Farmlab SalonJoel TauberFriday, April 6 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Sick-Amour

Sick-Amour follows Tauber’s Flying Project, a story culminating in the artist's flight 150 feet above the desert, suspended from helium balloons and playing the bagpipes; and his Underwater Project, where Tauber translates his movement underwater during 40 scuba dives into music.

About Sick Amour

Description: In his new work, Sick-Amour, Joel Tauber adopts a lonely and forlorn sycamore tree stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot in front of the Rose Bowl. The tree – like most parking lot trees – suffered many indignities. The tree was starved for water and oxygen by the asphalt that surrounded it, it was attacked by swarms of pathogens and pollutants, it was aggressively pruned, and it was hit by cars. Out of love for the tree and as a symbolic gesture pointing to our need to care for the things stuck in our urban jungles, the artist has been caring for this tree directly - watering it, building tree guards to protect it from cars, planting seeds to help it create offspring, constructing giant earrings for the tree, persuading the City and the Rose Bowl to remove the asphalt beneath its canopy, and getting the approvals to begin constructing a permanent monument to the tree.

To see a 5-minute video preview and to read more about the project, visit www.joeltauber.com.

About Joel Tauber

Joel Tauber received his MFA degree from Art Center College of Design. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; at the Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany; at the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and at Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, Montana. Tauber has been included in the "California Biennial", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; “The Gravity in Art”, De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands; “Happy Believers, the 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany; “Still, Things Fall from the Sky”, UCR/ California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; “Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles", Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France; “Eco-Lux: Art in Light of Ecology 1953-2006”, Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles; “Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, Austria; and “To Believe Much More Than That”, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab Public SalonGeorge HermsFriday, March 30 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Garden of Brokenness
GALLERY TALK


Join Farmlab Artist-In-Residence George Herms as he discusses Garden of Brokenness, by Farmlab Team, an exhibition on view at the Farmlab Exhibition Center from February 23-June 1, 2007.

Herms will also be available to discuss his large body of other works.

About George Herms

“Like a lean jazz quartet, Herms sets the mood as much with what is there as with what is not. In an era where assemblage artists fixate on the cute essentials of thrift store finds, Herms abstracts the detritus of society into an improvisational solo encouraging the things to become something else within his sculptures and collages.” – Mat Gleason, ArtScene, 2005

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Under Spring HostsSquare Dance & CabaretSaturday, May 19@6:30pm

FROM THE EVENING'S PRODUCERS:

Farmlab Public SalonCasey Coates DansonFriday, March 16 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Who's Got The Power?
Film Screening & Discussion

Join Casey Coates Danson, executive producer of the documentary film, "Who's Got The Power?" for a screening and discussion.

About The Film

"Global warming is the environmental problem of the 21st century."
--Kert Davies, Research Director, Greenpeace May, 2005

"Clean coal is a lie. There’s no such thing as clean coal."
--Harry Sebock, underground coal miner since 1979--

"The nations in the lead of this next energy revolution, the one that takes us beyond fossil fuels, it’s a safe bet to say, they are going to be the power house countries of the 21st century."
--Barbara Freese, Environmental Attorney, Author “COAL – A Human History” May, 2005

From the coal-scarred hills of Appalachia to the sun drenched suburbs of Los Angeles, to three Category 5 hurricanes within three months in 2005 in the Southeast, eight days of non-stop rain in the Northeast, record breaking heat globally, people are becoming increasingly vocal about the hazards of global warming. They are demanding practical and achievable solutions, in particular, championing the development and use of renewable energy resources to safeguard the earth for future generations.

Who’s Got The Power, a forceful, new documentary film, addresses head on the reality of global warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, its attendant dangers in the form of carbon dioxide emissions---and presents genuine and workable solutions. The film proposes that the use of renewable energy – solar, wind, biomass and geothermal, are viable alternatives to our dependence on fossil fuels that bring about the dangerous climate changes that result in global warming. From the vantage points of world-renown scientists, environmental activists, physicians, financial advisers, designers, builders, coal miners and others, the global warming debate unfolds. In addition, inner city and suburban consumers in America, Germany and Japan share their personal experiences with solar-powered housing.

According to the New York Times, (August 5, 2005) the worldwide global solar market has grown roughly forty percent a year in the last five years, driven in large part by Germany. Germany consumes thirty-nine percent of the world’s solar panels; Japan, thirty percent; and America only nine percent. Against the backdrop of the American landscape, Who’s Got the Power demonstrates that we do not have to savage our terrain, destroy our water sources or befoul our air in order to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of modern life. Who’s Got the Power? argues that we are capable of being on a par with the Germans and Japanese in terms of solar energy, and shows how harnessing this limitless resource can make a difference.

