Live from the 35th Annual Abbot Kinney Festival on Sunday, September 29, 2019.  The Abbot Kinney Festival is one of the most popular festivals in Southern California, attracting nearly 150,000 attendees each year. The street festival features more than 300 vendors, 4 music stages, 5 beer garden, dozens of top food trucks, Smorgasburg food vendors and a KidsQuad with games and rides. ‪#‎AKF2019‬

LA Opera presents Opera at the Beach, a live broadcast sponsored by Los Angeles County and by Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, at the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, September 28, 2019. The season opener of La Boheme, broadcasts live in high-definition from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to the big screen at the Santa Monica Pier.

LA Opera is the 4th largest opera company in the US, and under the direction of Plácido Domingo and James Conlon has become an important force in American Opera. Presenting benchmark productions of standard repertoire as well as new and rarely-staged operas, the Company brings together world-renowned singers, designers, directors and conductors to create opera that attracts the attention of international audiences and critics.

Volunteers pick up trash  at Santa Monica Beach during Heal the Bay’s Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 21, 2019. More than 60 nations participated making this the largest volunteer day on the planet! Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) began in 1985 and has grown into a huge annual event. Every state with a coastline participates, including the Great Lakes states, and even some inland states clean river and lake shores. Heal the Bay and the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors are the Los Angeles County coordinators for the state of California's Coastal Cleanup Day. They bring out over 10,000 volunteers to clean up sites each year in L.A. County to over 50 sites along Santa Monica Bay and along inland creeks and waterways. Last year, over 12,000 volunteers from Los Angeles County joined together to pick up over 180,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches and waterway. Coastal Cleanup Day involves individuals, schools, community, and company volunteer groups. Volunteers in Los Angeles County typically collect tens of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables during a three-hour period. By filling out the trash "data cards" during the cleanup, volunteers are helping to identify and stop polluters in the future. Most people clean at the beach and on foot, but there are also special cleanups for inland creeks, boaters, kayakers, and divers. By far the most common item picked up are cigarette butts. Some of the more unusual items found in recent years were a chandelier, a briefcase full of graham crackers, and a bridal gown.

Singer/ song writer Lila Gold (@lila.gold) performs during the Twilight Concert on the Santa Mon Ica Pier on Wednesday, September 18, 2019. Raised between Sydney and NYC, Lila Gold’s musical aesthetic blends equal parts of both a mystical, playful nature and the honesty of a raw NYC disposition, giving her uniqueness beyond the realm of pop de jour. Straddling both the experimental and mainstream sides of pop with influences that span genres of  Dancehall, Pop, Hip Hop and Reggaeton, Lila Gold builds a hybrid fantasy diorama of love, depression, drugs, materialism, the internet and the desire to feel the human condition of neo-romanticism in a self-aware digital age. She cultivates an uncontrived blend of sound that parallels a deep rooted influence of Hip Hop whilst holding the bonding essence of an ultimately rebellious and dreamy escapist. 

People #rollerskate during #COASTSaMO #SantaMonica on Sunday, September 15. 2019. COAST is Santa Monica's open street celebration that cellebrates all the ways people get around without cars.

Curby the Recycling Robot visits with children at #COASTSaMO #SantaMonica on Sunday, September 15, 2019. COAST is Santa Monica's open street celebration that cellebrates all the ways people get around without cars.

Kids take #skateboard lessons during #COASTSaMO #SantaMonica on Sunday. September 15, 2019.. COAST is Santa Monica's open street celebration that cellebrates all the ways people get around without cars.