Ready, Set, GO! to the 2008 Healthy Neighborhood Festival: Saturday, Oct. 11
On your marks! Get fit! Have fun! The Center for Healthy Communities presents its 3rd annual Healthy Neighborhood Festival, a block party for downtown Los Angeles that celebrates well-being, healthy choices and cultural excitement. Healthy living is fun for the whole family!
- Check your vital signs with free medical screenings
- Experiment with fitness through heart-pumping activities like hula-hooping, break dancing, rock climbing and interactive world music and dance performances
- Discover how to maintain good health at home through local resources, businesses and organizations
- Win one of many raffle prizes!
Admission and parking are free at this interactive event for all ages.
Performers include:
KidTribe - www.kidtribe.com
Kayamanan Ng Lahi - www.kayamanan.org/
J.U.i.C.E. - www.rampartjuice.com/
Ballroom Madness - www.ballroommadness.org
Ballet Folclorico do Brasil - www.danceumbrella.com/BalletFoclorico.htm
The Healthy Neighborhood Festival collaborated with local community partners to establish performing arts residencies in local schools and community centers to promote fitness and activity. The results of these residencies will be showcased through live performances throughout the fesitival.
Thank you to the following organizations for helping to encourage healthy living:
LA's BEST After-School Arts Program with No Easy Props, Myriam Savage, Aztec Dance and Art, and Soro Solo
Para Los Niños with City Hearts and Latin Sound
Search to Involve Pilipino Americans
Ballroom Madness
The gallery exhibition, Food Fight! will also be open during the festival.
The California Endowment's
Center for Healthy Communities
1000 N. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Click here for a map and driving directions. For questions, please e-mail rsvpchc@calendow.org.
Produced by Community Arts Resources (CARS) www.carsla.net