This film also recognizes the critical role of our built environment. Since two-thirds to one half of the nation’s electricity is used in buildings, we can have the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time if we begin with the built environment. Buildings are a direct and important resource in insuring our environmental future. Making our buildings more energy efficient can help reduce our use of electricity and fossil fuels. Powering them with the sun can and will quickly reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

These are among the perspectives in Who’s Got The Power?

• On the evolution of global warming: When we use the atmosphere as an un-priced sewer and we dump our waste like carbon dioxide and methane and industrial hazes, then we start to force the atmosphere in different patterns than would be natural.

• On environmental hazards: The twentieth century stands out as the warmest time in history… 90% of the glaciers in the world are melting. Here in Glacier National Park, the Grinnell Glacier has already melted sixty-three percent and only has a few more decades to survive… Six hundred and fifty three billion metric tons of ice, an area larger than Luxembourg, has broken off the Larsen B Ice Shelf, which has existed on Antarctica for twelve thousand years.

• On photovoltaics: In one second, the sun produces enough energy to supply the world for one thousand years. We need to make the transition to renewable energy now – not later. The power is in our hands.

• On preserving our land:

When you go in and you cut down all the trees on a mountain, from the top to the bottom, blow 700 feet off the top of it, take all the coal, boost a rock and gob over the hill into the creek, there’s nothin’ to be there. It destroys the game, it runs the grass out, it destroys the squirrels, the deer don’t have acorns to eat, and they move on.

We can lead the way in renewable energy. We can lead the way to a new future. And we can give our children a beautiful clean earth to live on. But we’re not doing that. We’re addicted to comfort. And we’re selling our children’s feet to buy ourselves fancy shoes.

• On our built environment:

The truth is that good design is no more expensive than bad design… A few pioneers are incorporating photovoltaics and solar design principles. Not only are the structures beautiful, they are in harmony with the environment. Solar technology can be employed anywhere, even on a Manhattan skyscraper.

• Never before
• On our obligation:

Ultimately it’s not going to be the scientists, it’s going to be us, it’s going to be the politicians and the leaders and the people in their own households, everybody in a massive global cooperation in order to solve this grand problem.

Powerful, enduring, reliable and accessible worldwide, the sun is our greatest energy resource. The sun’s renewable energy – solar energy – can supplement or replace the limited and costly fossil fuels we now use, reduce our dependence on the utility grid, and stem the tide of global warming.

In a cogent and incisive hour, filmed across America, in Germany and Japan, Who’s Got The Power? examines these vital issues and in so doing is an essential primer.


About Casey Coates Danson
Casey Coates Danson As the mother of two children and a strong sense of stewardship for the earth, Casey Coates Danson established Global Possibilities in 1996, a non-profit devoted to promoting the use of solar energy in the built environment as a viable and natural alternative to fossil fuels in order to mitigate climate change. Prior to that, Danson co-founded with her former husband, the American Oceans Campaign, now merged with Oceana. Danson served on the Board of Governors of the Parsons School of Design, the Board of Directors of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and chaired the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Jimmy Carter Work Project in Los Angeles and as an honorary board member of the Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation.

For Danson, it started as a simple need for natural light; there never seemed to be enough inside her homes. As an environmental design student at the Parsons School of Design in New York in the 1970s, she learned to appreciate how the Anasazi and the master builders of the Renaissance incorporated natural materials into their designs for self-sufficient cities. As news of the expanding hole in the ozone layer came to light in the 1980’s, her consciousness about the destructive nature of how we heat and power our homes expanded exponentially.

Through Global Possibilities, national conferences, educational initiatives, public outreach, speaking engagements and film, Danson seeks to remind people that the sun is virtually an untapped source of free, constant energy, and pleads for an energy transition – even If it’s with one photovoltaic panel at a time.

Danson has left a living legacy in the form of two solar homes that she designed and built in the nineties – a 1,500-square-foot, Pueblo-style adobe home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a grand, 7,000-square-foot contemporary Los Angeles home now occupied by a family of seven. Both demonstrate that the sun’s energy can be used to power houses at any end of the design spectrum.


Farmlab Location
Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab Public SalonMonica HoweFriday, March 9 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

"Psyched on Bikes:
Pedaling a two-wheel solution in the capital of cars"
Also appearing: Liz Elliott of C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange)

Join bicycle activist Monica How -- outreach coordinator for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition --and friends as they discuss living and pedaling in the City of Angels.

