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COAST
A parade on Main Street during COAST on Sunday, Sweptember 15, 2019. COAST is Santa Monica's open street celebration that cellebrates all the ways people get around without cars.
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Remembrance Ceremony
Remembrance Ceremony at SMFD headquarters on Wednesday, September 11, 2019. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. and in Shanksville, Pa. resulted in the deaths of more than 2,700 people. Those killed included 343 Firefighters, 60 Police Officers and 8 private EMT/Paramedics totaling 411 emergency personnel. Also included in the civilian deaths were 5 people with connections to Santa Monica. In recognition of those who perished on that tragic day, the Santa Monica Fire Department annually conducts a brief and solemn remembrance ceremony consistent with the International Association of Fire Chiefs recommended protocols. All four community Fire Stations participated. ‪#WeWillNeverForget‬
Fabian Lewkowicz
American Flags at Santa Monica City Hall on September 11, 2019.
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Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra
Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra performs during the Twilight Dance Concert at the Santa Monica Pier, Wednesday, September 11, 2019. Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra pays tribute to early 1960's Jamaican Ska originators, The Skatalites. @WesternStandardTime
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Listen In
Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles stages a "Listen In," a public grief offering for people overwhelmed by climate change, at Santa Monica Beach on Wednesday, September 11, 2019.
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Save the Pier The Play
Santa Monica Pier Deputy Director and Pier Historian Jim Harris with cast perform, "Save the Pier The Play," at the end of the Santa Monica Pier on Monday, September 9, 2019. In the early 1970’s, the Santa Monica City Council voted to build a 35-acre island in Santa Monica Bay, featuring a high-rise hotel, a convention center, restaurants and other amenities. The Santa Monica Pier would be torn down and a four-lane bridge would be built in its place to provide access.The play dramatizes the fight to stop the island plan and save the Santa Monica Pier. Save the Pier The Play
Santa Monica Bicycle Campus
People learn to ride bikes at the Santa Monica Bicycle Campus on Sunday, September 8, 2019. The Bike Campus is an off-street learning area for people of all ages and abilities to become confident about their riding skills. It features a skills course where users can learn and practice bicycle riding, handling, and street skills with the aid of educational displays. The display boards are supported by a web-based bicycle education curriculum including videos of how to use the facility. The Bicycle Campus is also a resource for bicycle educators, schools and other groups that may provide bicycle education.
This off-street facility, located south of Ocean Park Boulevard at Santa Monica State Beach, is the first permanent bicycle learning area in the City of Santa Monica and the first of its kind in the greater Los Angeles Area. The Bicycle Campus provides an opportunity for people to gain the confidence to feel comfortable riding on city streets, as well as familiarity with bicycle-friendly design features that are being deployed on City streets. Promoting the facility simultaneously promotes the importance of safe road use and understanding of the new design elements. The facility has generated support from educators, parents and activists.
Vigil In Memory of Conception
Heal the Bay Community Gathering and Vigil In Memory of Conception at Santa Monica Beach, Thursday, September 5, 2019. The vigil is to honor the victims of the Conception dive boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara.
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Civic Center Multipurpose Sports Field
The City of Santa Monica Government broke ground today, August 27, 2019, on its newest sports facility, the Civic Center Multipurpose Sports Field. Slated to open in summer of 2020, the community sports field will serve Santa Monicans of all ages with space to play soccer, rugby, and lacrosse.
In tandem with the construction of the field, the City will conduct an arts-driven community engagement project to commemorate the history of the site, once the center of Santa Monica’s historic African American community known as the Belmar neighborhood.
The City will work with key community leaders, artists and Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, a prominent historian on the history of the African-American community in Santa Monica, for this project. This group will collaborate on the development of a significant community engagement process and subsequent education strategy, with the goal of increasing awareness of the legacy of the Belmar neighborhood and the impact of the forced displacement of African American community members on the greater Santa Monica community. This will result in a series of public artworks that commemorate this history, with additional artworks to be developed for surrounding areas in the future.
This project is a part of multiple investments to the Santa Monica Civic Center. More information about projects, construction, and impacts in the area is available at santamonica.gov/civiccenter.