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We can't wait to see you at Summer Solstice, an ar We can't wait to see you at Summer Solstice, an artist-led evening celebrating the longest day of the year ☀️ Featured at this celebration is a communal picnic envisioned by chef Jihee Kim of Perilla LA, platforming seasonal banchan and Korean fermenting practices using local produce, and artist Eva Aguila, whose work spans video, sound, and installation, with a focus on foodways and the histories of the Mexican diaspora. Their collaborative summer menu merges Korean and Mexican culinary traditions, emphasizing shared ingredients and harvesting practices. ☀️ Eva Aguila is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist and organizer. Her work centers on oral histories of the Mexican diaspora and her ancestral ties to rural Michoacán, exploring memory, ephemerality, and Indigenous Futurism through time-based media. She is also the co-founder and Board President of Coaxial Arts Foundation, an artist-run nonprofit dedicated to experimental sound, video, and performance. ☀️ Jihee Kim is the chef and owner of Perilla LA, a neighborhood banchan shop that blends Korean culinary traditions with local Californian produce. Her culinary journey began in Busan, South Korea, where she grew up immersed in the flavors and techniques of her family's restaurant, founded by her grandmother nearly four decades ago. More about the program, artists, and tickets at the link in bio! 🎫 @evaguila @cjihee_kim @_perilla.la @olivekimoto @herbclub_la @oof_dre @cassmarketos @livingearth.la @audubon_debspark Support for Summer Solstice is provided by William Grant & Sons. Special thanks to The Audubon Center for their enduring partnership.
Summer Solstice ☀️ an artist-led evening celeb Summer Solstice ☀️ an artist-led evening celebrating the longest day of the year. Hosted at the Audubon Center at Debs Park, the evening will unfold through a series of new work and gestures by artists exploring the concept of rituals, both traditional and contemporary, that connect us to the natural world and to each other: ☀️ A communal picnic meal envisioned by chef Jihee Kim of Perilla LA, and artist Eva Aguila, emphasizing shared ingredients and harvesting practices among Korean and Mexican culinary tradition ☀️ A live performance by musician and artist Olive Kimoto ☀️A self-led plant walk through Debs Park designed by Andrea Jimenez of Herb Club LA  ☀️A compost offering by artist Cassandra Marketos ☀️ with durational solar sounds from Living Earth More about the program, artists, and tickets at the link in bio! @evaguila @cjihee_kim @_perilla.la @olivekimoto @herbclub_la @oof_dre @cassmarketos @livingearth.la @audubon_debspark Support for Summer Solstice is provided by William Grant & Sons. Special thanks to The Audubon Center for their enduring partnership.
Spanning from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025, AC and The Spanning from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025, AC and The Brick collaborated on ECOTONES, a series of four ecofeminist programs exploring local agriculture, foraging, food and herbalism as ritual, and biodiversity: 🌱 ritual paintings and a Kamayan Feast with Paige Emery (and chef Ria Dolly Barbosa) 🌱 a screening and foraged food with Meech Boakye, featuring Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna 🌱 a SPROUTIME kids workshop with Leslie Labowitz-Starus  🌱 a gathering and communal offering with Mexico-based colectivo amasijo (and chef Fatima Juarez of Komal) ECOTONES took place in conjunction with Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism at The Brick, and as part of the Getty Foundation’s ambitious initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, as part of a region-spanning cultural moment, reaching vast audiences interested in the intersection of art, food, feminism, and sustainability. Thank you to the artists and chefs, and all who attended these programs, and to our partners at The Brick, Arlington Garden, the Audubon Center at Debs Park, and ArtCenter! Support for this program series was provided by Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, and Olivia Marciano. @paigeemery_ @thebrick_la @arlingtonpasadena @colectivo_amasijo @riadollybarbosa @ghostyboi @audubon_debspark @leslieartlab Images: Paige Emery: The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology, September 2024. Photos by Jessica Howes. Meech Boakye: watering, October 2024. Photos by Gina Clyne. Leslie Labowitz Starus: a SPROUTIME kids workshop, November 2024. colectivo amasijo: a circular offering, March 2025. Photos by Gina Clyne.
To mark the beginning of spring, AC and The Brick To mark the beginning of spring, AC and The Brick hosted Mexico City-based colectivo amasijo for a communal offering and performance. The artists invited audiences to intertwine with the Milpa cycles, a five thousand year old agricultural system, and to perform a ritual that has transcended time, blurring boundaries and reproducing a cycle that has been passed down through generations. The performance gathered us to bind ingredients foraged from around Los Angeles, and culminated in a meal made by chef Fatima Juarez of Komal. Many thanks to Arlington Garden for inviting the artists to forage in the garden in preparation for this performance, to colectivo amasijo for their practice, care, and work in this program, to chef Fatima Juarez and the team at Komal for preparing the lunch, as well as our friends at The Brick and ArtCenter for collaborating to bring it all together 🌽 on the occasion of LIVE ON EARTH. Materials designed by Dafne Osorio @66.6669.66 @colectivo_amasijo @komal.molino @thebrick_la @arlingtonpasadena @artcenteredu @pinchefatima_ Images: colectivo amasijo, a circular offering, 2025. Produced by Active Cultures and The Brick with ArtCenter College of Design. Photos by Gina Clyne. (@ginaclyne )
Thank you to all who joined for Yasmine Ostendorf- Thank you to all who joined for Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: Fungal Teachings under the peppercorn tree at the @audubon_debspark ! 🍄 Together we spent the afternoon drawing from the Let’s Become Fungal! Oracle Cards, examining the mycelium for a model of interspecies collaboration in social and environmental change. We did exercises on how to move through different notions of time, on borrowing language from the world of mycology, how to collaborate across borders, species, communities and disciplines and many other fungi-inspired topics. We will be continuing to collaborate with Yasmine and these topics over the coming years, deepening our understanding of the fungal world. We look forward to seeing you at future programs to explore the interconnectedness of ecological systems into creative practices and everyday life.
At LagoAlgo during Mexico City Art Week, we gather At LagoAlgo during Mexico City Art Week, we gathered with chefs and organizers Saqib Keval and Norma Listman of @masalaymaiz, in conversation with curator Paola Santos Coy, to explore the deep intersections of migration, colonization, and culinary traditions—and how their work actively challenges white supremacy, extractive food systems, and labor inequities. Their approach to food is deeply political, shaped by Norma’s early practice as an artist and cook in the Bay Area’s art community—a history in which her role is often overlooked—and Saqib’s work with People’s Kitchen Collective, which drew from the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program. Across their organizing, research, and restaurant practice, they insist on fair labor, collective care, and the necessity of rethinking dominant food narratives. The room was filled with our friends, partners, and artists, so many of whom are deeply committed to the impactful work at the confluence of art, food, and ecological practice. Deep thanks to our wonderful partners at @lago_algo for making this program possible, and to all who joined us in considering these urgent questions.  Images: 3. The MSG Club with Masala y Maiz and featuring Tommie Smith, a project by Glenn Kaino and Niki Nakayama, produced by Active Cultures, Mexico City, 2018. Photo by Ana Lorenzana.

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