"There
are gatherings
you don't want
to miss for the
World!
Please, review the following
information to evaluate how you
want to be part
of the XII Annual
ECO Maya Mother
Earth Day Celebration.
This year we are moving to a new
exciting location
and this will be
the first festival
to take place at
the new Los Angeles
State Historic
Park at 'The Cornfield'
in Downtown Los
Angeles."
Kathleen Roman, Public Affairs
officer
"ECO Maya will be the
first festival to be help at the LA State Historical
Park, just after
the largest earth
art project ever
made in our city,
adjacent to the
Placita Olvera
where the Hispanic
government built
the first City
Hall, the first
Masonic lodge
and the First church celebrating Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles,
next to the sacred fields of Yang-na, were the Native Americans
settle 500 A.D..."
Carmelo Alvarez, Programs Development / ECOCircle cordinator
ORGANIZATION NAME: Stage Of The Arts, Inc.
OTHER NAME ORGANIZATION IS KNOWN AS: ECO Maya Mother Earth
Day Festival
OFFICE ADDRESS: 4423 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles,
CA 90029
GENERAL PHONE NUMBER: 323 662 3750
GENERAL FAX NUMBER:323 662 3750
GENERAL E-MAIL ADDRESS: ecomaya@stageofthearts.info
WEBSITE URL: www.stageofthearts.info
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
Stage Of The
Arts, Inc.
is a grassroots
arts and humanitiesorganization,
a non-for profit
501 (c) (3) California Educational
corporation founded
June 15, 1982
in the MacArthur-Echo Park neighborhood.
Arts education
and cultural activities are
our working tools
to promote social
change and community
gathering in
the City of Los
Angeles.
We
promotes and
develop multiethnic,
international
arts and cultural
awareness in
the mass media communications.
ORGANIZATION'S
PRIMARY FOCUS
AREA: Arts & Culture-Media Organization
FEDERAL EMPLOYER
IDENTIFICATION
NUMBER (EIN): 95-4255548
CONTACT INFORMATION: Jorge Luis Rodriguez
TITLE: Executive Director
E-MAIL ADDRESS: director@stageofthearts.info
CONTACT PERSON SUBMITTING THIS EVENT PARTICIPATION
REQUEST: Kathleen
Roman.
TITLE: Public Affairs officer
E-MAIL ADDRESS: roman@afrocuba.org
EVENT INFORMATION AND NARRATIVE:
DATE OF THIS REQUEST: February 28, 2006
AMOUNT WE ARE REQUESTING TO SUPPORT OUR EVENT:
Please look at
the sponsorship
opportunities posted at
www.stageofthearts.info
EVENT NAME OR TITLE: XII Annual ECO Maya
Mother Earth
Day Festival
EVENT TYPE TO BE SUPPORTED: Community Events-Fair/Festival/Parade
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
After 11 years
celebrating
the Mother Earth
Day at District
13th we are
now relocating
the Annual
ECO Maya Festival
to the Cornfields.
Our
community had
been inspired
by the Not A Cornfield
earthwork of Lauren
Bon
and the Los Angeles
River Revitalization
plans focusing
on ecosystem
restoration.
ECO Maya Festival,
an environmental
hemispheric event,
connects the
indigenous cultural
heritage of
the Americas, in
the mecca of
diversity,
Los Angeles,
California.
A one of a kind
event, the festival
provides a
cross-cultural
nesting environment
where families
join in a two day
celebration of
the environment,
culture, entertainment
and fun.
ECO Maya Festival,
ties families
to daily quality
of life educational
opportunities
and promotes
conservation of
the ecological
and biodiversity
of our environment.
The Maya experience
provides the path
to an
environmentally
safe living and
bring awareness
of the transforming
hemispheric heritage
in the USA. The
festival brings
universal balance
through celebration
of Mother Earth
Day.
ECO
Maya Festival,
originated in
1995, is recognized
throughout Southern
California. Its
uniqueness
ties in with the
recognized Earth
Day in the
U.S. and around
the world.
ECO Maya Festival,
has earned the
support of the
Los Angeles City
Council,
the Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs
Department, local
media, corporate
sponsors and
numerous and
dedicated volunteers.
We invite you to
join in
the celebration
of humanity,
family, unity and
peace.
BEGINNING EVENT
DATE: April 22, 2006
ENDING EVENT DATE: April 23, 2006
TIME THAT EVENT BEGINS: 10 am
TIME THAT EVENT ENDS: 10 pm on Saturday 22
and 7 pm on Sunday
23.
NAME OF THE FACILITY THAT THE EVENT WILL
BE HELD AT
Los Angeles State
Historic Park
EVENT LOCATION ADDRESS:
32 acres at 1201
North Spring
Street.
