Health & Fitness
Sunset & Dine: A Community Celebration
Sunset & Dine is a food, wine and art celebration being organized for the Hollywood community by the Sunset & Vine District, a non-profit Business Improvement District.
The Sunset & Vine Business Improvement District is thrilled to be preparing for its inaugural Sunset & Dine event, to be held on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at Academy Hollywood from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tickets for the event are $20, which includes food and two drink tickets, and are available now at sunsetanddine.eventbrite.com.
Sunset & Dine will feature local restaurants giving out samples of their food, beer and wine from a local vendor, a DJ from Amoeba Music, and an art show of street pole banner designs created by students at Helen Bernstein High School. All the designs will be on display and the students who created the winning designs, which will be fabricated into actual street pole banners installed throughout the District, will receive honors.
The celebration will commemorate the renewal and expansion of the Sunset & Vine District, which was voted in by the property owners last fall. This is the BID's first public event, and the first to be held at the beautiful new Academy Hollywood, and outdoor movie theatre and event space from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS). It was just constructed to the north of the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Pictures, 1313 Vine Street, in Hollywood. This amazing new facility is where AMPAS will be hosting Oscars Outdoors, with movie screenings each Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer (see the lineup of films at Curbed LA). Sunset & Dine will be the public's first chance to experience Academy Hollywood.
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Sponsorships and exhibitors are still being accepted; visit www.sunsetdine.com for details, or contact Devin Strecker at 323-463-6767; devin@hollywoodbid.org.
The planning committee for Sunset & Dine includes BID board members Fabio Conti, Fabiolus Cafe; Elizabeth McDonald, The Los Angeles Film School; Charles Eberly, The Eberly Company; Brian Folb, Paramount Contractors and Developers, and Kitty Gordillo, Hollywood Wilshire YMCA.
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“This event will mark so many firsts,” Folb, President of the Sunset & Vine BID board, said. “Not only is this the first community event undertaken by our organization, it will also be the public’s first chance to experience the amazing new facility that the Academy is creating for Hollywood. It is a wonderful new place and Sunset & Dine will bring together the businesses and residents of Hollywood together in a casual social setting.”
The Sunset & Vine District is a seven-year property-based Business Improvement District (BID) that spans 15 blocks along the world-renowned Sunset Boulevard, from roughly Schrader Boulevard on the west to the 101 Freeway on the east. Renewed in 2012, the SVBID is composed of approximately 138 property owners who are assessed $1.4 million annually to pay for security, maintenance services and marketing to promote the revitalization of the area. Major landmarks in the District include the Cinerama Dome, Sunset & Vine Tower, Sunset Gower Studios, The Los Angeles Film School, and the former Tribune Studios. More information on the BID is available at www.sunsetandvinebid.org.
