Now in its third annual year, Posse on Broadway brings live music and top DJ’s to the streets and venues of Downtown Santa Ana. A block party featuring 6 venues, 6 events, every 3rd Saturday of the summer June 19, July 17 & August 21.

June 19 Posse presents a FREE outdoor concert with LA folk outfit THE WATSON TWINS and local singer songwriter Barrett Johnson from 6-9pm on the 2nd Street Promenade. Directly following the concert, Proof Bar, Memphis Santora, The Crosby, Gypsy Den and Lola Gaspar host live music, DJ’s and food and drink specials until the last call.

Visit www.downtown-santaana.com for more information.

SATURDAY, JUNE 19

2nd STREET PROMENADE (Broadway/Sycamore)
6-9pm-Free-All Ages

The Watson Twins
with Barrett Johnson
& DJ Weird Beard

NORTH BROADWAY (1st-4th Sts.)
9pm–2am-Free

PROOF BAR:
J. Logic
Evol
DCON
bootmachine5000

THE CROSBY:
TVD
TSC-1 & Dijon
Thomas PM

MEMPHIS:
noMSG
Casual Touch
Acid Girls

GYPSY DEN:
Special live performances

Save the Date for 2nd installment of Posse on Broadway, July 17 with a free concert with Abandoned Pools (Tommy Walter of The Eels) and The Colourist. Details coming soon.

TECMA – Technology Entrepeneurship & Cultural Mexican Association and The City of Santa Ana
in honor of Mexico’s 2010 Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence
Are pleased to invite you to the

LATIN AMERICAN ART AUCTION

To benefit the Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center

May 27th, 2010 at 6 pm

Bowers Museum
2002 N Main St
Santa Ana, CA 92706

$50 Entry

Latin American Art Specialist

Gregorio Luke, Guest Speaker
Alex Slato, Auctioneer

Live Auction, Silent Auction, No Host Bar, Hors d’oeuvres
Live entertainment provided by OCCTAC Star Students
Please RSVP to OCCTAC at 714-547-5468 Ext. 310

http://www.occtac.org/

http://tecmaoc.info/

310 W 5th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701

We are located at the corner of Broadway and Fifth Street (above the El Curtido Salvadorian Restaurant)

http://www.el-centro.org/

Claudia de la Cruz Flamenco Institute Presents:

BAILANDO CON AMOR FLAMENCO
Annual Recital 2009

February 28th, 2009 at 6 pm
Ebell Theater
625 French St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
RSVP, Tickets & Information
www.flamencoinstitute.com
(714) 493-2058

Join us for an unforgettable evening at the Ebell Theater a beautiful location just one mile from the Bowers Museum. Enjoy food and refreshments before and after the show!

VOTED BEST FLAMENCO SCHOOL IN ORANGE COUNTY
OC Weekly & Tu Ciudad Magazine

Read featured cover story of Claudia de la Cruz at OCLifeMagazine

Cultural Stage of Art the house of
Claudia de la Cruz Flamenco Institute
is located at:

CSUF Grand Central Art Center
125 N. Broadway St
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Right below the Gypsy Den Cafe

Call to secure your space today!

714.543.1370 & 714.290.3959
info@culturalstageofart.org

www.flamencoinstitute.com

Happy New Year from Back to Natives! We’ve thought long and hard, and we’ve
come up with this list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions for you!

1. Give Mother Nature a hand – volunteer at least once a month (with
Back to Natives!)

2. Get in shape – spend time in Nature (volunteering with Back to
Natives!)

3. Make new friends/meet cool new people (while volunteering with Back
to Natives!)

4. Donate funds to help Back to Natives (every little bit helps keep
our programs going!)

2009 will be a Year of Volunteering with Back to Natives. Here are the
dates of our upcoming HABITAT RESTORATION volunteer events (weeding,
planting, and seeding):

1-11-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano

1-12-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Jeronimo Creek in Mission Viejo

