City Council candidate Thomas Small invites the community to his campaign kickoff on Sunday, from 2 to 5, at the home of David and Diana Hauptman, 8925 Carson St.
Mr. Small is among eight potential contenders pursuing three open seats in the April 12 election.
The kickoff will be Mr. Small’s first opportunity to share his thoughts about Culver City with the community at large. He will focus on conscientious development, growing the city’s creative businesses, ways to engage more residents in the city’s civic life, and stronger relationships between City Hall and the schools.
Community leaders will share their support for Mr. Small during the celebration.
In keeping with the candidate’s overall arts themes, Arlette Cardenes, cellist and music director of the Culver City Chamber Orchestra, will perform Suite for Cello No. 1 in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Mr. Small, a member of the Cultural Affairs Commission, initiated Culver City’s new Artist and Poet Laureate program, helped bring an international film festival to Culver City, and moderated the Cultural Affairs Foundation’s Architecture Talks series, created to engage residents and city leaders in a conversation about the potential of excellent design to improve a community.
As a commissioner, he is working to update the city’s approach to historic preservation. He also serves on the commission’s Art in Public Places subcommittee, working closely with all new major development projects in Culver City.
An architectural writer, he is expert in the fields of architecture and historic preservation, urban design and conscientious development. He collaborates with architects, designers, engineers, developers and communities to create and enhance architectural projects, neighborhoods, and developments.
Mr. Small and his wife, Joanna Brody, have two children who attend Lin Howe Elementary. She chairs the PTA and he is a parent-volunteer in the before-school Spanish enrichment program, which his wife co-founded. Mr. Small also has coached AYSO soccer.
Board chair of Jacaranda Music, the internationally renowned classical music series, Mr. Small is a board member of the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles (AFLA). A graduate of Yale University, he held a French national fellowship at the University of Paris, and a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. He is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian.
For more information about the event and to RSVP, email coco@thomas4culvercity.org.
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Ms. Rona Tuttle may be contacted at Rebecca.rona@hotmail.com
