The Nickel Market @ Spring & 5th, DTLA

The Nickel Market is a new weekly Sunday market that hosts local DTLA and Los Angeles based vendors featuring arts, crafts, fashion, vintage, furniture, home goods, handmade leather, jewelry and other great items + Live Music on most weeks! The market creates a synergy with already popular Farmers Market that happens every Sunday, increasing the daytime shopping population for the entire neighborhood. With the increased traffic and mix of creative vendors this new market is already helping to draw new customers to the existing neighborhood shops and restaurants.

Join us every Sunday from 9am to 2pm,  bring all your friends as they help back our streets and help create more community in DTLA. Vendor Applications are OPEN, please apply to be a vendor or simply attend and do some shopping! The market hours are every Sunday from 9am-2pm right in the street in the heart of DTLA! 5th Street between Spring Street and Main Street (Use125 w. 5th Street, 90013 if you need for GPS).

FREE, Family Friendly, come take a walk in your neighborhood. Organized by your neighbors with support from the Southland Farmers Market and the Historic Core BID! www.TheNickelMarket.com Sept.18, 25 Oct.2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov.6, 13, 20, 27 Dec.4, 11, 18

Artopia 2014 – May 15 2014 – Grand Central Market

Get tickets: http://ticketf.ly/1gMdLLF

L.A. Weekly is excited to confirm the artist lineup for this year’s Artopia! Taking place Thursday, May 15 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Grand Central Market, this year’s Artopia will focus on L.A.’s vibrant arts and culture scene, with a special focus on downtown, as well as celebrate the L.A. Weekly’s People Issue.

Curated by art critic (and L.A. Weekly contributor) Shana Nys Dambrot, this year’s Artopia features live mural painting by artists HUEMAN, Jim Mahfood and Jason Shawn Alexander, sculptural installations by Ramiro Gomez, a 3D Blacklight Experience from Debi Cable as well as a high-fashion peep show from the Bohemian Society featuring special guests Alexey Steele, Mika Mae Jones, Tyson Lee Smyer, Cielo Garcia, Kaylani Lei and Annie Cruz. Creative collective dublab will be curating a music installation including multiple DJ stations and performances. The Peach Kings and The Record Company will be performing live.

Curator Shana Nys Dambrot describes the vision of Artopia as experiential, saying: “We are entranced by the allure of experience. Art is a visual language, of course; but art, like life, is much more than pictures. Artopia is a place where art is everything and everything is art — painting, yes of course, and fashion (especially fashion), architecture, bustling crowds, film, food, open bars and dance music. Society is a fantastic spectacle of simultaneity, immersion, transgression, beauty, history, surprise, decadence, and most importantly, other people. And since we gather to celebrate the new People Issue, for Artopia we’ve assembled a family of performers, models, painters, designers, technicians, and deejays to weave a multi-sensory experience of after-hours culture in an historic location, with freehand mural-making, interactive projections, peep shows, body-printing, sculptural installations, and living dolls — all with a particular nod to the seduction of the handmade and the extravagances of the people who make downtown L.A. a haven for the urban avant-garde.”

General admission tickets are $30 and include entrance to the event as well as wine and beer. For more information and updates on Artopia and more information on the participating artists, check out laweekly.com/artopia

See you there!