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Eat Your Feelings at Venice’s Depressed Cake Shop
The pop-up shop on Aug. 23 and 24 on Venice Boulevard will serve everything from grey donuts to blue velvet cupcakes to raise funds for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
If you make your way down to the Buckwild Gallery at 12804 Venice Blvd. on Aug. 23 and 24. You’ll be able to buy some of the most depressing looking pastries at the Depressed Bakery Pop Up shop, reports the Huffington Post.
According to Huffpost, “Think sugar cookies shaped like prozac pills, gray donuts with sad words written in the icing and blue velvet cupcakes."
The pop up is the brainchild of PR specialist Emma Thomas in the U.K. “as a way to lift the stigma around mental health issues in a light and easy way.”
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The pop up will run on Aug. 23 from 7-11 p.m. and Aug. 24 from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. All proceeds will benefit the Westside LA branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. RSVP to the event on Facebook. To get involved, contact host Rebecca Swanner at secretmarmalade@gmail.com.
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