Update On ElektroPR

Dear Friends, Followers and supporters,

I’d like to announce that I will be taking a step back with ElektroPR for the time being. After much thought I have decided to focus on another one of my projects called “I Think You’re Rad” for the time being. ElektroPR is not ending, but it will be returning as Betty Elektro Productions and Creative Consulting in the near future. It has been an amazing 2+ years of producing live music shows, running charity events with bands and also running our annual Charity Music & Arts Festival. With that being said my 2015 Charity Music & Art Festival will be postponed until the new transition takes place and with an official name that will be announced next year.

It has been wonderful to have been able to work with many local bands, working with different local music venues and getting to know many of you there. Betty Elektro Productions and Creative Consulting will be coming in 2016 with a similar mission.

I invite all of you to check out my  I Think You’re Rad Project that is focusing on the good in Los Angeles and honoring individuals and small organizations that are making a difference in the community. This project will focus on spreading positivity, will also include some community events, a video series and also its own festival. I would appreciate the support on this project when we launch our Kickstarter campaign in a few months to help us get into production and make this a reality.

Follow I Think You’re Rad here:

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Twitter @IThinkYoureRad1

Facebook.com/IThinkYoureRad

and coming soon IThinkYoureRad.com

With much appreciation to all of you that have been part of ElektroPR and supported our work.

-Betty Elektro

Our Annual Charity Music and Arts Festival Update

Dear friends, followers and supporters. As you know for the past two years I have been running our annual Charity Music and arts festival where 100% of the door proceeds go to a local charity in Los Angeles. This coming 2015 I am not sure if our festival will happen since I will not be able to cover the costs to run this amazing event out of pocket this coming year. I do not want to halt this festival in 2015, but need your support. We need to raise $500-$600 to help cover the costs to help run this event, take care of the volunteer bands and festival volunteers, sound technician, flyers and set up. I am planning on setting up a GoFund me or something similar to help raise these funds. Remember this charity festival is by people that want to make a difference and help local organizations and I want to be able to continue doing this year to help build a sense of community in L.A. Thank you <2

Betty, Founder of ElektroPR

ElektroPR Presents live music and Our First Live Paint Artists Village at Ktown Night Market on 4/18 & 4/19!

Hey everyone, ElektroPR has their own tab under the Events section for the Ktown Night Market website!!!

I am VERY happy to announce that the band Elektro-PR will be presenting at the first Ktown Night Market outdoor stage will be: Kids Without Instruments!  They will play on Saturday 4/19 at 5:30pm!  Check out their info on http://ktownnightmarket.com/elektropr/Come out to this free event with good music and food trucks curated by the awesome and yummy Seoul Sausage Company! ‪#‎Ktown‬

 

 

 

Kids Without Instruments

 

 

ElektroPR is also curating our very first live paint artists village at the two-day event! There will be amazing local artists live painting, selling and displaying there art.

Some of the artists that will be there are:

Cary Day

Eric Valdez

Arden Fisher

Steven Gutierrez

Cynthia Alvarez

Stephanie Antonio

Kendal

Jose Arias

Jason Lee

 

 

Changes Coming In Fall 2014

Happy to announce that ElektroPR will be transforming into:

Betty Elektro Productions

“Curating Creative Events, Benefiting Communities”

 

Starting in Fall 2014 ElektroPR will be transitioning into “Betty Elektro Productions”. Our web address BettyElektroProductions.com is parked and we’re excited about that. We will be providing services to curate live music, live art and a charity/community aspect to your events. Also offering consulting services for social media marketing campaigns. We will still be producing out monthly Back Room Friday Music Nights In Koreatown and we will continue to run our charity events to help the community since that makes us who we are.

 *A pricing menu will be posted in the near future and we are happy to customize for your specific needs.

*We will post updates in the next couple of weeks and please come out to the Ktown Night Market on April 18th and 19th – this will be our first large community event that we are curating live music and a live paint artists village for!

 

 

With Love,

 

The ElektroPR Crew-Betty, Emily, Alvin and Heidy ❤

 

 

ElektroPR’s 2014 Charity Music & Art Festival Photos By Arturo Gayosso

All of these awesome shots were taken by Arturo Gayosso Photography, hire him for your next event! Contact him Here!

Photo by Arturo Gayosso Photography

BIG Announcement!

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ElektroPR 2014 Charity Music & Art Festival-Photos by Stephanie Antonio

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Arturo Gayosso: 2014 Charity Festival Photographer!

Arturo Gayosso is a friend and a Photographer based in East Los Angeles, he has photographed some of our previous events including our April 2013 Monday Night Residency at Los Globos.

 

Arturo Gayosso

Photo By Arturo Gayosso

Photo By Arturo Gayosso

 

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Photo of Nodigga By Arturo Gayosso

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Stephanie Antonio: 2014 Charity Festival Photographer!

Meet: Stephanie Antonio

Stephanie has been photographing since a camera was put into her hand. Professionally, she has photographed numerous events from folk to punk. Currently, she is the primary photographer for The Radioactive Chickenheads and has numerous self produced music and art events under her Subculture Girl Productions company. Stephanie is also a multimedia artist, performing live painting for The Chocolate Art Show, First Fridays Art show in Ventura, and other charity events.

Photo By Stephanie Antonio

Photo by Stephanie Antonio

Photo By Stephanie Antonio

Click Here to check out the rest of her work and contact her for your photography needs!

2014 Benefiting Charity: Free Arts

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How It All Began

Originally founded in 1977 as Free Arts Clinic, Free Arts for Abused Children was born out of the determination of two women who understood and appreciated the inherent therapeutic value of the arts. Carolyn Sargent, a woman who, as a child, used art to emerge from the sadness and isolation of hearing loss, and Elda Unger, an artist and aspiring art therapist. Both women recognized the need for children in foster care to have meaningful engagement with the arts. By conducting art workshops, Carolyn and Elda gave the gift of creative self-expression to children in need of positive outlets for their experiences.
Free Arts Mission & Vision
Free Arts programs inspire hope in the lives of children who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through innovative creative arts programs and positive interactions with caring adult volunteers.

Free Arts envisions a society of individuals from different communities, cultures and life experiences connecting through the healing power of art to interrupt the cycle of violence, create understanding, build self-esteem and nurture better lives.
Growing Programs
Free Arts started with a single program at a residential facility. As Free Arts grew, thousands of children participated in the Free Arts Day Program and soon thereafter the Weekly Volunteer Program. In 1993, the organization began coordinating art activities in the waiting areas of the Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, a courthouse dedicated exclusively to child abuse, neglect and abandonment cases. In 2009 we expanded to the McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center in Lancaster. Free Arts also introduced the Parents and Children Together with Art (PACT) Program in 1994 to help families in crisis.

Today, Free Arts has four thriving cornerstone programs, each of which relies heavily on the dedication of community volunteers who use art as a bridge to connect with vulnerable children.

Reaching Out Around the Country

Free Arts for Abused Children is the legacy organization for a network of affiliates across the United States. After experiencing success in delivering our program models for more than 15 years, an expansion effort was launched in 1993 when an affiliate agency was founded in Arizona. Since that time, several Free Arts affiliates have been established including Free Arts Minnesota and Free Arts NYC. Please contact them directly for information about their local programs.

Note: Out of respect for our founders, we have chosen to keep the name that reflects their original intention: Free Arts for Abused Children. However, in conversations with volunteers, partner agencies, and other supporters, we often go simply by “Free Arts”, and this is always the intention for interactions with children and families participating in programs.

We hope to see many of you at our Charity Festival on 2/22/14 and lets raise as much money as we can for the AMAZING organization!

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