Art and Music Festival at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica, CA (SULKIN / SECANT GALLERY) - Participate in a day of music, art and dancing which fills a reclaimed industrial site that has become an important venue for contemporary and alternative art, music, and culture. Sponsors including Indie 103.1 FM , Monster Energy Drink, Bud Light and Swing House will present 30 bands on 3 stages. The celebration will also include fine art, life style merchandise, clothing, food and drink, and other entertainments.

1:00 p.m. Sunday September 17
at Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404

Bergamot Station is located in Santa Monica, California, adjacent to the Santa Monica Freeway. It now includes over 30 commercial art galleries, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, design studios, an art framing shop, other related businesses, and a café. Since Bergamot Station opened, and to some extent because of its existence, this area of Santa Monica has become a growing region for arts and creative businesses. The immediate area is now home to architects, landscape architects, home furnishings stores, graphic designers, film studios, computer graphics companies and other allied professionals. Bergamot Station Arts Center has become a destination facility for this growing local creative community, as well as the Los Angeles area at large.

The Sulkin / Secant Gallery presents alternative and unexpected groupings of art; often in combination with music and performance. The Gallery's exhibition program utilizes a broad approach to the exhibition of art; incorporating a diversity of artistic methods or materials including painting, assemblage art, sculpture, functional art, photography, print-making, and computer media. This broad approach tries to expand the presentation and appreciation of art. The basis of the gallery's program also provides the inspiration for Jeff Sulkin's physical design of his gallery space. The layout was designed to reflect the scale and character of our living and working environments (rather than conform to the typical exhibit space of "four white walls"). Art becomes more connected to the drama and rhythms of everyday living.