We enjoy putting on events that bring communities closer together. We feel music is a unifying force that can help break barriers and help reveal our common interests. Usually most have a certain idea in their heads of what they might expect when they go to an event, distance, parking, cost, who will attend, is the area safe, will security be cool, etc.
Upon entering the venue, the next stage of criteria may roll down your mindset based on certain preconceptions. Seeing familiar faces will immediately get you in the comfort zone, but if you don't see people that travel in your circle then you may chill in a separate area, get a few drinks and slowly ease your way into the nights festivities. Sometimes your impatience outweighs the desire to settle in so you leave to another place where you can feel most comfortable.
Unfortunately when you are not flexible to be open to an environment that is outside your sphere of comfort then you lose the opportunity to discover, that despite what we look like or what area we might be from or space that is hosting the event, that many of the conscious event participants share much of the same desires to attend: uplifting music, good people and positive environment.
From doing promotions for over 15 years in many different scenes, celebrating many types of cultures, you witness how the crowd moves, feels and flows. You hope that individuals can see the common thread that you see from the attendees as a whole, but there is only so much you can do to assist in the changing of the mindset of someone who is so fixed in their preconceptions of what they think it's going to be vs. what it really is. As they say, if you are looking for trouble eventually your going to find it.
This Wednesday at Cherry Poppin we are cultivating a special "HOODIE" event to use it as message apparel in support of the national movement for Trayvon Martin, to show that beneath the hood we all live and breath, have concerns, have families, have jobs, go to school, go to church, love music & dancing, enjoy good conversation, love to laugh, etc, etc. That what we wear or the area we travel in does not define who we are as individuals. That holding onto and being controlled by fearful thoughts about individuals and making decisions based on our own prejudices without taking the time to know them can eventually lead to dire consequences.
CHERRY POPPIN - HOODIE EVENT
(wear your hoodie)
WEDNESDAY MAR28
Djs TENDAJI LATHAN + TAILWIND TURNER
special guest DJ BRAZILIA
mc host KG SUPERSTAR
@THE ROOM (HOLLYWOOD)
1626 N. CAHUENGA BLVD
free b4 10:30/$5 after | 21 +