1-12-09, 12:30 – 2:30PM, at San Juan Elementary’s Habitat Garden

1-18-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Mason Regional Park in Irvine

1-26-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Jeronimo Creek in Mission Viejo

1-26-09, 12:30 – 2:30PM, at San Juan Elementary’s Habitat Garden

2-8-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano

2-9-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Jeronimo Creek in Mission Viejo

2-9-09, 12:30 – 2:30PM, at San Juan Elementary’s Habitat Garden

2-22-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Mason Regional Park in Irvine

3-8-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano

3-22-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Mason Regional Park in Irvine

4-12-08, 9AM – 12PM, at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano

4-26-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Mason Regional Park in Irvine

5-10-08, 9AM – 12PM, at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano

5-24-09, 9AM – 12PM, at Mason Regional Park in Irvine

RSVP for any of these events to volunteer@backtonatives.org or 949-509-4787,
and we will send directions and more info. ALWAYS bring gloves, sunscreen,
a re-useable water bottle, snacks, a hat, and closed toed shoes.

And if you’re up for a long term commitment:

Restoration Volunteer Training Program
Back to Natives has partnered with the US Forest Service to provide a 9
month restoration volunteer training program. BTN will educate volunteers in
dry restoration practices within the Cleveland National Forest. For more
information and to sign up for this FREE training program please contact
restoration@backtonatives.org. The 2008/9 class has already begun, but we
welcome participants to join in at any time. Remaining dates are: January
17, February 21, March 21, April 25, & May 16 .
Click here for a registration form, and an event waiver.

Back to NativesRESTORATION
(949) 509-4787 voice/fax
(949) 335-8656 cell
Saving Habitat One Person at a Time
www.backtonatives.org

Mission Hospital in Orange County and OCCCA to debut one-of-a-kind art exhibit of inspiring medical imagery captured in fascinating contemporary art

Exhibition Dates:
February 5 – 27, 2009
117 N. Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA
714.667.1517 www.occca.org

Opening Reception Saturday, February 7th, 6 PM to 10 PM

“This exciting exhibit combines two very different but very fascinating worlds of science and art,” said Joseph Gagliardo, executive director of imaging services and innovative technologies at Mission Hospital. “The images used in the artwork are captured by the very same imaging equipment that saves lives every day. Through this exhibit, our advanced diagnostic equipment now gives life to art, too.”

Images from Mission Hospital’s advanced technology – including 3- and 4-D ultrasound, mammography, interventional and digital radiology, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and conventional X-rays – serve as the basis of creation as OCCCA artists mold the images to their own artistic expression.

Artwork from the following OCCCA artists will be on display at “The Art of Imaging”:

Jeff Alu
Stephen Anderson
Suki Berg
Richard Bohn
Jeffrey Crussell
Leslie Davis
Julie Easton
Rebecca Erbstoesser
Kebe Fox
Pamela Grau Twena
Nancy Harlan
Rik Lawrence
Rob Mintz
David B Ordaz
Doli Polivka
Christina Ponce
Danica Ristow
Linda Southwell
Gregg Stone
Barbara Thompson
Sergio Dirzo Salgado
Darlyn Susan Yee

About Mission Hospital
Mission Hospital is a 301-bed acute care, full-service facility providing the most advanced healthcare services and diagnostic care to south Orange County. One of only three designated trauma centers in the county, the hospital offers 24-hour emergency care and specialized services through its Mission Imaging Center, Mission Heart Center, Mission Maternity Center, Mission Women’s Wellness Center and Mission Stroke Center. The hospital also offers the highest level of care in orthopedics, rehabilitation, cancer, spine and vascular services. CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital, a separately licensed pediatric hospital, serves as the only designated pediatric healthcare center in south Orange County. A member of the St. Joseph Health System, the hospital is one of 14 not-for-profit hospitals sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. For more information visit mission4health.com

Special Music Event!

