- Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (LNAC) is a venue and gallery located in
St. Louis, Missouri , in the historic Lemp Neighborhood of the Benton Park South area.Overview
As a
non-profit project, Lemp donates a majority of the money to the musical performers. Its primary audience is the community's youth, particularly anyone involved inartistic endeavors. While the all-ages venue frequently hosts small concerts, the performers (chosen by theBoard of Directors running the establishment) are frequently non-commercial or little-known. The walls are lined with exhibits of visual artwork, often with themes of encouraging asocial consciousness .While the Lemp's main premise on limitations for performers state they do not promote "violent or reckless behavior or through a discriminatory, lewd, degrading or immoral message". At all concerts there is no drinking and no smoking inside the venue. There is a tendency towards inviting
experimental music acts, particularly ones classifiable asnoise rock ,noise pop ,art rock , ornoise music . Recently there has been a shift to having morepunk rock bands playing at Lemp. Lemp also hosts a three day festival "to make an attempt to link mid-west experimental performers whose work could be associated with noise" calledNoisefeSTL .Less publicized are the meetings held by the
Lemp Neighborhood Association .
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