Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

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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.

1 Overview
2 Notable Acts Who've Played At Lemp
3 See Also
4 External links

[edit] 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 in artistic endeavors. While the all-ages venue frequently hosts small concerts, the performers (chosen by the Board 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 a social 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 as noise rock, noise pop, art rock, or noise music. Recently there has been a shift to having more punk 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" called NoisefestSTL.

Less publicized are the meetings held by the Lemp Neighborhood Association, concerning crime and special projects for the community.