The Arts Enrich Our Lives
The arts enrich our lives like no other discipline. A painting or drawing can move us to re-examine our relationship with the world and with others.
Music can make us feel things that we have never felt before. It can inspire us to new heights, it can encourage us to become involved in arenas we didn't know about. It can make us cry tears of happiness. It can make us cry tears of sadness over lost loves, cry over lost peoples, cry over lost opportunities.
Sometimes it does not take much to brighten our lives. A colorful painting, a glorious sunset, a new use of color, and different use of media.
We want Long Beach to have these inspirational pieces of art around the city to encourage us and to challenge us. Let the art challenge our preconceived notions of politics and city government. Let the arts challenge our notion of what we believe in.
We can all admit to how much music can move us. A beautiful symphony, a modern love ballad, a sad story of love lost, or the plight of the disenfranchised.
But it is much more than that! We have incredible bars and clubs that play local music. We have music festivals that are full of love and super music. And we have smaller venues that allow us to discover new bands, new music, and new people.
How do we learn about new music and art? Sometimes its our friends in a band, sometimes its a small club, sometimes its something we heard on the radio.
Popup art gives local artists the chance to express their joys, their feelings, their losses, and their passions for the rest of Long Beach to see.
Let's love one another for our ability to love, our ability to create, our ability to improve, and our ability to grow.