At the beginning of July, I had the opportunity to spend some time with 300seats founder and Baton Rouge entrepreneur, Manuel Valencia, wandering around downtown Baton Rouge.
Manny’s organization wants to eventually open an arts space in the downtown area with 300seats. So far, 300seats has hosted a pop-up movie theater, showing two independent films, and also opened Baton Rouge’s first pop-up restaurant this past weekend at an empty restaurant space in Perkins Rowe.
We had a lot of fun roaming the streets of downtown Baton Rouge on our shoot, and the photographs captured Manny with a few buildings that he believes 300seats could utelize in the future for a theater, art and creation space.
Manuel Valencia, founder of 300seats, stands next to an abandoned building in downtown Baton Rouge on Friday, July 8, 2011. 300seats hosted a pop up movie evening, showing two independent films, at a Baton Rouge location and has plans to create a pop-up restaurant in Baton Rouge during the month of September. (Photo by Erin Parker / 225 Magazine)
To read Jeff’s article about 300seats, go here.
To learn more about 300seats’ mission, check out their website.
