The Historic Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows
2223 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92104
For questions about the event or to RSVP for media preview call 323.350.4980 or email Eric Wong
(Event Program, List of Artists, Event Program (download), Press Release (download), 2017 edition photographs below)

Expect the unexpected! Very much like the old happenings, there will be a number of spontaneous and interactive performances by Patricia Maldonado, Mitchum Todd, Flavor Company Dance, Niara Eustace, Blue Buddah, David Lofton, The People’s Opera House Project, Chris Vannoy with Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, and special guest poets, Live painting and video by Victor Villa, “Chalkda” Video Preview by Marianne Goyette @ The HUB, and much more. Additionally, Andre Urbano’s “The Storybook Monologues” will involve a performance dealing with a series of strangers telling stories of lesser-known fairy tales among the halls of the hotel, and domestic happenings with Stu Schwartz and Fred Marinello in room #110 entitled 'Morning Routine’ and ‘Scars and Teeth’.
 
Friday, Dec 14, 7 - 10 PM (Opening night celebration and priority access to the artists’ rooms)
6:00PM – 7:00PM: Media & Collectors Preview
7:00PM - 8:00PM (the Burgundy Room): “Q&A: Commissioning Art with Collateral Collective”
7:30PM - 10:00PM (Room 1946) performance every hour in 30-minute increments
Room 1946: An interactive exhibit that allows small groups of guests to explore the dreamscape of a stressed day worker.
"Reminiscing in the colors of their old stomping grounds, a group of friends realize the difficulty of reconnecting with each other after spending so many years apart." Performance written by Andre Urbano
8:00PM - 8:30PM (the Bourbon Room): Spoken Word with Chris Vannoy; Beat Poet Laureate of the United States, with Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, and special guest poets.
8:00PM - 8:30PM (Room #116): Interpretive dance performance by Patricia Maldonado
8:30PM - 9:00PM (Room #116): Music with Blue Buddah and David Lofton of OMB San Francisco
10:00PM - 1:00AM: After Party (free with fair admission)
@ The HUB hosted by Twisted Taps across the street from the Lafayette Hotel, located @ 2302 El Cajon Blvd, SD, CA 92104
10:15PM - 11:45PM: A New High, a San Diego based indie band with Jon Jones (Guitar, Vocals), Kent Lawrence (Keyboards, Vocals), and Brian Baxter (Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Vocals).
 
Saturday, Dec 15, 12:00PM - 7:00PM
12:00PM - 1:00PM (Room #116): “The Gift," informal conversations in a hotel room, on the gift of art and the art economy, with San Diego artists, collectors, and art professionals. Guests are encouraged to participate!
12:30PM - 10:00PM (Room #1946): performance every hour in 30-minute increments
Room 1946: An interactive exhibit that allows small groups of guests to explore the dreamscape of a stressed day worker.
"Reminiscing in the colors of their old stomping grounds, a group of friends realize the difficulty of reconnecting with each other after spending so many years apart." Performance written by Andre Urbano
1:00PM - 2:00PM (Room #116): Flavor Company Dance performance
1:00PM - 1:45PM (the Bourbon Room): An Introduction to Jaime Jimenez PhD, book “Semiology for Artists and Designers”
2:00PM - 2:45PM (the Bourbon Room): Spoken Word with Chris Vannoy; Beat Poet Laureate of the United States, with Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, and special guest poets.
3:00PM - 3:30PM (Room #116): Performance by Niara Eustace
3:30PM - 4:00PM (Room #116): Interpretive dance performance by Patricia Maldonado
4:00PM - 4:45PM (Room #116): Spoken Word with Chris Vannoy; Beat Poet Laureate of the United States, with Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, and special guest poets.
4:00PM - 5:00PM (The HUB): Jaime Jimenez PhD will be discussing his book “Semiology for Artists and Designers”
5:00PM - 5:30PM (stairway entrance off main hallway): Interpretive dance performance by Patricia Maldonado
5:00PM - 6:00PM (Room #116): “The Gift,” informal conversations in a hotel room, on the gift of art and the art economy, with San Diego artists, collectors, and art professionals. Guests are encouraged to participate!
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (the Burgundy Room): “Q&A: Commissioning Art with Collateral Collective”
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (the Bourbon Room): Blue Buddah and David Lofton of OMB San Francisco
8:00PM - 8:45 PM (Room #116): Pall Jenkins of Black Heart Procession and Three Mile Pilot solo performance
 
Closing Party 10:00PM - 12:00AM (free with fair admission)
@ The HUB hosted by Twisted Taps across the street from the Lafayette Hotel, located @ 2302 El Cajon Blvd, SD, CA 92104
 
The movie “It's Gonna Blow!!!: San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996” by Bill Perrine will be screened on multiple large screen TV’s to finish off the night. A feature length documentary film about San Diego's innovative 90s DIY music scene and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream. The movie chronicles a period when San Diego was touted as 'the next Seattle'. A motley community of musicians with a DIY ethos and an aversion to mainstream culture developed their idiosyncratic sounds in the isolation of San Diego but soon found themselves at the center of bidding wars and expense account lunches. What happened when the outcasts from the sticks became the next big thing?

Hotels/Motels Artists:
Alexander Salazar, Andre Urbano, Carolyn Brann, Cassandra Schramm, CM Curatorial, Collateral Collective, Colleen Veltz, Distinction Gallery, Edwin Nutting, Ellen Lane, Grace Gray Adams, James Watts, John Geary, Larry Caveney, Lynn Schuette, Michael Walrond, Mikaela McLeish, Nathaniel Clark, Nicole Deline, Patricia Maldonado, Press Works Art, Rebecca Romani, Richard ChauDavis, Maria ChauDavis, Richard Stewart, Stephanie Mansolf, Anna Feil, Nidia Castaldi, Sarah Tell, Thumbprint Gallery, Bryan Ricci, Chris Trueman, Christopher Kuhn, Claudia Morales Mccain, Devon Tsuno, Erin Morrison, Gregory Siff, Jackie Leishman, Julian Lombardi, Mhiachnoiti, Todd Smith,  Niara Eustace, Flavor Company Dance, Mitchum Todd, Victorio Villa, Chris Vannoy, A New High, Elizabeth Ayerle, Blue Buddah, David Lofton, Anqi Liu, Tiange Zhou, Brian and Ryan, Tony Allard, The People’s Opera Project, Marianne Goyette, Eric Wong, Barfo, Bob V, Eyegato, Nonie Cruzado, Chris Trueman, Erin Morrison, Devon Tsuno, Mhiachnoiti, Claudia Morales McCain, Christopher Kuhn, Bill Perrine, Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, Denise Lacarra, Pall Jenkins, Legend Nano Gallery Artists: Michael Snodgrass, David Krovblit, Regina Foster, Alexandra Eldridge, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Andrew Holder, Chuck Thomas, Michael Maas, Lucy Schappy, David Rudolph, Conrad Kern, Stacy D’Aguilar, Dan Mcstocker, Kristi L. Stout, Dr. Steven Wade Adams, Andrew Kaplan, Xenia Mateiu, Ashley Binder, Leah Siegal, G. Kim Hinkson, Stu Schwartz, Fred Marinello, and more TBA!

Parking
Metered and residential parking on both sides of the street surrounding the hotel, and on the opposite side of El Cajon Blvd.
Additional Parking is available in the parking lot of New Vision Christian Fellowship, 4353 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92103 (Access to parking is on Meade Ave). They have generously opened their parking lot for this event and assume no liability.
If the lot is full, there is plenty of public street parking in the immediate area.