SIPA: "Search to Involve Pilipino Americans" to Co-Sponsor Lummis Day Festival
Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) has again joined Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles as a supporting organization. SIPA will help arrange Pilipino performers for the June 1 Festival and outreach to the Pilipino community on the Festival's behalf.
SIPA(www.esipa.org) was founded in 1972 and provides health and human services as well as community economic development and arts/cultural programs for youth and families in multi-ethnic Historic Filipinotown and the Los Angeles Pilipino American community.
Designed as a community-building program, Lummis Day:
The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will celebrate the diverse cultures and history of the L.A.’s Arroyo neighborhoods with June 1 events--free and open to the public--at Lummis Home and Sycamore Grove Park. The Festival is preceded by an educational program, featuring a curriculum implemented in LAUSD schools, a program of readings and poetry workshops at Los Angeles Public Libraries and an April 26 fund-raising event at Casa de Adobe. Info on the Festival and its programs is available at www.LummisDay.org
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as the newspaper’s first city editor in 1876. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city’s first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles is presented by the Annenberg Foundation and the Autry National Center. Festival sponsors include the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Arroyo Seco, Eagle Rock, Greater Cypress Park and Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Councils, public radio station KPFK 90.7, the Arroyo Seco Journal, Poets & Writers, Inc, with the support of the North Figueroa Association, Los Angeles City Council Districts 1 and 14, the Historical Society of Southern California, Heritage Square Museum, the Highland Park Heritage Trust, the Mount Washington Association, the L.A. Poetry Festival, and other community organizations.