Photo by Sarah M. Golonka The LA Ladies Choir serenade Hello Kitty for her birthday celebration

• Name: Hello Kitty’s Birthday Party
• Date: Sunday November 1, 2009
• Location: Three Apples exhibit at Royal-T, Culver City
• Who was there: Gary Baseman, Buff Monster, Sushi Girl, Lady Sinclair, Piper Ferguson, Miwa Matreyek, the LA Ladies Choir, and Hello Kitty (of course).
• What was served:: yummy Vanilla Bakeshop cupcakes

What does any girl want on her birthday? I suppose to be surrounded by her friends. Over 2,000 of them came out on November 1st to celebrate Hello Kitty’s birthday.

Photo booth action!

Hello Kitty’s Birthday Cake was made up of hundreds of Vanilla Bakeshop cupcakes

Lady Sinclair spun tunes for Hello Kitty’s birthday breakfast. Among other things this birthday girl can dance.

Flux curated a full day of fabulous activities including a birthday breakfast, a toy workshop with Three Apples artist Buff Monster, a photo booth, a live figure drawing workshop with Three Apples artist Gary Baseman, and invited the beautiful LA Ladies Choir to share their songs with Hello Kitty and her friends.

Photo by Sarah M. Golonka Buff Monster’s Hello Kitty Toy Workshop

Photo by Sarah M. Golonka More Birthday Photo Booth action

Photo by Sarah M. Golonka Party-goers enjoying the birthday festivities

Photo by Sarah M. Golonka Three Apples Artist Gary Baseman hosted a “(sort of) Figure Drawing Workshop.” He is pictured here with two of the models. Gary’s friends Toby and Hello Kitty also modeled.

Photo by Sarah M. Golonka Hello Kitty Sushi workshop participant with her creation

As the magic hour grew near, guests gathered around Hello Kitty’s tower of cupcakes. A contingent of the LA Ladies Choir flowed in and sang a four song set including “Oh My Beautiful World” written by Becky Stark; “To Be, To See” written by Aska Matsumiya; “Ocean and Ground” written by Becky Stark and “Pray to us all” written by Ariana Delawari. At that moment the birthday girl came out and the Choir started everyone in singing “Happy Birthday.”

After a short set of their amazing music, the LA Ladies Choir got all the party-goers to join in singing Happy Birthday to the special girl.

This is the final weekend of the Three Apples exhibition, so if you haven’t seen it yet be sure to check it out. As part of the Hello Kitty 35th Anniversary there are exhibits and celebrations happening all over the world, so be on the look out Hello Kitty’s trademark bow. See the full set of photos from Hello Kitty’s Birthday party.