By Daily Press staff
Challenge yourself today to a conga while sipping an ice-blended drink. The Coffee Bean Conga Challenge will encourage people to do the conga in the name of charity. There will be a large conga line formed in front of the Third Street Promenade coffee shop, and for each person that participates, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will donate the price of an Ice Blended beverage to P.S. ARTS, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the arts in public schools.
There also will be a special performance by the “Hot Marimbas,” a group of youngsters that play Latin percussion instruments from P.S. ARTS. Conga participants also can sample the new summer drinks from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf — Piña Colada Ice Blended, Dulce de Leche Ice Blended and eXtreme Caramba Ice Blended.
The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. P.S. ARTS is dedicated to restoring art education programs to public schools by providing comprehensive, skills-based, sequential classes in dance, drama, music and visual arts to children attending Title I schools in California. The organization also offers workshops to classroom teachers that are designed to inspire and instruct teachers how to integrate creative expression and the arts into core curriculum.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 22, 2004. Read the original PDF.