Pico Block Party: Empowering Youth Voices!

The Conservancy will be participating in Pico Block Party: Empowering Youth Voices! This family-friendly artistic festival features youth-led art-making workshops, performances, open studios with resident artists, exhibitions, food trucks, and other creative activities.

The Pico Block Party series grew out of 18th Street Arts Center’s in-depth community outreach programs, including its bilingual neighborhood oral history project, CultureMapping90404.org. That project spurred the creation of a Neighborhood Advisory Council in 2018 that helped shaped the content for this Pico Block Party along the theme of “Empowering Youth Voices.” With this festival, we celebrate the many Santa Monica high school and college-age youth deeply invested in political activism and organizing, and young artists throughout our community and beyond.

For a complete list of the art workshops, performances and food offerings, and to register for the free event, click here.