DTLA REAL ESTATE EMPIRE: LLEWELLYN by DAN DEVON & KELLIE ALDRICH
MUSIC TO YOUR EARS GRAND PERFORMANCES NEW LOOK & NEW CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Longtime visual artist, DJ, promoter, and music producer
Azul Amaral
joins Grand Performances as creative director Boasting an impressive Now he brings his “What I wanted to do career that spans over impressive collection here,” Azul says, “is to twenty years, it seems of skills and authentic establish itself in a new there isn’t anything artistic vision to his way because Grand excluded from worknext adventure: Performances is not ing artist Azul Amaral’s necessarily a place. Grand wheelhouse. From having Grand Performances his photography pubPerformances. needs to exist in the mind. lished in publications And that’s something that The beloved summer like “Vice Magazine” or really fits into the future concert series that has “Wax Poetics Magazine”, with online performancbeen running for over 30 to bringing the communi- es and with expanding our years brought Azul in as ty together through years reach globally. “ creative director at the of DJing, to working as beginning of 2020. But the program Manager as the world reshapes at Grand Park, Azul has been a dediitself during Covid-19, Azul’s greatest cated, working artist in Los Angeles for question is: how does Grand Performancdecades. es exist now? CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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