Nevermore Free Poetry Festival & Haunted Valley Bus Ride
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Free Poetry Festival & haunted Valley bus ride! A celebration of the Valley via Edgar Allen Poe haunting off the METRO Orange Line NEVERMORE is coming!
It’s Poe season...
Join NEVERMORE in celebrating Edgar Allan Poe and the San Fernando Valley on October 29th! Our Poetry Hub is free and open to the public - running 11am-6pm, it is for all ages and includes crafts, face painting, literary booths, poetry readings by 40 LA poets, poetry give-a-ways, a graffiti wall, live drawing, Virtual Reality stations, and a food truck! Costumes highly encourag
ed, and there’s even free parking. Get your METRO Day Pass join the Haunted Valley Bus Ride, traveling from the Hub along the METRO Orange Line. Part haunting, part community storytelling project exploring neighborhood change and development, this will be an experience unlike any other this Halloween. You will discover hidden cultural treasures, engage with local immersive performers, and explore the visceral power of art as never before. Guided tours run every hour 11am-3pm - tix at bit.ly/nevermorepoet, free community tickets available. October 29th 11 AM - 6 PM
Van Nuys Civic Plaza, 14400 Erwin Street Mall, Van Nuys 91401 - free Saturday parking on Erwin Street! RSVP - https://www.facebook.com/events/1712868625640944/
40 poets, arts, crafts, VR, dancers, singers, actors...and you?
300 poems painted on umbrellas, ravens, fans, masks, and top-hats for you! NEVERMORE is a project of Theatre Magnet, a subsidiary of Artist Magnet, and RENT Poet, in partnership with the Eclectic Company Theatre. NEVERMORE is funded in part by the City of LA Artist-in-Residency Program and the Creative Economic Development Fund (CEDF) with support from the Surdna Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). Additional support comes from the LA Tourism & Convention Board, the Offices of LA Councilmembers Nury Martinez & Paul Krekorian, LA County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl & Michael Antonovich, and our community partners. Metro keeps LA moving. We encourage you to keep up-to-date on Metro milestones and share your comments on social media with #metroplan
