Help Save The Self Help Graphics Building in East Los Angeles
3808 Cesar E. Chavez Ave., LA, CA 90063 • 323 881 6444 • www.selfhelpgraphics.com

What is Self Help Graphics *& Arts?
• Founded by Sister Karen Boccalero & artists from ELA in 1973
• 30+ years helping marginalized artists’ get their work seen internationally
• Commitment to serve the emerging Latino and marginalized artistic community
• One of the major birthplaces of Chicano Art and a great contribution to the culture of Los Angeles.
• Many great artists exhibiting at the Los Angeles County Museum TODAY were nurtured through the programs of Self Help Graphics.
• Self Help Graphics is the birthplace of the Celebration of the Day of the Dead outside of Mexico.
• Self Help Graphics is studied in major universities throughout the United States for being the most important cultural center and gallery space that is community run.

What has happened?
• Without warning the Archdiocese has sold the Self Help Graphics building to developers
• We were interested in buying it, but were not allowed to bid.
• The Building is a historic building to the ELA community and the cultural life in Los Angeles
• Self Help Graphics has maintained a harmonious environment with the community, sharing the space for quincianeras, weddings, baptisms, community fundraisers, school programming and community parking---for a minimum fee to nothing.

How you can help.
• Please contact Cardinal Mahony at the Archdiocese at (213) 637-7000 extension 0. Urge Cardinal Mahony to accept a meeting with Supervisor Gloria Molina, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis and Councilmember Jose Huizar who want to talk about saving the Self Help Graphics & Art’s building.

For more information: info@selfhelpgraphics.com

I made it to one of the last shows of this play this afternoon.... very intense very intense. all i can say is that it is important. it is literature that has become cultural commentary.

i left with a lump in my throat and i think the performance was good although oddly enough i felt the second half was almost light compared to the first ... the performances were, that is. as they players got closer to us, the audience, their impact became less powerful.

someone needs to make a 1984 tv series or something.. hahahahhahahah



redcat.org/season/0708/the/1984.php




The Actors' Gang's critically acclaimed production of George Orwell's 1984 returns to Los Angeles as part of an extensive international tour that has traveled to cities across the U.S. and to Hong Kong, Melbourne and Athens. Directed by Academy Award-winning actor and Actors' Gang artistic director Tim Robbins, 1984 tells of a world where people fear that their opinions cannot be expressed freely, where citizens are monitored at the government's discretion, where leaders are not held accountable for their deceptions, and where perpetual war is waged against an unseen enemy.
Adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan from the novel by George Orwell
Directed by Tim Robbins