About Monica Howe
"Monica Howe sees herself as the voice of a two-wheeled future, dedicated to the notion that an urban bicycle culture will make this a better place to live." -- John Balzar, Los Angeles Times, 1/2/07

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab SalonSophy WoltersFriday, February 23 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Microcredit 101

Sophy Wolters offers this primer on the basics of microcredit, also known as micro finance.

Micro finance is an upside down development model, giving empowerment to people and developing from the bottom up. We will start with a little history and describe how microfinance changed the world. Then we will talk about methodologies and how we use it. We will cover the use of the social collateral as an empowering tool. And then as a group we discuss how micro finance can be used in the US.

About Sophy Wolters

Sophy Wolters has lived and worked in Guatemala for the last 20 years. She worked in development programs ranging from re-forestry, child nutrition and early stimulation to running Friendship Bridge, a microcredit “plus” organization working in six departments in Guatemala. Her main focus has been working with people in the field. She feels that micro credit has turned the world of development upside down and is passionate about micro-finance as a tool to eradicate poverty and exclusion in the world. At the moment she is consulting for Namaste Direct and other NGO’s.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab SalonGerardo Vaquero RosasFriday, February 16 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

"Cornhenge in Winter
Farmlab Salon En Espanol with Gerardo Vaquero Rosas"

Join Farmlab Artist-in-Residence and agriculturalist extraordinaire Gerardo Vaquero Rosas for a look behind the scenes of Cornhenge. Cornhenge is the metabolic sculpture located on the grounds of the Los Angeles State Historic Park.

Rosas will be introduced by Lauren Bon, the Not A Cornfield project artist.

About Gerardo Vaquero Rosas

While Gerardo Vaquero Rosas was only recently named a Farmlab Artist-in-Residence, for the record, he'd like itknown that he's been an artist since he was 10-years-old. Rosas is a former South Central Farmer. He was born in Tehuitzingo Puebla, Mexico.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab SalonDiego Cardoso and GuestsFriday, February 9 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Diego Cardoso, the MTA's Director, Central Area Planning Team, visits Farmlab.

No further information is available at this time.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab SalonHelen SamuelsFriday, February 2 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Earth Restoration:
Youth, Our Greatest Tool for Sustainability

Activist, organizer, and coalition-builder Helen Samuels will discuss her experiences working with young people on collaborative cultural restoration projects, environmental justice issues, and related long-term issues. Samuels, the subject of a recent PBS profile, will display examples of recycled products.

About Helen Samuels

Helen Samuels is among a rare group of innovative and courageous social entrepreneurs who are changing the way the world views solutions to our environmental and social challenges. With dogged determination, compassionate action and hands-on grassroots organizing, Helen has spent more than 20 years inspiring and supporting at-risk youth in Mexico and the United States. Her passion particularly extends to the “4th SECTOR” - the massive and fastest growing social sector of the post-development world with over 1 billion youth who live in poverty and devastation in and around degenerating urban dwellings in Mexico and the United States. Her dedicated efforts have lead to the creation of more than 150 youth-run projects which have hence spawned an additional 500 projects themselves as they have replicated their sustainable practices through other youth networks worldwide.

The following are the URLS to a few of her projects and affiliations:

TEKIO: http://www.tekio.net (offline for renovation)

ASHOKA: http://www.ashoka.org/

PBS: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/globaltribe/voices/voi_samuels.html

LA Earth Crew: http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat/unchs/press/mural.htm

GANGS: http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=805

Peace One Day: http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/educommits
(check HOPI RUN)

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Farmlab SalonJenna Didier and Oliver Hess, of Materials & ApplicationsFriday, January 26 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

"M&A: The Garden of Forking Paths:
Growing an organization from the seed of an idea to an influential force to push new ideas forward in architecture and landscape design."

Jenna and Oliver of Materials & Applications (M&A) will review some of the highlights of the past four years of installations at their outdoor project space in Los Angeles. A discussion of what gets selected to be constructed and the joys and troubles involved will illuminate on a micro scale the trends of the construction industry
on the macro scale. They will also talk about community building and the value of removing individual authorship or control of projects to increase productivity and diversity of outcomes.

About Jenna Didier, Oliver Hess, and Materials & Applications

Jenna Didier is in pursuit of a new approach to the built environment. A lifelong interest in the creation and use of public space has led to continual opportunities to expand upon her experience in construction and fabrication. In 2002, Ms. Didier founded a non-profit outdoor exhibition space called Materials & Applications.

Ms. Didier is the principal of Fountainhead, a water feature design and engineering company. She completed a Permaculture Design course in 2005. She also collaborates artistically with Oliver Hess in a continuing effort they call infranatural.

