforamtion?
Is it public or private?
Why was it closed?
How do we get it reopened?

Who owns the center and contact inforamtion?
Is it public or private?
Why was it closed?
How do we get it reopened?

read artist mark vallen's story about the closing of self help... he gives lots of details. self help is a non-profit cultural center thats been open since the late 60s. this mess reminds me of pacifica radio being hijacked a few years ago by a board of directors that wanted to make it a corporate radio station. the people organized and took by the station... same will have to happen with self help. the story on self help by vallen is at.... http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/2005/06/self-help-graphics-finished.html

Galleria Otra Vez / SHG has been and still is the only art center and gallery in East Los Angeles where La Raza me included have been inspired and taught how to express our creativity as artists . I grew up living along side one the artist who gave life to SHG Gronk. I'm an artist who learned so much from Arturo Urista ,a teacher who was the director of the gallery in 1992.

this is from yesterday's times:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-selfhelp18jun18,1,5091217.story

From the LA Times:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-selfhelp18jun18,1,5091217.story

This is great! I hope you get a good crowd seeing how this is taking place during the week and during the day. Don't forget to mention the community meeting on June 28 at Ave 50 Studio in Highland Park. (see link for details http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog

The Board must GO!

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