Echo Park's much loved Machine Project offers art, classes and civilized mayhem from Experimental Millinery and Bookbinding to Flame Effects (read: giant fireballs) and Sewing 101.
Annually, a month's worth of epic programming is compressed into a single night's party.
At this year's benefit, DMV: After Dark, you will experience such phenomena as: car horn fanfare; competitive sobriety tests; workshops on breaking into and hot-wiring cars, as well as how to escape from a locked trunk, heavy metal polka, surrealistic eye charts, "secret pancakes," and a human vending machine which dispenses delicious food prepared by Donna Coppola of Auntie Em's Kitchen fame.
The situation will be helped along with a giant bonfire, s'mores and Machine Project beer.
Machine Project Benefit, Los Angeles: Human Vending, Hot Wiring Cars, Competitive Sobriety Tests