Oliver Hess has years of experience as a visual effects and
installation artist. He works primarily with responsive environments and virtual reality systems. He uses the skills he has developed in his work to create art that has been displayed in galleries around the globe and to assist international artists with new media installations.

As Techncal Director of Materials & Applications(M&A), Oliver works to ensure all aspects of the installation process maintain a technical relevance. The implementation of technology is not for show, but to assist the fabrication/ installation process and sensitize the installed piece to visitors, enhancing their experience of the space around them. Oliver maintains several side projects including: www.choubun.com and www.infranatural.com.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

2008 Farmlab Public Salon & Programs & Exhibition Center ScheduleSalons Always Free-of-Charge

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS:

July 5, 2008 @ 3pm
Dance Performance
Steve Kopolwitz:
TASKFORCE
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July 11, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Special 75th Anniversary Salon
With Manuel Castells
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COMPLETE CALENDAR:
DATES AND PROGRAMS ARE LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY; NEW PROGRAMS ARE POSTED AS THEY ARE BOOKED

October, 2008

October 3, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
My Daily Constitution
More Info. TBA

October 10, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Carol Wells
Can Design Stop A War?
More info. TBA

October 17, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
More Info. TBA

October 24, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Ben Sullivan & Special Guests
Where Do John McCain & Barack Obama Stand on Science?
More Info. TBA

October 31, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
More info. TBA

September, 2008

September 5, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
F.L.A.G. Community Gardeners
More Info. TBA

September 12, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Los Angeles Urban Rangers
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September 19, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Lots Angeles -- On Parking in L.A. and Elsewhere
Donald Shoup Erick Knudsen (C.L.U.I.), Ali Jeevanjee, and More Guests TBA
In Tandem With 2008 Park(ing) Day LA
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September 26, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Ismail Farouk
More Info. TBA

August, 2008

August 1, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Father Gregory J. Boyle
Homeboy Industries
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August 8, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Wayne Wilson
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August 15, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Brent Blair
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August 22, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon
Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison
More Info. TBA

August 29, 2008
Labor Day Weekend
No Farmlab Public Salon Today

JULY, 2008

July 4, 2008
Independence Day
No Farmlab Public Salon Today

July 11, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Special 75th Anniversary Salon
With Manuel Castells
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July 18, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Miroslav Mandic
On Johnny Appleseed
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July 25, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Holly Myers
On 'Party Favors'
More Info. TBA

JUNE, 2008

June 6, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
HIT+RUN
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June 12, 2008 @ 8:00pm
Massimilian Breeder Presents
Wurlitzer Repetitions
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June 13, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Telic: The Public School
Elise Co, Sean Dockray, Chandler McWilliams & Nikita Pashenkov
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June 20, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Leo Limon
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June 23-29, 2008 @ Various Times
Workshops; Performances
Yuko Kaseki
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June 27, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Jane Tsong & Donna Conwell
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MAY, 2008

May 2, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Marco Kusumawijaya
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May 9, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Goran Djordjevic
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May 16, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Sean Percival, Kristen Rutherford, Stephen Johnson
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May 17, 2008 @ 4-11pm
Old-Time Social (@ Under Spring)
Triple Chicken Foot
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(Not a Farmlab production)

May 18, 2008 @ 2-10pm
EPFC Youth Film Festival
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(Not a Farmlab production)

May 22, 2008 @ night time TBA
Cluster
W/ Lucky Dragons & Other Special Guests
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(Not a Farmlab production)

May 23, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Michael Dear, Hector Manuel Lucero, & Jaime Riuz Otis
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May 30, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Mariachi Hotel: Where The Music Lives
Evangeline Ordaz-Molina, Jose Delgado, Janet Favela & Sergio Mendez (of Mariachi 2000)
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APRIL, 2008

April 4, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Jim Heimann
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April 5, 2008 @ 2pm
How To Make A Junker Garden
At the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, Calif.
More Info. TBA

April 11, 2008
Programming Note: There will be no Farmlab Public Salon on this date.
More Info. TBA

April 18, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Alexis Bhagat
Radical Cartography
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April 25, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Raj Patel
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MARCH, 2008

March 7, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Joshua Decter
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March 14, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
(Special 2-hour 3-D Planning Workshop)
James Rojas, Simon Pashuca & Georgia Sheridan
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March 21, 2008 @ 1pm (Special Time)
**UPDATE: SALON IS POSTPONED -- SPEAKER UNABLE TO COME TODAY FROM EAST COAST
NO FARMLAB PUBLIC SALON ON 3/21 -- OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES!**
Farmlab Public Salon
Alexis Bhagat
Radical Cartography
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March 28, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Islands of LA
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March 30, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Improvisation Duo
Tatsuya Nakatani (Percussion) & Oguri (Dance)
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FEBRUARY, 2008

February 1, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Qingyun Ma
Dean of the USC School of Architecture
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February 8, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Melani Smith and Sumire Gant
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February 15, 2008
Farmlab Public Salon @ Noon
Bob Sipchen
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February 22, 2008 @ Noon
There is no Farmlab Public Salon this week.

