Hey All

Here is a message from Natalie Avery, organizer of the below show. i thought it
was worth passing on.

i will be back in town with a full blown list next week.

mahalo,
pete


The same people who are
working to ban minors from music venues serving alcohol are working to
prevent neighborhood restaurants and bars from hosting music. Though we
love alternative venues in church basements and parks and rec centers -
the reality is - small restaurants and bars have traditionally
supported local music communities - think DC Space, Food for Thought,
the Warehouse Next Door.

In Mount Pleasant, a private civic
group has been able to ban live music from all the neighborhood's
licensed restaurants despite the rich history of music and culture
there. Hear Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood group that has organized
to fight back. This summer the group organized an arts and action
series to stand up for musicians rights. The series has featured the
Evens, Antelope, Head-Roc and more.

Come out Sunday for the final in the series.
Sunday July 15th 4PM
Its at Lamont Park (Lamont and Mount Pleasant Streets - near Columbia Heights
metro)


LILO GONZALES Jr of Machetres
and PASO NUEVO - Black and brown voices
of home. the re-mix. A preview of the upcoming performance at Gala
at the Tivoli.. .




Come check out the voices of Black and Latino Youth of a new generation.
Guest performances from the production's co-directors, Quique Aviles and
Sage Morgan-Hubbard.


Mount Pleasant musicians and artists need your support! Please come out and show
it!

You'll
be supporting the artists performing that day. At the same time you'll
be supporting all the right of all musicians and performers. Because
the city's Alcohol regulatory system allows groups as small as five
people to curtail the right of local bars and restaurants to host live
entertainment, artists across the city are facing face a shrinking
number of venues that have traditionally supported emerging bands and
musicians. Musicians are banned from performing in any restaurant in Mt
p because of the actions of one group, the MPNA, a private civic group.
This could happen anywhere in the city and could have major
ramifications on the city's grassroots music communities as DC
continues to gentrify and change.

So
here's the wierd thing about the show Sunday. The MPNA, the same group
responsible for the ban in Mt P, is holding a show in Lamont Park at
6PM. They have this series so that musicians can "do their community
service" and "give back" to the neighborhood. They also use the series
to defend themselves against charges that they don't support music.
"See, we host live music in the park!" they say.

Well this year, despite my strenuous efforts to avoid this
when planning Hear Mount Pleasant's series,
DPR
gave MPNA and us permits for the park at the same time. This is partly
because the MPNA has connections in the Fenty administration and did
not have to get a letter of support from the ANC commissioner as we
did. If they'd had to go through the same process as Hear Mount
Pleasant had to- the conflict wouldn't have happened because the ANC
commissioner could have alerted us. But it did. The DPR gave us a
permit for 17th and Lamont and them one for Mount Pleasant and Lamont.
DC's great combination of incompetence and cronyism at work! I worked
it out with MPNA that we would have our thing at 4. There's will start
at 6PM.

Anyway - the point is - We, (Musicians, Hear Mount
Pleasant, ME!) really really need your support! We need this event to
be crowded! We need there to show how much support there is for
musicians and more democracy in our neighborhoods.

So I really really hope you can come
out on Sunday and I really would love it if you could spread the word about
this to as many people as possible!

Thanks for bearing with my long emails! And thanks for all of your support and
help!

Love Natalie

HeAr MoUNt Pleasant ARts and ACtIoN SeRIEs....

A CALL TO ACTION
Support local Musicians against city policies that enable private citizens to
ban music in bars and restaurants!!!!



Sunday July 15th

4PM sharp

A theater event featuring Quique Aviles and
Gala Theater's Paso Nuevo Youth Program
And Music by Lilo Gonzales Jr. of Machetres



Lamont Park
( Mount Pleasant
and Lamont Sts)

(Tents, cold water, seats included!)



About the event:

Black and brown voices
of home. the re-mix. A preview of the upcoming performance at Gala
at the Tivoli .
Black and latino voices from and around d.c.
get together to speak of home, neighborhood, identity, race. poetry
and monologues. This production is a collaboration among Writers corps,
GALA Theatre's Paso Nuevo youth program, The Theatre Lab and Spoken Resistance.




Come check out the voices of Black and Latino Youth of a new generation.
Guest performances from the production's co-directors, Quique Aviles and
Sage Morgan-Hubbard.



Plus LILO GONZALES Jr of Machetres!!!!......

come check it out.



Sponsored by:

Hear Mount Pleasant ,
Mount Pleasant Main Street ,
Mount Pleasant Business
Association,

Sol & Soul, All Ways Mount
Pleasant , and Community of Christ.



About Hear
Mount Pleasant :

Hear Mount Pleasant is a grassroots
community organization dedicated to promoting arts and culture in
Mount Pleasant .
Currently, we are organizing to overturn the ban on live entertainment in
Mount Pleasant
restaurants. We believe our community artists and musicians are assets - not
problems to be curtailed and controlled. In the last month Hear Mount Pleasant
has helped build an unprecedented coaltion of churches, community groups,
businesses and residents in Mount Pleasant and beyond who are striving to build
a more vibrant, equitable and democratic cultural and civic life in our
neighborhood. In addition to gathering over 1000 signatures in support of
overturning the live music ban, we have organized numerous cultural events
featuring an array of neighborhood musicians including the Evens, Antelope,
young people from LAYC's ARts and Media House, Sol & Soul street theater
troupe, Joe Lally and more.....To learn more please go to our website
hearmountpleasant.org



About the live music ban in Mount
Pleasant :

Did you know that though the neighborhood is full of talented artists and
musicians, Mount Pleasant
restaurants cannot offer live music of any kind becauseof agreements they made
with a private civic group?



The community is organizing for change!



An unprecedented coalition of musicians, residents, community groups and
churches

has united to build a more democratic way to support our neighborhood business

district, artists, and community members to address quality of life issues all
of us care about.





For More Info write Natalieav at yahoo dot com

Check out our website hearmountpleasant.org












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