Jun 27, 2014
Indie Week Promotes Shopping Local, Art and MusicBy Brittany WoolseyLBPost.com

Long Beach, CA – Shopping, music and art together: what could be more perfect? It’s all happening locally in Long Beach starting this weekend,as the city will become the first major city in California to embrace shopping local in the national Independents Week, or Indie Week.

The nine-day campaign, beginning tomorrow, will include unique takes on art shows, food tastings, retailer specials, a social media contest with giveaways, curated local music crawls and more.

One example of the form that uniqueness takes is by way of local surrealist artist Dave Van Patten, who has created black-and-white versions of his work and scattered them throughout businesses for people to simply color in themselves. Aspiring colorists are then encouraged to upload their masterpiece to Facebook or Instagram with #IndieWeekLB.

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Tags: shop local, small business

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