Project Food / LA @ MAK Day

12-1 pm: A graphic workshop with Handbuilt Studio for Project Food / LA. In preparation for the Edible Endeavors Convention, Yuju Yeo leads participants in generating foodie propaganda – banners, flyers, posters, etc.

3:30-6 pm: Edible Endeavors Convention – A survey of food advocacy practices in Los Angeles. In a rapid-fire series of presentations, a diverse set of individuals and organizations will present their work on behalf of food issues in the city.

Project Food / LA presents this part rally, part political convention, part lecture and part panel discussion. Bring the posters and banners from the earlier graphic workshop.

Keynote by Evan Kleiman, host of Good Food on 89.9 KCRW. Featuring

Presentations by:

Community Services Unlimited

Fallen FruitFed Up with Hunger, an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles

Garden School Foundation

Highland Park Coop

Locali Market

M&A Gallery

Project Food / LA

Public Matters

Root Down LA

UEPI at Occidental College

Watts Labor Community Action Committee

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…and live Skype-cast to Materials and Applications in Silverlake in conjunction with its Fish Taco Party during Silver Lake Art Crawl.

Other MAK Day events:

1-2 pm: Curatorial walk-through on the exhibition Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism with guest curator Nader Vossoghian

2:30-3:30 pm: Panel discussion: A discussion of exhibition and display strategies in relation to infrastructure, do-it-yourself methods, social space engagement, and graphic communication.

Moderated by MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer

Panel Participants:

Nader Vossoghian: architectural historian and guest curator of Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism

Roston Woo: designer, writer, educator, and co-founder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy

Linda Pollack: artist, creator of Habeas Lounge

Alexis Rochas: architect, creator of a rooftop garden prototype SynthE Green Roof

Juliette Bellocq: graphic designer, Handbuilt Studio

Hungry Urbanism #2

HUNGRY URBANISM #2

WATTS: THE POTENTIAL FOR SUSTENANCE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

6:30 - 9:00

Watts is outside of the area of the fast-food moratorium but faces many of the same issues. Are healthy food options available in Watts? In Watts, what are the challenges, successes, stories, and realities of the food system and the implications for prosperity, health, education, and community life?

PANELISTS:

ANNE MARIE CARTER

THE SEED LADY OF WATTS

YESENIA ERAS RN,MSN/MPH,APHN-BC

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE SUPERVISOR

DR. DAVID MARTIN

CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY

JANINE WATKINS

CONSULTANT, WLCAC

TIM WATKINS

PRESIDENT, WLCAC

MODERATOR:

MICHAEL PINTO

PROJECT FOOD LA FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL-OSBORN ARCHITECTS, AND EDUCATOR - SCI-ARC

WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE

FREEDOM HALL

10950 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE

LOS ANGELES, CA 90059

Hungry Urbanism #1

Hungry Urbanism #1
Diagnosing the Los Angeles Food System

HABEAS LOUNGE
7+ FIG Art Space
7&FIG at Ernst & Young Plaza
735 S. Figueroa Street
Middle level
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Validated parking in 7+ FIG parking structure, entrance on 7th and 8th Streets, west of Figueroa.

Hungry Urbanism is funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

Space for this event generously donated by arts>Brookfield Properties.

The City of Los Angeles is hungry. Healthful, nutritious food is not moving consistently to the people who need it. While a collective consciousness about food is increasing, the root causes of this stagnant urbanism are rarely discussed.

Urban infrastructure has evolved to conspire against neighborhoods seeking nourishment. In this discussion we will attempt to understand the Los Angeles food system and its problems. Roads, highways, rail lines, shipping lanes, markets, laws and codes contribute to the challenges and must be considered when contemplating solutions.

Hungry Urbanism brings together a diverse panel to address the question of the role of urban infrastructure in the issue of equitable access to healthy food choices in our city.

Panelists:
Kate Harvey, Urban Designer, Osborn
Mark Vallianatos, UEPI Food and Justice Program, Occidental College
James Rojas, Urban Designer, Metro
Jennie Cooks, Chef, Slow Food Movement, Food Advocate
Marcela Oliva, Mapping LA Project, Los Angeles Trade Tech College
Moderator: Michael Pinto, Founder-Project Food LA, Architect and Educator

Project Food LA is a group of educators, chefs, artists, architects, planners, nutritionists, growers, and caring individuals. This is a diverse group with a shared concern: improving access to healthier food choices for our communities.