February 29, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Youth Urban Stewards
Northeast Trees
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January, 2008

January 4, 2008
Programming Note: There will be no Farmlab Public Salon on this date.

January 11, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Lane Barden
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January 18, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Mieke Gerritzen and Koert Mensvoort
"Next Nature"
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January 25, 2008 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim
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DECEMBER, 2007

December 7, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Robert Gottlieb
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December 8, 2007 @ 7:00pm
SPECIAL TIME
This is The LA River / Sustainable LA
Short Films -- curated by Echo Park Film Center
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December 14, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Film Screening:
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
With remarks by directors Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
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December 21, 2007
Programming Note: There will be no Farmlab Public Salon on this date.

December 28, 2007
Programming Note: There will be no Farmlab Public Salon on this date.

NOVEMBER, 2007

November 2, 2007 @ Sunrise (6:14am)
La Ofrenda
Sunrise Ceremony
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November 2, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Peter H. Diamandis, M.D.
Chairman & CEO, X Prize
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November 3, 2007 @ 7:30pm
La Ofrenda
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November 9, 2007 @ Noon
Framlab Public Salon
Felicity Powell, Ansel Krut
More Info. TBA

November 9, 2007 @ 7:30pm
Exhibition Opening Reception
Crystal Ship: A Family of Artists Searching For Arcadia
Felicity Powell, Ansel Krut, Saskia and Hannah Krut-Powell
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November 9-December 28, 2007
Exhibition
Crystal Ship: A Family of Artists Searching For Paradise
Felicity Powell, Ansel Krut, Saskia and Hannah Krut-Powell
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November 15, 2007
Sand Art Ceremony - In Long Beach, Puvunga village
La Ofrenda Ceremony - dismantling, at Under Spring / Farmlab
More Info. TBA

November 16, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Judith Lewis + Friends
More Info. TBA
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November 17, 2007
The Liberty / Ancestor Pole Project
Long Beach, CA
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November 23, 2007
Programming Note: There will be no Farmlab Public Salon on this date.

November 30, 2007
Farmlab Public Salon
Reading from the book: Not A Cornfield: History / Site / Document
Featuring: Michael Dear, Michael Ned Holte, Ruben Mendoza, Janet Owen Driggs
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OCTOBER, 2007

October 5, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Cara Baldwin
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October 12, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Mike Davis
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October 13, 2007 @10am-noon
Tongva Cultural Workshop
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October 19, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Lucas Reiner
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October 20, 2007 @ 10am-Noon
Mayan and Azteca Mask-Making Workshop
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October 26, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Angela Johnson Meszaros
of the California Environmental Rights Alliance
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October 27, 2007 @ 10am-Noon
Maya and Azteca Mask-Making Workshop
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SEPTEMBER, 2007

September 7, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Mike Blockstein & Reanne Estrada
of Public Matters
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September 8, 2007 @10am-noon
Tongva Cultural Workshop
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September 14, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Adolfo V. Nodal
"L.A. City Arts: Notes on Cultural Planning..."
W/ Introduction by Laura Chick
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September 14, 2007 @ 8PM
SPECIAL TIME -- SPECIAL EVENT
Salon of Found (and stolen) Dance
Curated by Melinda Ring
Part of the "Accidentally on Purpose" program series
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September 15, 2007 @ 10am-3pm
SPECIAL TIME -- SPECIAL EVENT
WORKSHOP -- Salon of Found (and stolen) Dance
Curated by Melinda Ring
Part of the "Accidentally on Purpose" program series
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September 15, 2007 @ 7:30PM
SPECIAL TIME - SPECIAL EVENT
Puppets After Hours
Part of the "Accidentally on Purpose" program series
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September 15, 2007 @10am-noon
Tongva Cultural Workshop
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September 21, 2007 @ Noon
Programming Note:
There will be no Farmlab Public Salon today.
Farmlab will be in Chinatown, participating in the annual Park(ing) Day happening.

