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.

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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

 

 

 

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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

 

 

The Birth of ElektroPR and How Music Saved My Life

I get asked a lot about how I got inspired to randomly jump into curating live music shows and I’d thought I would share what led to start my journey. I believe everything happens for a reason and you meet certain people for a reason. Back in the summer of 2010 I had stumbled upon a band called Radio Freq online and noticed they were having a show at the Silverlake lounge in June 2010. So I headed out there and fell in love with the live show. There I met Cliff Magreta since he was part of the band. I immediately had to buy their rad vinyl record they had for sale. Soon after I stayed connected with Cliff online. In November of the same year I happened to be able to go to a private party at Blake Miller home and ran into Cliff again. I decided to reach out to Cliff again and saw that he had started a project called Minutes til Midnight. I fell in love with the music and offered to help promote it online and promote future shows. I was a bit rusty since I had no idea what I was doing, but later got the hang of it and with some of Cliffs guidance and ideas I felt comfortable and fell in love with helping a local band. Cliff helped inspire my now nickname “Betty Elektro” and from there there was ideas of promoting the band with some sort of promotion name behind it. As I did things on my own something hit me in the summer of 2012 and I told myself I had to work on shows and what I didn’t know what to do, I would learn and keep going. So I did and I gave birth to Elektro-PR. It was all meant to be, it was my fate. I will never forget where everything started and that was all thanks to a cool local band and a guy that gave me a chance to learn something about myself and bring something out of me that was there all along and it changed my life. Honestly it saved my life after leaving a very unhealthy relationship with a verbally abusive man, I felt like I had nothing left. Music came into my life in an amazing way and it revived me and it reminded me that I had more to give and all the emotional scars I had, could be healed. It led me to amazing friends through starting this up and reconnecting with amazing people. Music does save lives and it saved mine.

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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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

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So awesome, thanks to Lyft LA our Charity Music & Arts Festival has been given the offer for FREE RIDES!

For those that have or don’t have the app on your mobile. Enter the coupon code JJMXRB in the payments section before taking your ride(s).

Fashion Giveaway Sponsors For Our 2014 Charity Festival!

A BIG thanks to our 2014 Giveaway Sponsors!

Kiki Van Ness has been an ongoing giveaway sponsor and we are thrilled to have small business owners support our charity events.

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Betty Elektro Interview with owner of Kiki Van Ness

Rockin’ Bones Clothing from Austin, Texas has been a supporter since 2013 and our limited goodie bags will have discount codes for their site and some bags will have some of their  items.

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Betty Elektro’s Interview with owners of Rockin’ Bones Clothing

Darling Of Mine is a new giveaway sponsor and has graciously donate a  couple of handmade pairs of earring for our limited giveaway bags. Jessica Wilkerson is the owner of this small business and sells new, vintage clothing, accessories, jewelry and artwork.

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