Los Angeles,
CA 90012
OVERALL EVENT BUDGET: $51,000.00
EVENT FUNDING TO SUPPORT FOLLOWING AREA:
Education-Environmental
Network
GENDER PRIMARILY BENEFITING FROM EVENT SUPPORT: Both
AGE GROUP PRIMARILY BENEFITING FROM EVENT
SUPPORT:
General Population
(All ages)
ETHNIC GROUP PRIMARILY BENEFITING FROM EVENT
SUPPORT:
Hispanic
PRIMARY POPULATION/COMMUNITY SERVED OR TO
BE REACHED WITH
FUNDING FROM EVENT: General Public
THE AREAS THAT WILL BENEFIT BY THE EVENT
SUPPORT ARE:
Los Angeles County.
Focus on locations
and area plans
for the LA River
communities, City of Los Angeles District 1 and 13.
THE NEED, OBJECTIVES AND RELEVANT RESEARCH
THAT SUPPORTS THE
EFFORT:
The ECO Maya
Community Survey
of 2004 shows
the housing and
community
development issues
and concerns
of the constituency
staging this event.
See www.afrocuba.org/ecomaya.htm for data, goals
and objectives.
THE PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES WE PLAN TO BUILD
AWARENESS OF
OUR EVENT:
Media sponsor
is Channel
22 International
of Mexico. Half
page ads are
published monthly
by Contacto
Magazine and 50,000
printed handouts
are
distributed prior
to the event.
A poster and a
t-shirt promote
the
festival each
year. ECO Maya
Festival is at
top of the 10 highlighs
of the
actual brochure
of Los Angeles
Convention and
Visitors Bureau and is
listed at the "2006 Festivals" guide from the
Department
of Cultural
Affairs of the
City of Los Angeles.
STRATEGY FOR EXPANDING SUPPORT OF THE EVENT:
The corporate
positions toward
the enviromental
issues dictate
the nature
of the ECO Maya
sponsorship.
This required
a day to day
interactive participation
in the business
and
governmental
communities
to go along with
the actual funding
edge of the
environmental
issues by regional,
local and universal
dimensions.
COLLATERAL COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT MAY RESULT
FROM SUPPORT
OF THIS EVENT:
This event benefits
public opinion
with regards to
Urban Parks in
Infrastructure
Bonds in relation
to Senate Bill
153 and 1024. This
year
ECO Maya Festival
is moving to
the new Los Angeles
State Historic
Park.
The Festival
will be the
first to take place
at the new location
under the operation
of CA State Parks,
at the Cornfields,
just in front of
Downtown LA.
ACTUAL SPONSORS:
- Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles
- California
State Parks
- Channel Mexico
22 International
/ Direct TV
- Educational
Opportunity
Program of
California State University, LA
- METRO (Los
Angeles County
Metropolitan
Transportation
Authority)
THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING THIS REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION.
YOU MAY BE ALSO INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING RFQ:
Competition to Select Designer for Newest
Los Angeles Downtown
Park.
In recognition
of your past
involvement and
interest in State
Park activities
in the Los Angeles
downtown area,
the California
State Parks Foundation
and the California
State Department
of Parks and
Recreation are
very pleased and excited to share with you that the search
is about to begin for the team that will design Los Angeles
State Historic Park (formerly known as “The Cornfield”).
The goal of the competition is to select
an innovative
and talented
multidisciplinary
team to combine
landscape and
urban design,
art, architecture
and historical/
cultural interpretation
to design a concept
for Los Angeles’
newest, precedent-setting urban park. State Parks will coordinate
the competition in partnership with the Foundation, which
will provide organizational and financial resources to conduct
the competition.
The competition will take place in two phases.
In the first
phase, design
teams will provide
their qualifications
in response to
an open Request
for Qualifications
(RFQ). During the second phase, three finalists will prepare
design concepts in conjunction with a program of public meetings
where your input will be sought.
We encourage you to share this announcement
with anyone you
believe will be interested in this competition.
Some further details:
Selection - A Selection Committee comprised
of technical
and community
representatives
will review the
submitted qualifications
and select three
finalists. Each
of the three
finalist teams
will receive
a stipend of
$25,000 to enable
them to create
their conceptual
proposals. Public
meetings will
be held to gather information, ideas and feedback on the proposals
from the community. The Committee will then rank the three
teams and make recommendations to the
Director of State
Parks, who will
select the final
team. That team
will then contract
with State Parks to create a fully realized conceptual plan
for Los Angeles State Historic Park.
Design Challenge - The 32 acres of Los Angeles
State Historic
Park is the cornerstone
of the City of
Los Angeles’
plan to revitalize
the Los Angeles
River corridor
and transform this area into a hub, where all social, economic
and cultural strata can meet and interact while celebrating
the ethnic diversity and cultural heritage of Los Angeles.
Visitors to this park should experience the
environment through
interpretive
media and landscape
features that
recall the historic
events of the
region while
being given various
opportunities
for educational/
interpretive
programming for
individual visitors as well as larger groups.
Deadline for Submissions: April 17, 2006
Contact: The Request for Qualifications is
posted at www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr.
For further information
about the competition,
contact Sara
Feldman, Southern
California Director,
California State
Parks Foundation,
at 213.380.9980 or
sara@calparks.org.
Questions regarding
the RFQ must be
faxed to (916)
445-9027, subject:
“RFQ-Los Angeles State Historic Park Conceptual Design."