September 28, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Andrea Azuma and Elizabeth Medrano
"Food Access in South and Central Los Angeles: Mapping Injustice, Agenda for Action"
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September 29, 2007 @10am-noon
Tongva Cultural Workshop
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AUGUST, 2007

August 3, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Leonard Aube
Dolphin Tales: Portrait of a Troubled Sea
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August 4, 2007
Special date and time: Saturday night through Sunday morning, 6pm-6am
"Tonalism"
Music + More
Featuring: Dublab and many others
Part of the "Accidentally on Purpose" program series
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August 10, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Deborah Kaufman
"Thirst" -- Discussion & Documentary Film Screening
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August 11-31, 2007
Special date, time, and location
Opening Reception @ 7-10pm
"Jazz Opera Workshop" -- Featuring art installations, "Amaze," by Farmlab Team and "The Artist's Life: A Free Jazz Opera," by George Herms
Phantom Galleries LA; 269 N. Beverly Drive; Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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August 17, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
"Park(ing) Day" -- Creating Ephemeral Parks
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August 24, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Andy Lipkis
"Helping Nature Heal Our Cities"
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August 31, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Kristina Haddad's One-Woman Short Play,
"Save Sheldon"
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JULY, 2007

July 6, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Lauren Bon
Bees & Myth
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July 13, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
"Do Real Planning: 14 Ways to Make L.A. a More Sustainable City"
Jane Usher, Diego Cordoso, Mike Woo
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July 20, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Helen Lessick
Soil Salon + Workshop
(special time: two hours long)
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July 27, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Matthew Moore
"From Agriculture to Suburbia: Cultivating the Oasis"
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July 28, 2007
Special date and time: Saturday @ 7:30pm
"The Camel's Back"
Dance + Live Music + Performance
Featuring: Nels Cline, Yuval Ron, Oguri, and many others
Part of the "Accidentally on Purpose" program series
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JUNE, 2007

June 1, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Joe Linton
L.A. River Expert
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June 8, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
SIMPARCH with Steve Rowell
Hydromancy, Gloom and Doom, and Dirty Water Initiative
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June 15, 2007 @ Noon
Shannon Spanhake
"Tangible Hacks of the Physical World"
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June 16, 2007
Agbins on Skid Row
NOTE: LOCATED ON SKID ROW, IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES -- MORNING EVENT
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June 16, 2007
"American Symposium," featuring Farmlab as one of many participants
NOTE: LOCATED AT THE ARMORY, IN PASADENA -- EVENING EVENT
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June 22, 2007
There is no salon scheduled for today.

June 29, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Moisture - Claude Willey and Deena Capparelli
"Native Plants and Dusty Paths: Experiments in the Inland Empire (2002-2007)"
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MAY, 2007

May 4, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Brian Morgan
Carousel Historian
(Related to the exhibition, "Garden of Brokenness")
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May 11, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Joyce Lapinsky
Urban Farming
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May 18, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Farmlab Team
"Garden of Brokenness"
Gallery Talk w/ Lauren Bon & others
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May 19, 2007
Los Angeles Old-Time Social
Presented At Under Spring
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May 25, 2007 @ Noon
Fallen Fruit
(Dave Burns and Austin Young)
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APRIL, 2007

April 6, 2007 @ Noon
Joel Tauber
"Sick-Amour"
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April 13, 2007
SPECIAL TIME: 5PM
DOUBLE SPEAKER FEATURE!
Farmlab Public Salon
Katherine Steele
Urban Permaculture Guild
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April 13, 2007
SPECIAL TIME: 7:30pm
DOUBLE SPEAKER FEATURE
Farmlab Public Salon
Paul Stamets
Mushroom Expert
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April 20, 2007 @ Noon
Olivia Chumacero
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April 20, 2007 @ 7-11PM
Under Spring Gallery
Opening Reception
Edward Porter
"Cascade"
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April 27, 2007 @ Noon
Burt Sperber
Valley Crest Landscape
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MARCH, 2007

March 2, 2007 @ Noon
JUST ADDED - LAST MINUTE BOOKING!
Ehecatl Rojas
Los Angeles Youth Network
"A discussion about LA homeless youth"

March 2, 2007
CANCELLED - SPEAKER UNABLE TO APPEAR
OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES! - Farmlab Team
Farmlab Public Salon
Amy Franceschini
"Victory Gardens 2007+"

March 9, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Monica Howe
"Pysched on Bikes:
Pedaling a two-wheel solution in the capital of cars"
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March 16, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Casey Coates Danson
"Who's Got the Power?"
Film + Discussion
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March 23, 2007 @ Noon
William Patzert
Oceanographer Extraordinaire
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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March 30, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
George Herms
"Garden of Brokenness"
Gallery Talk by the Farmlab Artist-in-Residence
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FEBRUARY, 2007

