The Gr818ers

Happy birthday to our artistic director and one of the best to ever touch those tables.
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Go wish him a happy birthday

SWIPE LEFT ⬅️ FOR MORE DETAILS ON OUR FALL/WINTER PROGRAMS AT .skatepark AND SIGN UP TODAY. ORIENTATION HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY! 🍂 🎶🎨👟 💪
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Wednesday, September 11th at 6pm at Fall/Winter season orientation. Sign up & learn about what we have planned this season and enjoy some music and snacks. Limited spots available. Spread the word and if you are interested, send us a message for registration information. First classes start on September 16th.
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We will have programs happening at
/ west valley skatepark / east valley
Open to all levels.
(Most programs are available ages 5-18yrs.)
Programs & Workshops in:
💃🏽🕺🏻 DANCE
🎨 🖼 ARTS & CRAFTS
💪 🤼‍♂️ GRAPPLING & FITNESS
🎶 🎧 DJING & MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
🛹 SKATEBOARDING
➕ MORE
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Scholarship opportunities available.
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Register by email today: [email protected] or give us a call at (818)456-4955 and let us know what program(s) you are interested in signing up for.
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Orientation located at our HQ

21710 Sherman Way,
Canoga Park, CA 91303
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Program details will be explained at orientation. You will be able to sign up there or you can email us today. Come take part of this great opportunity. Tell your friends and family.
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#818 #2024

OUR 2024 OPEN STYLES JUDGES 🙌🔥
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OUR 2024 POPPING JUDGES 🤯🙌🔥
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SOME STILL SHOTS OF THE ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS AT DAY 3 AFA FESTIVAL
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THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO A FAMILY AFFAIR FESTIVAL 🙏🏼 🙌 STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTENT 📷📸 :

SOME STILL SHOTS OF OUR STUDENTS ON DAY 3🌲🥁🎶
THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO A FAMILY AFFAIR FESTIVAL 🙏🏼 🙌 STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTENT 📷jd

DAY 2 Photos
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THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO THE JAM AND SHOWED OUT. WHAT A GREAT NIGHT OF DANCE. STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTENT 📸
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Media Team:
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.

OUR FALL SEASON IS UP NEXT! 🍂 🎶🎨👟 🛹 💪 SIGN UP TODAY AND COME OUT TO OUR ORIENTATION HAPPENING WEDNESDAY, SEP 11TH AT 6PM.
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Wednesday, September 11th at 6pm at fall season orientation. Sign up & learn about what we have planned this season and enjoy some music and snacks. Limited spots available. Spread the word and if you are interested, send us a message for registration information. First classes start on September 16th.
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Programs happening at




Open to all levels.
(Most programs are available ages 5-18yrs.)
Programs & Workshops in:
💃🏽🕺🏻 STREET DANCE
🎨 🖼 ARTS & CRAFTS
💪 🤼‍♂️ GRAPPLING & WRESTLING
🎶 🎧 DJING & MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
🛹 SKATEBOARDING
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Scholarship opportunities available.
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Register by email: [email protected] or give us a call at (818)456-4955 and let us know what program(s) you are interested in signing up for.
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Orientation located at our HQ

21710 Sherman Way,
Canoga Park, CA 91303
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Program details will be explained at orientation. You will be able to sign up there as-WELL. Come take part of this great opportunity. Tell your friends and family.
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#818 #2024

TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK 🗣️ 💪 ✨
CELEBRATING 14 YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY!
We want to give a special shout out to our Family, Staff, Interns and Volunteers for all their hard work leading up to AFA FEST and especially the day(s) of. This wouldn’t be possible without all of them. Please show some love and if you’re ever interested in volunteering with our organization - send us a message.
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Stay tuned in for more content from this event! 👀

