Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Shinpei Takeda** Tuesday, March 17th | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist [Shinpei Takeda](https://18thstreet.org/california-creative-corps/shinpei-takeda/)[.](https://18thstreet.org/california-creative-corps/suchi-branfman/) Artist bio: Shinpei Takeda is a visual artist working in a wide array of mediums including installations, film, text, public projects in order to shift perceived history by materializing forgotten personal memories. Shinpei is a co-founder and artistic director of The AJA Project , a nonprofit working with marginalized youth using a photography and story-telling in San Diego. He also founded Ghost Magnet Roach Motel, a noise punkformance unit in Tijuana, Mexico. His films and installations have been exhibited in many places in Germany, Mexico, Japan and US. He has been doing public art projects in San Diego since early 2000s, and have carried out other public art projects in Japan and Germany most recently using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.