February 2, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Helen Samuels
"Earth Restoration: Youth, Our Greatest Tool For Sustainability"
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February 9, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Diego Cardoso
Los Angeles County Metropolitian Transportation Authority

February 16, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Gerardo Vaquero Rosas
Gallery Talk by the Farmlab Artist-In-Residence
"Cornhenge in Winter"
A Salon En Espanol
(with English translations)
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*SPECIAL PROGRAM*
Feburary 20, 2007
The 2010 Imperative
Global Emergency Teach-Im
Co-sponsored by M&A, AIA, and Farmlab
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February 23, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Sophie Wolters:
"Microcredit 101"
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February 23, 2007
FARMLAB EXHIBITION CENTER
GRAND OPENING
GARDEN OF BROKENNESS
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JANUARY, 2007

January 12, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Mark Allen
"Transdimensional Art Galleries, Solar Robotics, and Other Strategies for Rethinking Community and Alternative Space."
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January 19, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Joe Geever, Jeanette Vosburg, and Paul Herzog
"Agitation: The Social, Political, Geological, and Biological meaning of Water in L.A."
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January 26, 2007 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess
"M&A: The Garden of Forking Paths:
Growing an organization from the seed of an idea to an influential force to push new ideas forward in architecture and landscape design."
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DECEMBER, 2006

December 15, 2006 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Fritz Haeg
"Edible Estates & Other Great Projects"
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NOVEMBER, 2006

November 10, 2006 @ Noon
Farmlab Public Salon
Stephen Glassman
Artist-in-Residence
Port of Los Angeles

Farmlab Salon Joe Geever, Jeanette Vosburg, and Paul Herzog Friday, January 19 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

"Agitation: The Social, Political, Geological, and Biological meaning of Water in L.A."

Representatives of the Surfrider Foundation and the Ballona Network will present their work on developing a Ballona Creek Watershed-wide plan for simulataneously cleaning-up surface water and recharging ground water basins, restoring hydrological stream/creek function and riparian habitat and creating and linking open spaces.

This campaign for "green infrastructure" utlizing treatment wetlands and other tools combines the efforts of the Network to create a greenway connecting the Ballona Wetlands to the LA River with Surfrider's mission to improve water quality and the coastal zone's health. In addition to explaining the treatment concept, we would like to share our year of experience with working within the governmental structures set up to do water quality improvement planning, select projects and fund them.

In addition, the trio might touch on the state of our working relationships with academia and sister organizations. Surfrider has just been awarded a grant for a small amount of money from the Patagonia Co. to continue its organizing work as well as create educational materials (brochure, poster, video) about natural treatment options.

About the Participants

Joe Geever is the Southern California Regional Manager for Surfrider Foundation (www.surfrider.org).

Jeanette Vosburg is the Coordinator of the Ballona Network. (www.ballonanetwork.org).

Paul Herzog is a community organizer and an independent contractor for a six-month Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority (MRCA) project to identify and get in the ground connections between key beginnings/destinations and the Ballona Creek bike/pedestrian path).

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Wildflowers Duo, Jean Copeland to Perform Under SpringFriday, January 19 @ 7:30pmFree-of-Charge

Live Music + Dance
Wildflowers Duo (8pm)
Jean Copeland (7:30pm)

(Photo Credit: Nourdinne El Wariri)

Dancer Oguri and percussionist Adam Rudolph have toured together worldwide with their improvisational performances. In the spirit of the under the bridge space, the pair, performing as Wildflowers Duo, will explore methods of interaction and structure for the creation of a performance piece. Jean Copeland will precede the dancers with a Tibetan bowls concert.

Under Spring Location

Under Spring / Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Performances are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

About Oguri
www.lightningshadow.com

Oguri, a resident of Southern California since 1990, conducts Body Weather Laboratory, a forum for investigating the body and dance (founded by Min Tanaka in Japan, 1978). He has taught and performed worldwide. He is an artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California. Oguri has received support from the California Arts Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, the Rockefeller Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, The Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Arts Partners Program, The Getty Center and an Irvine Fellowship in Dance (2000), and in 2005 an Irvine Foundation Dance: Creation to Performance grant for Caddy, Caddy, Caddy!, William Faulkner Dance Project at the REDCAT March 1-4 at Disney Hall.

Oguri’s new dance work investigates Faulkner's epic novels The Sound and the Fury; Absalom, Absalom!; and A Rose for Emily transmuting the mythic power of Faulkner’s fiction into exalted physical form. Accompanied by Feltlike with Paul Chavez’s visceral live music score, Oguri and his dance troupe, Honeysuckle, draw on an uncanny mix of subtlety and stark expressiveness to delve into the heart of Faulkner’s gothic family narratives. Artist Hirokazu Kosaka’s set expresses a sublime simplicity with brooding textures of Faulkner’s Deep South.