CONGRATS TO OUR 2024 AFA CHAMPIONS 🏆 .sanders
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FINALISTS .salonga
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SHOUT OUT TO OUR JUDGES
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STACKED W/ TALENT FROM PRELIMS TO THE FINALS, LIKE ALWAYS IT WASNT EASY AND EVERYONE DID THEIR THING BUT THEIR MUST BE A WINNER.
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SHOW SOME LOVE TO THESE DANCERS AND STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTENT OF THE ACTION.
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AFA FESTIVAL WAS A GREAT SUCCESS 🎉🙌🙏❤️
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MUCH LOVE TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO CELEBRATE 14 YEARS STRONG WITH US THESE PAST 3 DAYS. SHOUT OUT TO ALL WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE.
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CHECK OUT OUR ANNUAL PHOTO OF SOME OF THOSE WHO STAYED UNTIL THE VERY END 🙏
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STAY TUNED FOR MORE WORDS AND CONTENT FROM THIS AMAZING EVENT/WEEKEND.

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8/17 - Grand Finale FEATURED ACTIVITIES FOR TODAY 🪅🌞🎉
at - Canoga, Ca
Performances, Car show, Vendors, Food, Family activities + Top 8 - Finals of the Open Styles battle & much more. | 2pm-9pm | FREE
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Featuring: + more!
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Hosted by
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. Save the dates. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
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#818 #2024

AFA FESTIVAL OPEN STYLES TOP 8 🙌🔥👏
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CAME OUT TODAY TO FIND OUT WHO THESE DANCERS WILL BE PAIRED UP WITH FROM OUR BATTLE GUESTS AND WHO WILL BE THE 2024 CHAMPIONS! 🏆
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THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT TO THE JAM AND SHOWED OUT. CONGRATS TO THE 8 DANCERS MOVING FORWARD. WHAT A GREAT NIGHT OF DANCE. STAY TUNED FOR MORE CONTENT 🎥
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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Hosted by
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
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#818 #2023

DAY 1 CHECK OUT SOME OF THE SNAPS! We were able to raise over $2000 dollars and had a lot of fun with our team while doing it. Thanks to all who tuned in online 🙏. Day 2 - The Jam starts today at 5pm at TAXCO
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Media team
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 15th-17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. Save the dates. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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#818 date #2024

Take advantage of some of the best deals in town. Get your groceries and shop at Monday through Sunday . Mention “GR818ERS” and 20% of the proceeds go back to our organization + if you scan the QR code and download the app you get $5 off 👀
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Please help us spread the word by sharing this flyer and plan to come out to our festival this weekend!
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 15th - 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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8/15 - STREAM-A-THON
Livestream on our channel. Past & present of our organization + more. | 2pm-7pm
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8/16 - The Jam
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Solo Prelims - Top 16 of the themed open styles dance battle. | 5pm-9pm | $10 Donation
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8/17 - Grand Finale
at - Canoga, Ca
Performances, Car show, Vendors, Food, Family activities + Top 8 - Finals of the Open Styles battle & much more. | 2pm-9pm | FREE
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Featuring: + more!
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Hosted by
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. Save the dates. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
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#818 #2024

CONGRATS TO THE 2024 WORLD BATTLE
CHAMPION - 🏆 AND FINALIST 🥈
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Making it to the finals out of 100 dancers from around the world. Every battle was high level and not easy to judge. Show them some love and stay tuned for more content coming soon.
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Shout out to all the dancers who competed and our Judges, DJ and Host for doing what they do best! We appreciate for providing the platform and team for organizing the world battles.
Show some love and give a follow. Until next time!
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We want to wish a Happy Birthday to our DJ and Grappling Instructor - Mark Innocencio / Go show him some love on his special day/week. 🎂 🎉
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One of our multi faceted instructors who always brings a great vibe wherever he goes and has done a great job giving back to his community and the students that he teaches sharing the knowledge and experience he’s gained over the years. Not to mention a super dope DJ that loves to provide funky vibes whenever he plays for the party people.
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We appreciate you and hope you have a great bday celebrating another year of life.