The Southern California Institute of Architecture's (SCI-Arc) mission is to re-imagine the edge: educating Architects to engage, speculate, innovate.
SCI-Arc's, Community Programs is an active arm of the Institution that seeks to respond to specific community needs through application of architectural design research and implementation.

The HABEAS LOUNGE is a built environment created by LA artist Linda Pollack, specifically constructed to foster and animate civic dialogue. Topics of past LOUNGE series include urban planning, constitutional issues, the economy, and city history. arts>Brookfield Properties has invited Linda Pollack back to transform the 7+FIG Art Space into an incubator for ideas about Downtown L.A. The 8-week public event, called Habeas Lounge: A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation, is both a map based-exhibition and a space for visitors to interpolate their own ideas and visions about our shared city.


HABEAS LOUNGE
7+ FIG Art Space
7&FIG at Ernst & Young Plaza
735 S. Figueroa Street
Middle level
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Validated parking in 7+ FIG parking structure, entrance on 7th and 8th Streets, west of Figueroa.


Hungry Urbanism is funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. Space for this event generously donated by arts>Brookfield Properties.

Organic farming David Mas Masumoto in LA today and tomorrow

There was a great interview today on LA's KPCC Air Talk with "award-
winning author, popular columnist and spokesman for Organic farming
David Mas Masumoto about his new book, “Wisdom Of The Last
Farmer” (Free Press) that is about reconnecting to the land and how
the future of food could shape our destinies."

Here's the interview
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2009/08/11/havesting-legacies-from-the-land/

From his website on his latest, upcoming book: "Wisdom of the Last
Farmer - Harvesting Legacies from the Land."
"Hailed by The New York Times as “A poet of farming” and the Los
Angeles Times as the “Rockstar Farmer” who “uses his farm as Thoreau
did his Walden Pond,"
http://www.masumoto.com/literary/books/wisdom_last_farmer.htm

And his earlier work:
Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer
http://www.amazon.com/Heirlooms-Letters-Peach-Farmer-Valley/dp/1597140643/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250016920&sr=1-2


He has 2 appearances in LA, today and tomorrow:
August 11 Tuesday evening 7 pm
in Pasadena, CA at Vroman’s Books
Reading and discussion

Tomorrow night, Aug 12 he will be at the Santa Monica Library at 7pm
Reading and discussion

compiled by ben clayton of south-la-green-roundtable

the science barge_floating garden lab

http://www.good.is/post/the-science-barge/
http://www.groundworkyonkers.org/sciencebargepage2.html

Science Barge

Groundwork Hudson Valley is excited to have just acquired The Science Barge, a prototype, sustainable urban farm and environmental education center designed by NY Sun Works. It is the only fully functioning demonstration of renewable energy supporting sustainable food production in New York City. The Science Barge grows tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce with zero net carbon emissions, zero chemical pesticides, and zero runoff. It is now docked in downtown Yonkers just North of the Yonkers Pier.

From May to October 2007, the Science Barge hosted over 3,000 schoolchildren from all five New York boroughs as well as surrounding counties as part of our environmental education program. In addition, over 6,000 adult visitors visited the facility along with press from around the world.

The Science Barge is now open for educational programming and public tours. If you are interested in signing up for a tour or educational program please contact devon@groundworkhv.org.

To view a calendar of events click here.

We are always looking for weekend volunteers! To sign-up for our mailing list and recieve information about volunteer opportunities and fun events please send an e-mail with your contact information to emily@groundworkhv.org.

If you are interested in volunteering to help with maintenence on the Barge, we are open Thursday evenings from 6pm-8pm and Sunday mornings from 10am-12 noon. Feel free to come by, help out, and get your hands dirty on the Barge!

If you would like to be trained to volunteer as a weekend docent, our training session will be held Thursday, May 28th from 6-8pm. Please contact emily@groundworkhv.org if you are planning to come by!

food on the go...

http://universalgrocer.blogspot.com/