Presented by the REDCAT, Cal Arts’s terrific black box theater in Disney Hall. This is the perfect venue to see Oguri who “takes us as deep as dance or theater can go” Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times. Oguri previously participated in the Not A Cornfield project.

About Adam Rudolph
www.metarecords.com

Originally from Chicago, composer and handrummer/percussionist Adam Rudolph has, for the past three decades, appeared at festivals and concerts throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Japan.

Rudolph is known as one the early innovators in what is now called “World Music”. In 1977, he co-founded The Mandingo Griot Society with Gambian Kora Griot, Foday Musa Suso, one of the first bands to combine African and American music. In 1988, he recorded the first fusion of American and Gnawa (Moroccan) music with Sintir player and singer Hassan Hakmoun.

Active as a performer in the Los Angeles creative music scene since 1979, Rudolph has also contributed by producing concerts and running his own Meta Records label. In 1998 he organized the three-day Bootstrap Festival, Los Angeles, presenting over 75 artists from many local and national cultural backgrounds. From 1992–97 he organized and performed a free weekly concert series of improvised music for children at the Jazz Bakery which featured guitarist Kevin Eubanks and Ralph Jones.

He has received grants and compositional commissions from the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the NEA, Arts International, Durfee Foundation and American Composers Forum. Rudolph previously participated in the Not A Cornfield project.

About Jean Copeland
Tibetan Bowls

Jean Copeland most recently performed for the UCLA Fowler Museum exhibition, "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama." She created a sound score for Oguri's "Height of Sky: A Report From the Desert," at Barnsdall Gallery, and ceremonial music for Roxanne Steinberg's "Corn Fence Fire Dance" at Not A Cornfield. Jean facilitates meditation workshops using Tibetan singing bowls and Qigong exercises. She also dances and has trained with Body Weather Laboratory since 2000.

Machine Project's Allen Talks Shop

In front of a noontime crowd of about sixty people, Machine Project's Mark Allen delivered a multi-media presentation last Friday, January 12, at Farmlab.

The lecture, Q&A, powerpoint, and book show-and-tell session, was part of the weekly Farmlab Salon series. The series happens every Friday, at noon, at the Farmlab headquarters located at 1745 N. Spring Street, Unit #4, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

"An art space is a permissive space," Allen said. He later noted: "I'm interested in how you can use art as a system to investigate certain practices."

Indeed, Allen discussed many of the projects, classes, and exhibitions that his Echo Park venue has previously presented -- and the diverse crowd that the gallery sets out to attract.

As is to be expected during a Machine Projects overview, topics pinballed from oragami to smoke bombs to a couple kissing inside a coffin to DORKBOT to moonshine to fruit jam to pneumatic tubing to sewing.

Allen also noted the various institutional collaborators that have partnered with Machine Projects - that who's who of the Los Angeleno art and science scence included the Institute for Figuring, Materials & Application, Fallen Fruit, and the Echo Park Film Center, among others.

Farmlab Salon Mark Allen, of Machine ProjectFriday, January 12 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

"Fried Food, Transdimensional Art Galleries, Solar Robotics, and Other Strategies for Rethinking Community and Alternative Space."

Mr. Allen will be discussing the following...

1. Machine's illustrious history, fantastical events, and mysterious collaborators,

2. Creating communities based on intellectual and social life,

3. Informal and semi-formal pedagogy for artists and other
interested parties.

About Mark Allen and Machine Project

Mark Allen is the founder and executive director of Machine Project. Machine Project is a non-profit art and event space dedicated to exploring the directions, deviations and connections between art, science, technology, music and literature. For more information please visit www.machineproject.com or read a recent cover story in the LA Weekly.

Farmlab Location

Farmlab / Under Spring, 1745 N. Spring Street #4, LA, CA 90012
Across the street from the site of the Not A Cornfield project, in a warehouse colocated at Baker Street and N. Spring Street

Salons are always free-of-charge, all ages welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Trees of South Central Farm Doing Fine At Huntington

The trees that were recently boxed and transported to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from the former site of the South Central Farm are doing fine, according to the most recent update provided by Farmlab's expert colleagues at Valley Crest Tree Company.

The fruit on a pair of banana trees were affected by late December chilly weather. The bananas have since been covered. No other problems have been reported.

The trees are being temporarily stored at the Huntington, as planning continues for a future monument, to be located elsewhere, to the trees of the South Central Farm.

At the Huntington, the trees are being safeguarded next to the Children's Garden, and not far from the Chinese Garden that is currently under construction.