Feb 21st concert: unique music event: 8pm FREE
Eclectic Music Concerts #32

Dancing Lethargic
Kelly Slusher (from Portland Oregon)
Darius Green and His Flying Machine
and a unique performance by
christiaan cruz

Please Join Us!

The LATINO OC 300 Reception & Mixer

Tuesday, January 20, 5:30-8:30 PM
Delhi Community Center
505 E. Central Ave., Santa Ana, CA

Sponsored by
North Star Investors- Robert & Rosie Penn
Delhi Community Center
State Farm Insurance- Maggie Rodriguez, Agent
Ultimate Gifts- Janet Cronick

Host and MC
Ernie G, Comedian

Fabulous Food, Exhibits and Entertainment

The Event is at no charge with your RSVP
to stayconnected2004@yahoo.com

Amusings, Hauntings, Wantings
Multi media installation / Brain Mapping
by stephen anderson
Exhibit runs November 1st to 29th, 2008

The Plan For Your Body, 2008 stephen anderson

The Eclectic company and occca presents:

Sat, Nov 15, 8pm, FREE
EMC concert: no. 28, eclectic electric eccentric

Panic Movement
Guppies
sleepr wave
Steven H. Antonio
DWL (from Portland Oregon)
music all around the area, from sound downtown
but OURS IS FREE!

+

Sat, Nov 22: 8pm, FREE
EMC Concert no.29: alternative, techno, operatic

Dancing Lethargic
The Lynx Technique
Joy Shannon & the Beauty Marks

orange county center for contemporary art
117 N. Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA. 92701
714.667.1517 www.occca.org

SoundDowntown 2008 is a one-day music festival on Saturday, November 15, featuring a lineup of over 50 locally and nationally recognized bands, DJ’s and performing artists at various venues throughout the Artist’s Village of downtown Santa Ana.

Preferred advance tickets are $10 and general admission is $15 day-of. Event tickets will allow patrons to enter all local venues (some 21+) curated with entertainment. Venue capacity will range from 50 to 800, so suggested arrival times will vary. Advance tickets are now on sale.
Click to hear the psa

click here to purchase!!!
New Artists TBA!
Note: Some Performances are 21+
Please Check Schedule

Sponsored in part by the Downtown Santa Ana Business Council, OC Weekly, Karl Strauss Brewing Company, KUCI, Yelp and Splitends.

Participating Venues:

The Crosby, The Yost Theater, Bistro 400, Festival Hall, Gypsy Den, Jason’s Downtown, Memphis Santora, Proof, CSF Grand Central Art Center

Billing (More TBA):
Austin Hartley-Leonard – Bearded Baby – Blank Blue – Bobby Soul – Busdriver – Cheap Date – DJ Dan Oh – DJ Dan Sena – DJ J Hall – DJ Nobody – DJ Pubes – Faded Tequila Wormz – Flying Saucers – Free Moral Agents – Free the Robots – From Elsewhere – Inkblots – Living Suns – Look Daggers – Majic Bullet Theory – Mexican Institute of Sound – MODE – My Hollow Drum – Nalepa – Narodniks – No MSG – Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible – Nosaj Thing – One Way – Peanut – Protect Me – Satisfaction – Shepard Fairey – Sparrow Love Crew – Strange Fruit – Tea Long – Teton Songwriters – The Entrance Band – The Growlers – The Hattrix Project – The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Two Guns – Venus Infers – Zechs Marquise – Zutra

The historic—and historically progressive—Artists’ Village district in the city of Santa Ana gets into the groove this November 15, with the much-anticipated soundDowntown 2008. This day-into-night music and spoken word festival happens on Saturday, November 15, from 2pm-2am, featuring a lineup of 60+ locally and nationally recognized bands, DJs and performing artists hosted by more than a dozen of Santa Ana’s most famously intriguing landmark venues, all within a walkable radius of just a few square blocks in the downtown arts district. The streets of the area won’t be blocked off, instead audiences will be issued all-access passes that allow for a freeform, self-guided experience akin to a gallery walk, complete with printed programs containing maps and full schedules, and integrating the simultaneous performances to unfold within the vibrant nightlife of the neighborhood.

