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3-D Haunted House Craft! • Oct. 19th, 2016

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: 3-D Haunted House Craft! 
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Rise Up, Move Ahead! 

Build your own little purple piece of real estate at CraftNight tonight, it’s 3-D Haunted Houses!!! Assemble it yourself, lots of foam pieces AND lots of EXTRA foam pieces I’ve gathered from craft travels. I’ve got eyeballs, witches, cats, bats, ghosts and MORE! You can really dress this up, makes a great table centerpiece or place to hide your hide-a-key, or part of the fascinator you’ve always wanted, or throw it in the city fountain and watch it float!

Halloween is on the horizon, don’t be caught without decorations, most notably, the aforementioned one above that is a LOT of fun to make! Halloween decor is the best, because it’s not smarmy, overly sentimental, too scrumply, or outrageously expensive. Some of it comes with complicated wiring, electronics, fog, or lights. It’s the time of year where green scaly hands and snot are in fashion! The more discombobulated you can make your guests with frightful accents, the better! This is also the time for weirdo food items, stuff’s allowed to be atrocious and delicious at the same time. What’s more, at the end of this month, you can basically knock on ANYONE’S door at night, say “Trick or Treat” and they give you candy… or a rock… or cough drops… hopefully candy. Tonight we’ll have some candy in a candy dish that, if you want, we can teach you how to make at CraftNight LAB next week on the 26th. It’s special. Read below for more info.

Also next week at 9pm it’s BYOPumpkin carving, so get ready for that, get your pumpkins together, and come on over where we’ll have knives, tarps and candles! Who let’s you get drunk and play with knives? CraftNight!!!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain


 

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

Posted by on October 19, 2016 in Assembly Craft

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3-D Halloween Lanterns! • Oct. 5th, 2016

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Halloween Lanterns with Optional battery candle for purchase! 
$3 Donation Please (if you want a battery-operated tea light, that’s another buck!) 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Solutions for a Small Planet 

screen-shot-2016-10-12-at-3-22-23-pmThe light begins to wane ever slowly every fall. Though we are quite a few weeks away from Daylight Savings, here could be they way for you to avoid the Headless Horseman while making your way through the darkened thicket on your way home.

Make yourself a 3-D Halloween Tissue LANTERN! It’s a luminous and darling craft for your Halloween decor collection 2016!!! I have battery-operated tea lights for sale that you can put inside your DIY Halloween decoration to create a colorful and eerie glow.

Your kit features cardboard frames, tissue paper sheets in autumn colors and sheets of acetate to make them sturdy and stable. These lanterns are perfect for hanging from the porch on fright night or for using as party centerpieces for your evening dinner soiree.

Includes tissue paper squares and acetate sheets, and I’ll have all kinds of foam decorations, gems and other goodies for you to embellish your lantern to your heart’s content.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain


 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 17th at Akbar it’s BET YER BOTTOM BINGO HALLOWEEN STYLE!!!! >>> 8pm to 10pm at Akbar • Creepies, Crawlies, Drinkies, Prizies, Numbers, Balls, Cuties, Crazies, you don’t want to miss this one, it’s oh so sinister, bone-chilling, spine-tingling FUN!!!

October 19th 9pm Akbar – 3-D Foam Haunted Houses – A Fan favorite!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

Posted by on October 12, 2016 in Assembly Craft

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Halloween Bracelet Night • Oct. 5th, 2016

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This Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Sassy Halloween Bracelets!
$3 Donation Please
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Stronger than Dirt!

Embrace the season, the Halloween crafts are HERE! We have these bracelets that you will want to wear!

Align yourself with nature and be untamed! Revel in the light, the wind, the hunt for pumpkins, the taste of crisp apples and hot tea!

Not only that, but visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day!
In the words of Wendell Jones (a big fan of ours, which means we’re a big fan of his)

“For those of you who have never experienced it, a bunch or artists, inspired madmen and women and friends from all over the City of Angels create one video or spooky art project a day for all of October.
Each day you check in to be amazed. This is feminist friendly, LGBT positive, people of color loving, subversive creativity. And you don’t want to miss it!”

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

 

 

Posted by on October 5, 2016 in Jewelry Craft

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CraftNight LAB Moved to September 28th!

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We decided that we’d like to move the CraftNight LAB Owl Project to September 28th! 

Here’s all the info, same news, different date! Why? We realized that just under two weeks isn’t quite enough time to get the word out about this really awesome event that we can’t wait to do with you! We wanted to give you an extra week to get a friend to come on over and try this VIP experience, unique and not available anywhere else in the entire city of LA!

Read All About It Here and get your tickets!

 

 

Posted by on September 20, 2016 in SPECIAL EVENT!

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Assortment Crafts • September 14th, 2017

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This Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT. 
Project: Assortment Crafts! Coloring or assemblage! 
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials: Akbar, for Successful Living!
>>>CraftNight LAB coming up September 21st! Earlier! Fancier! 12 Spots Available! Keep Reading… 

Variety is important to your creativity routine. Doing different crafts keeps your interest peaked and your mental and physical faculties SHARP! That’s why I’m offering up more treasures from the vault in September.

  • I’ve got some NEW coloring sheets I found that will turn your mind inside out with their exciting complexity!
  • There are also 3-D felt kits that are truly wondrous! The box makes the kit look like some tiny little thing, when in actuality, the project is the size of a small pillow! Amaze!
  • Also I’ve got some scratch canvases, some black velvet mini posters for coloring, and really just a lot of cool stuff.

September is the last month before we begin the last quarter of the year, so let’s savor these last weeks of summer before the equinox kicks in, as the tomato harvest dwindles, and the apples are at their tastiest. The lowriders have returned to cruise Whittier Boulevard, nocturnal urban skunks galumph up and down Echo Park’s neighborhood street curbs, and the churro man in Boyle Heights fries and distributes churros as he whistles the same tune his grandfather used to whistle.

CraftNight would like a moment to welcome the Rams back to LA, and their first game was just terrible, but whatever. If you don’t care about football, CraftNight would also like to welcome the brand new spire on Wilshire Grand Center, making it a whole 81 feet taller than the US Bank Building! If you don’t care about football or buildings, continue reading below, maybe something will catch your eye.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain


 

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JUST IN TIME FOR IN FALL: CRAFTNIGHT LAB SEPTEMBER 21st ***12 TICKETS ONLY!*** 
 Starting 7pm, a FANCY early evening VIP craft experience with hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, high-end supplies and step-by-step guidance by JP to make a beautiful fall owl note valet with felt flowers!  Find out more HERE!!! 

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SEPTEMBER 26th 2016 • AKBAR • 8pm to 10pm >>>> BET YER BOTTOM BINGO!!!! Six fifty cent sessions of Girls, boys, fall season balls, numbers, gambling, excitable yelling, cocktails, music, mirth! Tell us you’re on the way…

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Feminist Acting Class starting this Friday at the Womens Center for Creative Work
Feminist Acting Class is a series of experiments to determine if the form of an acting class can be made feminist, in addition to the content. Part art project, part intellectual experiment and part dynamic physical practice, Feminist Acting Class wants to expand the roles for women, transgender and nonbinary people in theatre and the way that we approach these roles. Taught by Gina Young: queer feminist playwright, director and performer whose work has been seen all over the US and Europe!
More Info

 

 

Posted by on September 13, 2016 in Assembly Craft, Multi-Variety Craft

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