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CraftNight LOVE-IN • Feb 13th, 2019

February 13
It’s here it’s here, it’s finally HERE!

CRAFTNIGHT! AKBAR! • Wed. Feb 13th, 2019 • The LOVE-IN

We’re havin’ a LOVE-IN, where LOVE is the thing, here’s how it works:

Every crafter gets a bag. You write your name on your bag and put it up on the wall in the dance floor. You GET VALENTINES from your fellow crafters, and you make valentines for them! You also get TREATS from the Craft Captain (ya, that’s me). Also if you wanna, make valentines for people in your life that could use some love.

I’m a romance activist. I don’t think love’s just for suckers, or kissy people, or foppish lotharios wearing fancy scarves. I think love’s for everyone, since it’s such a strange, rare and fantastic option for showing care and consideration. Love is for everyone, from those who take things hard, to those who don’t notice anything at all. Love’s for blowhards and wallflowers, love’s for the downtrodden and the highbrows, love’s for the ones to don’t want any to those who have it all.

Love is even for you from yourself. That’s why you should come on over and treat yourself to my expertly collected and curated valentine craft scraps to make ANY KIND OF VALENTINE YOU WANT. I mean it. We can explore the full gamut of emotions with all the good time gee gaws I’ll share with you, it’ll be a paper scrapper’s paradise.

This twirling planet, it’s teeming with the unlikeliness of us, why not reach out to each other with sweet colors, sayings, and hearts?

See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain

FEBRUARY FUN YAHHHHHH!!! (Upcoming Thangs)

  • February 20th – Paint-a-Penguin!
  • February 25th – JP Hosts “Bet Yer Bottom Bingo!” • Akbar • 7:30pm
  • February 27th – Shrinky Dinks! CraftNight Winter CLASSIC!

The CraftNight Love-In! It’s HERE! Whole lotta lovin’ Here’s a handy LINK!

JP Happy Hours: Mondays from 4pm to 9pm, come in to Akbar and enjoy an authentic lesbian cocktail at the world’s best gay bar on the corner of Sunset and Fountain!

 

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Protest Poster Party for Women’s March 2019 • Jan 16th, 2019

January 15

CRAFTNIGHT! AKBAR! • Wed. Jan 16th, 2019 • Protest Posters!

This week, CraftNight opens its doors for Teachers who need to refresh their strike signs, as well as people prepping for the LA Women’s March happening in DTLA this upcoming weekend (JAN 19th).

We’ll have ALL the sign supplies for you to use, from markers to paints, cardboard etc. so that you can show your displeasure with the DUMBNESS of the LA Unified School District, the wall-obsessed non-negotiator cheeto in chief, and many other items in the catalogue of terrible currently crumbling the city and the nation.

There are so MANY reasons to march, so many reasons to make a sign, like:

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg FEEL BETTER NOW PLEASE THANK YOU
  • We Stand With Our LA Teachers
  • End the F*CKING ShutDown Already
  • FBI in Yer Eye Collusion-Crazy CheetoHead
  • The BLUE WAVE is coming! Gonna drown you 2020 (vote!!!)
  • Walls are NOT the Answer
  • Republicans Raised the Federal deficit to ONE TRILLION
  • Trump Family = Russian Nesting Dolls

See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain

Learn more on FB Event and RSVP if you can, it helps me figure out how much to spend on supplies!

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES (in January)

  • Jan 23rd – Welcome Winter Solstice Wreath Craft 
  • Jan 30th – Chinese New Year Craft
  • February 6th – Heart-Shaped Dream Catcher
  • February 13th – The CraftNight LOVE-IN!!! (Special Event!)

BET YER BOTTOM BINGO January 28th!!! Wanna know more? Here’s a handy LINK!

I’m in a Show (puppeteering) at Son of Semele in Jan/Feb! Come SEE! Sibyl wrote it, Katie’s building all the things, everybody’s SO GOOD!  

> GREATER THAN | C-105 Collective
A woman who has it all just wants one teensy thing more, but her greed sets off a cosmic chain of events that she cannot control. This original musical takes us from an underwater ballet in the deepest parts of the ocean to somewhere beyond the sky and reminds us of what is right in front of us. Find Out More/Get Tix

Comin’ Up in February: La Sirena Loteria!!!

JP CALLS LOTERIA @The Mermaid!!! February 5th!!! 9pm – Wanna know more? Here’s a handy LINK!

 

Posted by on January 15, 2019 in Painting Craft, SPECIAL EVENT!

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NOV 21st, 2018— NO CRAFTS TONIGHT! Instead, have PIE at Akbar! CraftNight will continue next week with a Pasta Menorah Craft just in time for Hanukkah!

November 21
Akbar’s back in the kitchen for our tenth annual Pie with hostesses FELONY DODGER & SARAH PROBLEM who will be on hand selling delicious pies either whole or by the slice. Arrive early for prime selection.
8PM until CLOSING

FREE!!!

Serving tasty beats and treats all night long: CHRIS BOWEN • MATEO SEGADE • MIKE ETC • SINDRI

MENU: Pumpkin, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Pecan, Pecan Cheesecake

Once again this year PIE is hosting a food drive. Feel free to bring a can of food (fruits, veggies, broth, etc…), cake, pancake or flour mix, boxes of stuffing or mashed potatoes, etc… to donate to those in need and receive $1 off your pie purchase.