One of the Southland’s best kept cultural secrets, Santa Ana is a dynamic, evolving, and engaged arts community. The Bowers Museum, Orange County High School of the Arts, OC Weekly HQ, the revitalized Santora Building, the renovated Festival Hall and Yost Theater, dozens of independent galleries, and Rude Guerrilla Theater Company are just a few of the pillars of this naturally occurring culturati hub. The noted Grand Central Art Center with its small but salient regional museum vibe in the European kunsthalle tradition, and its edgy, ambitious programming, offers the quintessential example of the kind of cultural interplay soundDowntown 2008 is engendering, as it invites radio station KUCI to program a full night of local indie buzz bands inside its galleries, including some explosive special guests to be announced soon.

In fact, each of the dozen plus venues participating share not only the organizers’ love of progressive culture, but also their passion for the breathtaking architectural preservation and innovation that gives the community its compelling, eccentric, and almost literary flavor.

soundDowntown 2008 signals the return of Koos Art Center, whose presence laid the groundwork for Santa Ana’s cultural vibrancy, as founder and soundDowntown producer Dennis Lluy reopens Koos at the Yost, once a Mexican movie house and Vaudeville theatre, and who for soundDowntown host a bill featuring; the politically-charged, anthemic rock from Rick Rubin-produced buzz band International Noise Conspiracy; Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible, a collaborative effort in furhterance of dirty TJ techno; the Entrance Band’s psychedelic avant-freedom rock; and Free the Robots blend old-school/avant-garde hip-hop.

Meanwhile, down the block, Mexican Institute of Sound’s boundary and border-blurring indie electronica and rough-riding feel-good beach Goth from the Growlers take the stageFestival Hall; The Living Suns infiltrate the Gypsy Den with their psychedelic prog rock;Bistro 400 opens their patio to host DJ Bobby Soul and Secret Affair and Jason’s throw their antes in with eclectic indie fare. Shepard Fairey aka DJ Diabetic, and DJ Pubes hold it down at the Crosby, an archetype of the lively college town coffee house offering books, art, music, food, drinks, and the kind of genre-blurring cultural fusion that defines Santa Ana society.

Among the most lively mash-ups of old and new is are the all-star spoken word jam by Hattrix Project, dancers, and music from the Magik Bullet Theory taking place at the Grand Central Art Center; DJ Nobody and Free Moral Agents at Memphis in the instantly classicSantora Building, kicking out the louder beats amid impressive surroundings that include three floors of art galleries; and Sparrow Love Crew’s soulful hip-hop and self-described “Ghettotech” draw dance-hungry crowds at Proof.

Jason’s Downtown Restaurant will be hosting their annual Summer Salsa Celebration on Friday, August 22, 2008 starting at 6:00PM.

If you think you’re “hot stuff” with a killer salsa concoction, then bring a batch of it to the celebration and your dish can be entered into the tasting.

A bottle of “El Don” Tequila will be presented to the creator of the favorite salsa of the evening!

Jason’s Downtown Entertainment Line Up

THURSDAY – 08/21 (6:30-9:30PM)
Tammy Vigiletti
Tammy Vigiletti has been entertaining audiences for more than 20 years. She manages her family owned dinner theatre Tibbies which is located in Long Beach aboard the historic Queen Mary. Tammy is currently working on recording a cd featuring her top 10 favorite songs. Please join us for a engaging night filled with first-rate service, sumptuous dining, relaxing intimate and enchanting atmosphere, and stellar entertainment!

FRIDAY – 08/22 (7:00-11:00PM)
Ritmo, Sabor Y Estilo
Changing it up a bit this weekend, local percussionist Jesse Moreira adds a twist of Salsa to his latin jazz stylings in support of the salsa celebration-staying true to the cha chas, boleros, and bossas through dinner, and then kicking up the spicy flavor with some energetic Salsa rhythms. Come out and join the party!!!