The Venice Chamber of Commerce and the Venice Symphony Orchestra celebrated St Patrick’s Day with the first-ever lighting of the “O’Venice” Sign on March 17, 2015.

The Venice Sign was lit green by our new LAPD Pacific Division Captain Nicole Alberca and a reception was held at Bank of Venice by owner Tom Elliot.

On hand with Captain Alberca to help light the Sign were a host of community leaders including Carl Lambert, Abigail Meyers, Carol Tantau, Jason Teague, Ridaa Murad, Wesley Flowers, Sunny Bak, and Reta Moser to name a few. Both the “O” and switch were designed and fabricated by architect Ramsey Daham and his firm Breakform Design.

The Chamber looks forward to establishing this as another enduring tradition for the historic Venice Sign and the entire community.

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BANK OF VENICE RECEPTION & O’VENICE SIGN LIGHTING EVENT PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS: 

Right:  Rei Yoshioka

Bank of Venice’s Tom Elliot.   Bank of Venice offer great local organic food, craft beers and cocktails and all CA wines.  bankofvenicepublichouse.com

Venice Symphony Orchestra’s Wesley Flowers, Venice Chamber/Venice Sign event producer George Francisco, and Yolanda.

Right:  Venice Chamber’s David Moring and Carol Tantau chat with officers

Center:  LAPD Pacific Division Captain Nicole Alberca  Far right:  Venice Stakeholder Association’s Mark Ryavec

Center:   Jason Teague

Guests check out Bank of Venice’s new menu!

James and Evan White

Left:  Venice Art Crawl’s Sunny Bak.  Right:  Venice Chamber’s Executive Director Donna Lasman

Chamber’s Carol Tantau and Angie

Fun with Venice Breeze Suites – Venice Chamber of Commerce President Carl Lambert

Right:  Alternative Lighting Todd Alter and Rei

Todd Alter, Venice Chamber’s Kelly Layne, and friend

The Venice Sign Committee with LAPD Pacific Division Captain Nicole Alberca