HOSTS: BLAKE JACOBS, STEPHAN HORBELT, MICHAEL NICOLO

Front Room Maitre d’:
CHRIS BOWEN (Bears in Space)

 

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Popsicle Stick Bird Bath • August 29th, 2018

August 27

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 at Akbar ’round 9ish to midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT! 
SPECIAL EVENT>>> SELF DEFENSE CLASS w/Cory Klink starts at 8pm!
Craft Project: Popsicle Stick Bird Feeder
*******$4 PABST/TECATES • $5 Cocktail Special: Your Complete Castle of Cocktails!
*********$3 suggested donation, please!

I’m BAAAAAACCCKKKK!

After three weeks of galavanting all over Europe, I am pleased to report that I’m relaxed, tan, and EXCITED TO SEE YOU!!!

Now remember, we’ve got QUEER SELF DEFENSE CLASS with Cory Klink at 8pm! Here’s more info, please come support this amazing martial arts teacher and learn some valuable techniques keeping yourself prepared and safe in our big crazy world of even crazier humans.

What craft do I have for you this week? I was thinking about the BIRDS and how they get hungry. We’ll be making bird feeders out of popsicle sticks! It’s easy as pie, I have a diagram for you and all the required popsicle sticks to make this work. It kind of looks like a lil’ raft, but then you build upward with your sticks so that it makes a cool box-type structure, and you’ll tie some yarn to it so it can hang from a tree or the rafters, or wherever birds like to hang out.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

UPCOMING: Sept 5th: Paper Bag Puppets, Sept. 12th: Printing Press Crafts, Sept. 19th: Sassy Apple Frame Craft, Sept 26th: Halloween Bracelet Craft, October>>>> HALLOWEEN CRAFTS ALL MONTH PLUS SPECIAL SURPRISES!!!!

CrafNight! 9pm • Wednesdays • Akbar >>> 4356 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90029 >>>>>> www.craftnightlosangeles.com

 

Posted by on August 27, 2018 in Assembly Craft, Multi-Variety Craft, Painting Craft, SPECIAL EVENT!

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First Craft of the Year!!! • January 10th, 2018

January 05

JANUARY 10th, 2018 DOORS OPEN EARLY 7pm!!!! 
****8pm Special Workshop by Linda Santiman and Lauren Costine  
*****9pm Sign-making and cocktail-drinking continues!!! 
******$3 donation for supplies, purty pleeze!  
>>>>RSVP HERE! (Help us figure out how many supplies to bring!)<<<<<<

New Year and bet your bippy that we’re comin’ in HOT!!! It’s a Protest Poster Painting Party for the upcoming Los Angeles Womens March! Come on in without a THING and we’ll give you all the supplies to make yourself seen and heard when you go downtown to holler!

Our sign painting salons get kinda crowded, so we’re opening at 7pm (take advantage of Akbar’s lovely happy hour prices) for earlybird access to make your sign. We know last year was a total shit show, and we know it’s just gonna keep coming at us, this is why Linda and Lauren will be teaching a one-hour workshop at 8pm called “Resistance – How to be an Activist Without Losing Your Mind.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m really into THE TRUTH. And truth is at a premium. Whatever your feelings about the GOP and the President, information is being distorted, and it’s hard to keep a level head. The role of a free press in our democracy is vital, it’s our watchdog on behalf of the public’s interest, let us not be asleep at the wheel about this. There is a lot of messed up stuff about this weird country, but our First Amendment Right is one of the best things we ever did for ourselves.

WHY do we protest? Does it make a difference? YES IT DOES. Progress is slow, politics is frustrating, tedious, and a major pain in the ass, it takes forever. We are pushing the papers, we’re making the calls, and we’re doing the work. But we’re also THE PEOPLE, and we are the ones who will also be voting, and our discontent must be VISIBLE. Those who are elected serve us, our elected officials need a goddamn reminder that we are awake and watching.

We also need to get out there for ourselves, for each other, in solidarity. We do have power, and a great way to remember that is by seeing just how many of us are willing to spend our hard-earned leisure time continuing to protest the dumbness that is the current GOP.

So this week I’m offering you the most FUN way to work on your discontent. Get your butt in here and make a sign, we need you.

There will be treats, there will be paint, there will be cocktails, handouts, education, camaraderie, cohesion, and resolve!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

WINTER SESSIONS  

JAN 17th – Dr. Sketchy figure drawing class at 8pm, Winter Snow Craft at 9pm!

JAN 21st • Akbar • 7:30pm to 10:30pm • BET YER BOTTOM BINGO!!!! • WINTRY WEATHER EDITION We’re skating on thin ice with the BEST deal in town for your gambling whims, fat boozy wintry wonder prizes for your slush fund! >>>RSVP HERE!!! 

JAN 21st – Crafts 9pm • Akbar • Winter Sessions Craft TBA

JAN 31st – Crafts 9pm • Akbar • Winter Sessions Craft TBA

FEB 7th – Valentines for POLITICIANS (Craftivism)

FEB 14th – Special Event! The Great CraftNight LOVE-IN (Prizes! Treats! Love!)

 

 

Posted by on January 5, 2018 in Painting Craft, SPECIAL EVENT!

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