NEXT WEEK! World Finals 🏆 🌎 🙌
at Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona
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will be doing what they do best and hosting the 1vs1 Allstyles battle for this first time at so you already know it’s going to be epic!
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Friday, August 9th
World Battles // 1vs1 All Styles battles
for a chance to win $2000 cash and be a world champion.
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Judges -
DJ & Host -
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Doors open at 12:30pm // Prelims start at 3:00pm
Buy tickets & register at Hiphopinternational.com
📍 8000 S. Grand Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona
(Click link in bio)
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We are incredibly grateful for the support of the Department of Arts and Culture.
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This grant is vital to our community based art programs here in the San Fernando Valley. We will continue to provide positive outlets for youth and families to grow, heal, and organize with their community! 🌟

to AFA Fest last year with our battle guests and judges rocking the exclusive airbrush tees by the one and only .magoo.uno 🖊️ 🎨
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Stay tuned for what we have in store this year at it’s going down August 15th-17th in the city of Canoga Park, CA. celebrating 14 years! 🙌

PERFORMING LIVE ON STAGE 🎤
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 15th - 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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8/15 - STREAM-A-THON
Livestream on our channel. Past & present of our organization + more. | 2pm-7pm
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8/16 - The Jam
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Solo Prelims - Top 16 of the themed open styles dance battle. | 5pm-9pm | $10 Donation
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8/17 - Grand Finale
at - Canoga, Ca
Performances, Car show, Vendors, Food, Family activities + Top 8 - Finals of the Open Styles battle & much more. | 2pm-9pm | FREE
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Featuring: + more!
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Hosted by
DJ
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
Flyer design by: (edit by )
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#818 #2024

Sharing some visuals of inspiration 👀🙌☀️
We are keeping it active during our Summer Season w/ programs happening through out the San Fernando Valley 💃🎨🥋🤼‍♂️🛹
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Located and in collaboration with
.skatepark
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What a great season so far. Staying active during the summer and getting ready for the big culmination at AFA Festival | GR818ERS 14yr. Anniversary on August 17th in Canoga Park. If you are interested in signing up or learning about our programs send us a message to get more information on our FREE and affordable programs. You can DM or email [email protected]
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We can’t wait to continue learning and practicing with all of our students this season. Programs include.m: Arts & Crafts, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, Skateboarding, DJing, and Dance with most programs being open to ages 5-18 years and a few adult classes. All programs are led by some of the best instructors in LA.
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Scholarship Opportunities Available!
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We want to wish a Happy Birthday to our Events Coordinator - Daniel Sickler / ! Go show him some love on his special day. 🎂 🎉
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Someone who has been there since the beginnings of this organization and actually started as one of our first students and now is a pivotal part to our team and the work we do. He has wore many hats through out this journey and always willing to do whatever it takes to give back to the community in a positive way.
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We appreciate you and hope you have a great bday celebrating another year of life.

LESS THAN A TWO MONTHS AWAY!
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 15th - 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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8/15 - STREAM-A-THON
Livestream on our channel. Past & present of our organization + more. | 2pm-7pm
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8/16 - The Jam
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Solo Prelims - Top 16 of the themed open styles dance battle. | 5pm-9pm | $10 Donation
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8/17 - Grand Finale
at - Canoga, Ca
Performances, Car show, Vendors, Food, Family activities + Top 8 - Finals of the Open Styles battle & much more. | 2pm-9pm | FREE
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Featuring: + more!
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Hosted by
DJ
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. Save the dates. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
Flyer design by: (edit by )
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ABOUT TWO MONTHS AWAY
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Check out what we have in store for our special featured and always favored open styles dance battle. More information on the festival coming soon!
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AFA FESTIVAL / A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. Anniversary.
Music. Art. Dance. Community.
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August 15th - 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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8/15 - STREAM-A-THON
Livestream on our channel. Past & present of our organization + more. | 2pm-7pm
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8/17 - The Jam
at Taxco Theatre
Solo Prelims - Top 16 of the themed open styles dance battle. | 5pm-9pm
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8/17 - Grand Finale
at - Canoga, Ca
Performances, Car show, Vendors, Food, Family activities + Top 8 - Finals of the Open Styles battle & much more. | 2pm-9pm
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Featured talent for the open styles battle:
Judges:
Battle guests: .__ .klein
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Hosted by
DJs .novasoul
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. Save the dates. You’re not going to want to miss out!
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This is a FREE/Affordable festival for the community. Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
Flyer design by: (edit by )
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#818 #2024

