BROKE LA, the DIY festival that started as Brokechella, won’t return in April
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The eclectic local festival BROKE LA will not be back for a ninth year.
The event began under the name Brokechella as a 5-buck party and a budget-busting alternative to the big April festival in the desert. It evolved into a multi-stage, multi-discipline affair over two days last year at the Regent Theater.
In a social media post today, organizers said the festival won’t happen in April “and we’re not sure what will happen in the future.”
The ambitious festival, which eventually was staged at a couple of pop-up warehouse locations, was largely sustained by a volunteer workforce. “Our mission was simple: We wanted to support new artists of all kinds by giving them as large of a platform as we could give them, and we wanted to make an awesome, homegrown festival that we could all afford to go to,” BROKE LA’s statement said. “We wanted to turn the word ‘BROKE’ from meaning how much money you had to a reclaimed word to celebrate artists and fans making it — whatever it is — happen against all the odds.
It became time, the statement says, to “step back and recalibrate. In short: The festival landscape, events in Los Angeles, and our lives have all changed so much since we started. Unless we can give our loyal and vibrant community the true BROKE party we all know and love, with our mission and resources intact, we agree it just wouldn’t be right.”
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