BloomfestLA

This was a fun-​filled event! Arts and crafts and great food– a perfect day! Safe place to bring brothers kids– they enjoyed and we’re tired after! Parking was a hassle, hence one less star but otherwise recommended

Just pay the fiver to park…

Free lot parking off 3^rd. Go thru Santa Fe.
This event was family, pet and singles friendly. Plenty of children’s workshops and art/​craft-​making stations. Variety of vendors: jewelry, clothing, art and food. Great bands and other art related demonstrations. An annual must for all.

Another day spent gallivanting around downtown planned around a festival. My Fella must really love me a lot. I always drag him to these art, craft, music, etc festivals. Each time he makes little grunting noises to show he is not amused nor happy. Yet after the day is done, he usually looks at me and says that wasn’t so bad, it was actually kind of fun.
A friend had told me about this art and music fest a few days prior and i was looking forward to checking it out. It had been awhile since I had been down in that area nad I wanted to check out a restaurant or two that I had heard about.
We got tremendously lost inside the fair. We walked every leg and visited every booth, scooping up art for the house, and accessories for me. I bought a few things in addition that were handmade by various artisans, that have rapidly become favorites in my wardrobe. We ate at a restaurant a few blocks away, mostly because we were in desperate need of cool air. I would have liked to have tried some of the food trucks, but it was just too damn hot for this fair skinned lady.
I did however make a stop by the coolhaus truck for a nice ice cream sandwich that promptly started melting all over me. It was absolutely what I needed, aside from the resulting sticky mess all over my hands. We completed another loop around the fair discussing which of the pieces we wanted to come home and join the collection. We were at somewhat of a impasse and stopped in the pie hole for an iced coffee. we ended up walking around and stumbling upon a piece we both liked more and laughed at the fate of the gods and rejoiced in finding our newly acquired art.
It was quite the day of art and eating. Next year I think I will do it again, but I will get there a little earlier and get a table at wurstkurche.

So many cute boutiquey booths set up! And lots of freebies! Love that! Got some pop chips, smart water, honest tea, and lots more! Love these outdoor art gallery/​food truck gatherings/​hang out and listen to music type of events. The Jalisco’s area was booming! Support local artists and shops!

I Didn’t Know This Was Going On Here Today. I Came For The Shave Ice With Some Friends.
This Was A Fun Event That Even My 3 Year Old Enjoyed.
Music, Art, & Free Stuff. It Wasn’t Just Artsy, It Was Fun!!!
There Were Different Bands Playing, But What Was Really Good Was The Art!!!
Local Artists Showing Off Their Creations… You Just Gotta See The Art, Better Than Expected…
There Were Enough Things Around That Kept My Toddler Happy. Throwing Bean Bags At The Pop Chip Stand… Drawing At The Kids Juice Booth And Almost Toppling The Big Jenga Tower At The Vitamin Water Booth (MY Hubby & I Stopped Him Before It Went Tumbling Down)…Etc…Etc…My Son Loved His Lime Green Sunglasses Until He lost Them Someplace In The Little Tokyo Arcade…
We Got To Sample A Lot Of Healthy Type Foods And Buy Them At Discounted Prices. Or Get Handfuls Of Freebees From Lots OF The Vendors…
Definitely A Good Place To Go With Your Family…
I Would Definitely Go Again!!!

This place is like a out door art gallery, art is everywhere well depend how you look. Great music are playing and lots of vendor showing off their healthy stuff. Unilocal booth you kick A$$ bringing all the local Unilocaler together to enjoy a good day under the sun. Thanks to all the vendor who have showing me the eco away in life.
I have not see so many artiest in one place, Most of them are very good at what they but many of them are unheard of…
This is what i call urban art!

Welcome to Bloomfest LA, where there’s only one rule: you cannot take off your sunglasses… especially at night!
What started off as a fun event actually progressed as a fun event. The booths were nice and extremely expensive — Capitalist Hippies is what I like to call them. You could easily spend over $ 200 on a couple of strategic items that will eventually gather dust and/​or lint on your bedroom corner — «but I’m saving it for when my boyfriend and I move in together in the next 2−4ish years!.» Surrrrre. Unilocal was one of the booths in attendance although it was left unattended when I arrived. I quickly took to the matter with great advantage and snatched a Unilocal pin. The whereabouts of that pin currently remain a mystery.
The ironically named food trucks were obscure as always but I welcomed everyone one of them as well as the live stage music with their many Metric cover songs. There was even a VIP section where you had to be 21 to enter. The purpose of sealing off this part of the event was so the congregation could sip semi-​expensive beer and share good memories with their fellow brethren.
All in all, who knew women in their 50s dyed their hair pink? Cool beans.

Went to eat in Little Tokyo and saw this festival going on and thought SWEET its a festival! It was great, a total art district alternative feel.
Great
— Organic Sprout Vendor from Highland Park was there
— Cool Vintage Fashion Trucks
— Got to meet Freedom & Fashion
— Soap Farm & Luka Soaps for paraben sulfate free soaps
— 3 or 4 bands playing. NIce
— Free food from vendors like pop chips, honest tea
— right in the middle of the street in happening places near pie hole and the sausage place. hmm. got to get pie too.
— lots of cool vendors with a purpose. like the people trying to reach out to ban toxic cancer causing chemicals in household products, bath products, and beauty products
— cool emerging start ups
— free
— parking on streets and little tokyo
we donated some money to bloomfest organizers to help keep it going.
Glad to have come across it. NICE. Please have it again!

