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:

Instagram @IThinkYoureRadProject

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

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 ❤

 

 

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!

RSVP Here

Purchase Tickets Here

We Welcome Artist Greg Paquin to our 2014 Charity Festival!

Greg Paquin

Greg Paquin grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and has been interested in art from a very early age. Coming from collecting comic books and replicating the frames, to pursuing a degree in Graphic Design. His dabbling in Graffiti and a love for underground music led him to the rave scene and more so underground house music culture. He began dancing and eventually made his way into “The World Famous Funny Bones Crew.” After putting together a few art shows, popping battles, and doing some community work, Greg also became a part of the Calafia chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation. Sitting behind a desk wasn’t Greg’s idea of a fulfilling career, so he left Graphics behind for a career as a Tattoo Artist. Greg’s trials and tribulations have taken him full circle back to his home town. He now tattoos out of Skanvas Tattoo in Artesia, CA.

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