Swipe left for visuals of inspiration 👀🙌
We are keeping it active through our Summer Season w/ programs happening through out the San Fernando Valley 💃🎨🥋🤼‍♂️🛹
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Located and in collaboration with
.skatepark
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What a great season so far. This time around we have more programs than ever ranging from arts and athletics. If you are interested in signing up or learning about our programs send us a message to get more information on our FREE and affordable programs. You can DM or email [email protected]
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We can’t wait to continue learning and practicing with all of our students this season. Programs include.m: Arts & Crafts, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, Skateboarding, DJing, and Dance with most programs being open to ages 5-18 years and a few adult classes. All programs are led by some of the best instructors in LA.
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Scholarship Opportunities Available!

3 MONTHS AWAY!☀️🌱🙌
Check the call flyers for - Vendors and Volunteers. Celebrating 14 years as a community organization with a weekend of events. More information below.
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AFA FESTIVAL // A FAMILY AFFAIR
14yr. anniversary
Music • Art • Dance • Community
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August 15th - 17th
Canoga Park, Ca, 91303
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8/15 - Virtual Connection
8/16 - The Jam & Block Party
8/17 - Main Event / Park Festival
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Call for…
VENDORS - Clothes, Food, Art, Resources.
[Spots available for 8/16 & 8/17]
VOLUNTEERS - be a part of the team and help make the event a success. [Spots available for 8/16 & 8/17. Ages 16yrs. and up]
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Vendors contact: [email protected]
Volunteers contact:
[email protected]
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An action packed weekend for you all to enjoy. Open to all ages, plan to bring your family & friends to come celebrate with us. More information coming very soon. Just wait until you see the line up of artists, performers, vendors, etc. we have coming through. You don’t want to miss out!
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Donations are greatly appreciated and will go right back to our community center and programs/events:
- Awoke818
- Paypal.Me/Awoke818
- cash.app/$awoke818
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This festival is made possible by

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Contact: [email protected]
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ART IN MOTION 🎨🎤
STILL SHOTS FROM THIS PAST MONTH 👀 📸
CELEBRATING EARTH DAY THEME 🌎
& OUR WINTER/SPRING PROGRAM
SEASON CULMINATION 🙌 🍎
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Shout out to everyone who came out and supported our seasonal event and all the artists who showcased their artwork and talent. We were also able to celebrate the culmination of our winter/spring season with our students at & .skatepark 🙌.
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Always a good time connecting with the community and watching the next generation shine. Stay tuned for what we have coming up next. Send us a message today if you’re interested in signing up for our Summer season programs in the 818!
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DM or email a [email protected]
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NEXT SATURDAY!🛹🏆☀️💪
Come join us for the 1st annual
SHELL CITY SKATE FEST - Happening May 25th.
from 12pm until 4pm at Sheldon Skatepark
12511 Sheldon st., Sun Valley, CA
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We will be featuring a Skateboarding contest and skate games for all levels to have a chance to win some prizes and be seen!
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There will be…
FREE Food, Live art, Raffles & Giveaways, Live Music/DJs, Workshops, Resource booths Family Games and more. All FREE for the community to enjoy.
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Come on out and grab a plate, get active and learn about what more we have planned for the park this year. From FREE programs to events. Always family friendly. See you there!
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