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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Urban Radish at Arts District

Last 13th of unlucky Friday, teachers and students went to the Art District. We met at the school at 6 PM and departed to the Art District. Our first destination was Urban Radish. Urban Radish is a grocery stores that provides good quality of local food. I ordered a veggie burger, it was fresh taste.

Next, we were heading to Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the modern art museum. However, it was closed. We were not able to visit. We left the place and walked the street. We visited a few famous stores and saw the stunning graffiti. 

Finally, we visited Angel City Brewery. They can produce fresh beer. People enjoyed their drinks, some groups played board games, and looked at the art gallery. It was a nice experience of American night activities. 

By Jessie, student at NELA

Definition of public art

Public art is art placed in areas that are accessible to the public audience. In general, it should be free for people to enjoy public art. Other than decoration of the block, some public art also serves educational purpose as illustrating ideas or historical moments in a vivid way. Most permanent mounted public art blends in well with surrounding buildings, structure, and environment, and becomes icon of the neighborhood. On the contrary, temporary mounted public art is always placed for special events or activities.

Favorite public art of the night


Reason:  Giant rose sprouts from hard concrete ground symbolizes vigor of life.


Monday, December 19, 2016

Torrance Art Museum

Last week, students joined teacher Corey for lunch at Wahoo's and walked over to the Torrance art museum. Here's what happened:



It was the first time for most of the students to try Mexican food & they loved it! Wahoo's is a great "gateway" Mexican restaurant since it's sort of a fusion on Mexican, Hawaiian, and Asian style foods. There's something for everyone there!


After lunch we walked over to the Torrance Art Museum. It's so close to our school! 


I can't believe we've never been here before! We saw the South Bay Focus exhibition featuring local professional and amateur artists. 




We had our own private tour & learned a lot about the local art community. 









Afterwards, we went to the nearby Pine Wind Garden to relax & see the koi fish (the Japanese students were surprised that we also say "koi" in English). 







It was very peaceful, and a great place to unwind after our tests. 


 By Sylvia Sunada, Program Coordinator at SB 

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Dr. Strange


This weekend our group hit the weird Matrix/Inception/Harry Potter like world of Marvel's epic hero Dr. Strange. And strange and cool it was!  


We reserved our seats for the 3:40 show in the newest Dolby Surround Sound Luxury Seating. 


The seats were super comfortable and easy to operate. 


The movie had a good mix of reviews but all were positive getting an average score of 4 out 5 stars. Before we left to eat at BJ's, we had to take pics with Dr. Strange (poster).


BJ's was crazy busy but luckily we found a table in the bar area where we ate burgers, spaghetti, salads, a few beers, a coffee whiskey martini, and ice cream.


After that it was time for us to part. My students however had other plans.They decided to go to Karaoke until midnight. My students never get tired until it's time to study but I still love them!

By Sylvia Sunada, Program Coordinator at SB