[Goodie bag for 'Dinner in the City' event]
Format: Archive Item
Keywords: goodie bag, dinner
Reference Number: B.40272.WO
Acquisition Date: 4/11/2025
Copies: 2
Description:

Tote bag for Women's Center for Creative Work's 2013 "Dinner in the City" event, gifted to attendees as goodie bags.

Both bags contain:

- Global Land Allotment Distribution Population Adjustment Policy info sticker

- Woman’s Building incomplete artist inventory list zine.

- Abstract “Little darling” block print on colored paper, postcard size

- Postcard for the Utility public art project sponsored by the Playhouse District Association, Pasadena’s Center for Culture, Commerce, and Community in 2011. Utility is installed on five utility boxes on Colorado Ave featuring quotes about freedom of speech from historic American figures.

- Silhouetted plant matter screen print on colored paper, postcard size.

- Bundle of hand folded posters, one black and grey with abstract images, on both sides, another yellow paper black ink poster of Celia Cruz on one side and “AZÚCAR!” printed on the other, holding a mix CD in hand folded printed paper that features the tracklist

- “Parking Up Front” Poster by Colleen Corcoran and Herbie Huff. “Is rethinking parking the secret key to making Los Angeles a better, more livable city?”

- Pants Magazine, Concerning bifurcated garments, etc.  Issue #1 – Histories. November 2013. A magazine concerning pants and pants related things, literal or figurative.

- Packet of hand folded envelopes and posters secured with pink tape by Jessica Fleishmann/Still Room. Enclosed are several small pieces of paper with fortune-like sayings and symbols/images printed on the reverse side and a small printed note from Mindy Chiu about water and love.

- One LP each: Promotional copy of Jesse Colin Young’s Songbird and Promotional copy of Tom Snow’s Hungry Nights. (LPs can be found in Box 92.8)

One bag contains extras:

- A walnut

- A crumpled piece of irregular oval shaped paper printed with red X’s on one side and “A lemonade on a hot day is always appreciated.”

- Three “I PROPOSE” cards, with suggestions/invitations for various activities on one side with availability calendars printed on the back.

 

–A.R. 2/28/25