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Community ✶ Creativity ✶ Craft ✶ Care ✶
Upcoming Events
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Friday August 15th
Brain Candy
8 pm Lawless Brewing Co, 5275 Craner Ave, NoHo
"Brain Candy" a drag & draw party featuring two performers paying tribute to some of our favorite childhood television programs! We’ll also have a curated selection of local artisans & vendors selling hand made and unique nostalgia and animation themed items! Tickets
Drop In & Draw
7-9 pm Moby’s Coffee & Tea, 10513 Burbank Blvd, NoHo
Free Event! Drop in & Draw. Hang out, draw and chat with us over a coffee or snack from Moby’s. A great place to meet some new friends and support a great local business. Free admission with purchase from Moby’s.
Wednesday August 13th
See what a Sketch by Sketkh figure drawing party is like!
Pillars of N.o.F.
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Community
From drawing parties to one of kind shows, workshops and festivals, NoF is on a mission to create unique events designed to enrich the artists that want to be a part of a community they can be proud of and support each other in.
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Creativity
Los Angeles is full of artists, writers and performers of all kinds,. Our mission is to foster third spaces and events that provide a safe and supportive environment to express and explore your personal creativity away from the hustle!
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Care
Fostering community through the arts only means so much if we don’t meet our patrons needs. We seek to build avenues for community members to support one another through mutual aid projects.
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Craft
We seek to share skills that are often overlooked in traditonal education- sewing, using power-tools, cooking, gardening, etc. Artists have so many creative skills and we want to ensure they have survival skills too!
Our Mission
Fostering third spaces for people to build community through artistic engagement. With over two decades of experience in fine arts and live event production among our ranks, Nest of Friends aims to enable people who seek connection and support within the local community, both creatively and practically, with social aid, skill building and communal arts projects.
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Meet the Nesties!
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Sketkh Williams
President & Co-Founder
Maryland born, NYC trained, currently feeding squirrels in Burbank, Sketkh Williams is a professional Illustrator, writer, and host of sketchXsketkh. Currently a boarder and pre-vis story-artist, Sketkh began his career in live theatre, working as a scenic fabricator and lighting technician before spending nearly a decade working in the fashion industry. Since moving to Los Angeles, Sketkh has sough to build community for visual artists and fans of drawing, providing space and time for people who are looking for connection doing something they often spend when isolated. A fan of the lost art of Radio-Theatre, RPG’s, and indie 90’s comics, Sketkh believes in 3 things for a good life: Color, laughter & hugs.
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Jennifer Martina
Treasurer & Co-Founder
Jennifer produces all Nest of Friends and Sketch by Sketkh events as well as serving as Nest’s CFO. Jennifer currently works as a voice actor and has an extensive background as a theater actor and singer. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2021, Jennifer ran two entertainment companies in New York City- Shrunken Shakespeare Company, an immersive theater nonprofit creating accessible devised works based on classical plays and literature- and Belle Reve Productions, a bespoke event entertainment company specializing in custom immersive theater and dance productions for corporate, wedding and private events. Jennifer is thrilled to bring her skills as a producer and lover of all things theatrical to every event she curates for Nest of Friends while building community with incredible local artists!
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