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4 | July 20, 2016 | Malibu surfside news news
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Pop-ups help hype upcoming arts festival
Alex Vejar, Assistant Editor
Anticipation is building
for the 45th annual Malibu
Arts Festival, which will
open to the Malibu community
July 30.
Over the past few
months, the Malibu Chamber
of Commerce and those
involved with the festival
have been giving the community
small tastes of what
they should expect with art
pop-ups called “Made in
Malibu.” The first appeared
in early May at the Malibu
Lumber Yard.
But the brief installations
ventured outside of Malibu
Wednesday, July 13, with
a one-day show appearing
at Westlake Brewing Company.
The brewing company,
along with Westlake
Village-based Aldabella
Winery & Tasting Room,
is to provide some of the
beverages for the arts festival,
said Kristine Bocchino,
chairwoman-elect of the
Malibu Chamber of Commerce.
Because some of the artists
showing at the festival
later this month hail from
areas such as Westlake
Village, Agoura Hills and
Thousand Oaks, Bocchino
said it made sense to hold
a pop-up outside of Malibu.
“We wanted to give a
little love to those over the
hill,” Bocchino said.
One of the artists at last
week’s pop-up was Malibu
native Lily Lambert, who
showed pieces from two
of her series, “Energy” and
“Pike.” Both series depict
a variety of colors, but the
“Pike” paintings have an
especially unique meaning.
Malibu native Lisa Lambert stands below her paintings,
which appeared at the second “Made in Malibu’ art
pop-up on Wednesday, July 13, at Westlake Brewing
Company in Westlake Village.
Photos by Alex Vejar/22nd Century Media
“The ‘Pike’ series [is]
if fish could dream, what
would those dreams look
like,” said Lambert, who
will show her art at the
Malibu Arts Festival for the
first time.
Displaying a different
type of art was Malibu
resident Lenise Soren, who
just moved to Point Dume.
Soren works with healing
crystals, making jewelry
out of them, as well as providing
healing sessions
with crystals in her new
Point Dume showroom.
At the festival, Soren will
If You Go
What: Malibu Arts
Festival
When: July 30-31
Where: Pacific Coast
Highway and Civic
Center Way
More info: www.malibu.
org.
produce a “wellness village,”
she said, with artists
that utilize acupuncture,
aroma therapy, yoga, physical
training and more. Soren
also said four performances,
all involving crystals, will
take place in the village.
Pictured are various crystals that Malibu resident Lenise Soren will show to arts
festival attendees. It will be her first time showing at the festival.
Scott Lindner stands under his paintings of horses at the pop-up. While not a resident
of Malibu, he will show his work for the second time at the arts festival.
It will also be Soren’s
first time at the Malibu Arts
Festival.
“I’m very supportive of
what they’re doing and the
festival,” Soren said of the
Malibu Chamber of Commerce.
Bocchino said at this
year’s arts festival, Malibu
resident Tim Lawrence —
known to many as Fireball
Tim — will have a “Cars as
Art” display at the front of
the festival that will feature
45 classic vehicles. Lawrence
is to conducting interviews
for his YouTube channel
as well, Bocchino said.
Before July 30, a third
and final “Made in Malibu”
pop-up will once again appear
in the Malibu area, this
time for two weeks. Festival
organizers said the third
installation will be open
soon.