While on a impromptu walking food tour of DT LA, Andre N., James S., Ed A., and I happened upon this cool little street fair. We walked here from near Dodger Stadium and had a blast. We stopped by the Unilocal booth where the always awesome Katie B. was holding down the fort. We snagged some sweet swag and got one of her famous hugs.
There were so many cool booths and vendors at the event and they were super friendly. We all sampled a Chia Seed drink called Mamma Chia and loved it. The lady gave us a variety of flavors to try and I even scored a sweet frisbee. Lots of fresh t shirts and tanks for the guys to buy, but a much larger selection of womens clothes. The bands that were playing were also a lot of fun and got the crowd moving. If I had to pick a favorite part of the event, I would say it was the art. There was a section where anyone could pick up a brush or marker and paint/​draw something. Very cool.
Will definitely be back next year.

Pretty cool event I must say and for the low, low, low price of free, cant complain. Now im not really into hipsters and such, like my boy James S, but if you are then this is place for here, hipster fest 2012 as it should be called. But with the hipsters aside, there are especially alot of cool things to see and do, especially the women, damn it was a site to see with all the good looking honeys walking around.
There were all kind of booths to check out, some great artists to see, lots of freebies, samples of food and drinks. I must give much props for the Friends of the LA River booth, I love what they stand for and they gave me a complimentary shirt too. Free Pop chips, Vitamin water and such cant beat that. Also the Unilocal booth manned by this lady named Katie, was nice to give me some cool Unilocal Glasses and a bag. Thanks Katie.
Good music was also playing and angels flight brewery was open, and could of had some beers, but It was just too early for me to have a drink.
I would go next year and maybe this time bring my appetite and try the various food trucks or grab a beer and sausage from Angels Flight.

Well done.
Small yearly (July) Downtown art’s festival centered in the Downtown Art’s District adjacent to Little Tokyo.
Very reminiscent of something you would see in Chicago or lower Manhattan but it was here in DTLA.
The obligatory LA food trucks slinging the typical garbage was the only downside to the event (upside — Little Tokyo was only steps away for something to eat).
Nice beer/​alcohol tented/​cordoned off area — local clothing/​arts vendors — random bands playing on different blocks — good local vibe — and a solid crowd made this a nice distraction for an hour or so on a summer evening.

Why was it so ridiculously hot?! Otherwise, it would’ve been a wonderful day well spent in LA. Paid $ 5 «donation» to park in a very rocky (and I mean BIG rocks), unpaved dirt lot. I guess that’s our fault for being lazy.
Of course, food trucks galore. And the clothing up for sale, oh geez. I wanted to buy everything. It was really tempting. Lots of hipster-​esque things, and hipsters abound. We brought our dog because the flyer said pet friendly. It was great. They had a few booths for him as well, so he was happy :)
The festival was to promote and appreciate art, and I thought it was a really cool chance to inspire the young. There was a room where they got pretty creative, creating art from miscellaneous objects like hard-​drives, cereals, and even pages from books (as an English major, I cringed at the desecration).
A big shoutout to the Unilocal booth, replete with awesome free swag as always :) I got Unilocal sunglasses. On the inside it reads: UV Rays? F.U.C. ‘em!

Got to this place randomly. Was walking around in DTLA and came here, there were a couple of artist making some drawing. I saw one guy on a big canvas with a pen, I walked around and came back, he was drawing a female face and it was quite good. It’s awesome to see someone make an art piece… I have no artistic skills, so I always find it fascinating. There were so many booths with arts and crafts. One of the booths had a retro looking windows signs for restaurants… kinda what looks like in the movies for road houses in the 1960’s. I didn’t know this area existed and it’s metro accessible.

What a great way to spend an afternoon! Really family friendly and a vast selection of food, art, music, and stuff. Enjoyed my stop at the Cake Bar, the Unilocal table — thanks for the bag at check in! — and many other interesting tables. Certainly plan to attend this annual event in the future!

Great way to spend a summer afternoon filled art and music.
The day started off with a 5k run then a lunch gathering with a several of my boys, Dre, Ed and Jose. We took down the massive sandwiches being served at Eastside Market up on Alpine St. then trekked over the bridge to Mexicali to try out their famous vampiro quesadilla. At this point we had hit our limit of food. As we were shooting the shit about what we had plans for the rest of the day we noticed a certain someone had checked in at Bloomfest. Having just read about it the day before I knew exactly what it was and thought about hitting it up. Well we did just consume half a weeks worth of calories in a matter of hours, a small walk over would do us some good.
After what felt like an hour’s worth of walking, it wasn’t, in the summer heat we had gotten to the Art’s District. Immediately, Katie had spotted us and was ready for to give one of her famous hugs. We all chit chatted a bit then started to make our rounds. Just putting it out there, a lot of beautiful women. Other than that, there were tents upon tents of healthy organic snack stands. The one that stood out and in due part to the heat was the Mama Chia fruit juice stand. Every flavor the lady was serving were delicious! I could have downed several bottles if she had let me.
Plenty of art works on display and several artists working on pieces right in front of everyone. There were also pretty cool t-​shirts and art works for sale. The guys mentioned that most of the people in attendance were of my kind. What does that mean? Handsome?! I kid I kid not really. I assume they were referring to how hipster I normally dress outside of Unilocal events.
Would I go back?
Yes you can catch me amongst my people same time next year.