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Seeds and a dish with chicken and berries on a decorative table

David Horvitz performs at Soup & Tart: Los Angeles, June 8, 2023. 

Active Cultures is a public arts nonprofit in Los Angeles that explores the intersection of art, food, and ecologies through artist-led projects and programs.

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The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology

During this year’s fall equinox, artist Paige Emery created a Filipinx Kamayan feast in collaboration with chef Ria Dolly Barbosa, amidst the olive grove of Arlington Garden. As part of the ECOTONES series, the program offered a spread of food and flowers served on banana leaves, where we were seated on the earth and eating by hand—as Emery invited us to gather under the changing season’s sun and experience ecopoetic rituals interspersed throughout the course of the afternoon.

Paige Emery: The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology, 2024, produced by Active Cultures and The Brick at Arlington Garden Pasadena. Photo by Jessica Howes.