826LA
Echo Park Time Travel Mart
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| Motto | Whenever You Are, We're Already Then |
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| Formation | 2005 |
| Founders | Nínive Calegari and Dave Eggers |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose | Education |
| Headquarters | The Echo Park Time Travel Mart 1714 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 The Mar Vista Time Travel Mart 12515 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90066 |
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Region served
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Los Angeles |
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Executive Director
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Joel Arquillos |
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Main organ
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Advisory board: J.J. Abrams Judd Apatow Fiona Apple Miguel Arteta Mac Barnett Steve Barr Joshuah Bearman Father Greg Boyle, SJ Stefan G. Bucher Mark Flanagan Naomi Foner Mitchell Frank Ben Goldhirsh Ellen Goldsmith-Vein Nicole Holofcener Spike Jonze Miranda July Catherine Keener Al Madrigal Melissa Mathison Tara Roth Katie McGrath R. Scott Mitchell Lani Monos B.J. Novak Jane Patterson Keri Putnam Sonja Rasula Luis J. Rodriguez J. Ryan Stradal Sarah Vowell Sally Willcox |
| Affiliations | 826 National |
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Staff
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20 |
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Volunteers
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4,000+ |
| Website | http://www.826la.org/ |
Advisory board:
J.J. Abrams
Judd Apatow
Fiona Apple
Miguel Arteta
Mac Barnett
Steve Barr
Joshuah Bearman
Father Greg Boyle, SJ
Stefan G. Bucher
Mark Flanagan
Naomi Foner
Mitchell Frank
Ben Goldhirsh
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Nicole Holofcener
Spike Jonze
Miranda July
Catherine Keener
Al Madrigal
Melissa Mathison
Tara Roth
Katie McGrath
R. Scott Mitchell
Lani Monos
B.J. Novak
Jane Patterson
Keri Putnam
Sonja Rasula
Luis J. Rodriguez
J. Ryan Stradal
Sarah Vowell
826LA is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6–18 with their creative and expository writing skills and helping teachers inspire their students to write. Programs are structured around the beliefs that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. 826LA was founded in 2005 and is one of several chapters of 826 National. To serve students across Los Angeles' various regions, there are two locations: 826LA in Mar Vista and 826LA in Echo Park. A satellite site at Manual Arts Senior High School in South L.A. opened in 2013.
The 826LA Board of Directors consists of Grant DeVaul, Dave Eggers, Terena Thyne Eisner, Jodie Evans, DeAnna Gravillis, Keith Knight, Louis Lucido, Krystyn Madrigal, Sylvie Rabineau, and Brad Simpson.
There are six other 826 National chapters; San Francisco (826 Valencia), NYC (826NYC), Chicago (826CHI), Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti/Detroit (826michigan), Boston (826 Boston) and Washington, D.C. (826DC).
The Time Travel Mart exists at both 826LA in Mar Vista and 826LA in Echo Park, specializing in products imported from the past and future, such as Viking odorant, robot milk, robot toupees, robot emotions, mammoth chunks, and other time travel-themed oddities. The store and its initial line of products were conceived by writers Mac Barnett and Jon Korn, and graphic designer Stefan G. Bucher. The store also sells anthologies of work by 826LA writing students, new and back issues of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Wholphin, and other McSweeney's publications. The store also sells a special series of Poketo wallets, celebrating the work of artists and students alike. The short stories written by 826LA students line the inside of Poketo's artist wallets, and then illustrated with a Poketo artist's interpretations of the stories.
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