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Leslie Labowitz Starus: a SPROUTIME kids workshop

Event Details

DATE: November 2, 2024 TIME: 11am – 1pm

LOCATION: Audubon Center at Debs Park

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TICKET PRICE: Free

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Join us on November 2 for an afternoon under the Peppercorn Tree with artist, activist, and urban farmer Leslie Labowitz Starus! Considered an expert in the field of sprouting and an authority on urban farming and farmers’ markets, the artist will lead children and their families through educational craft making and tasting of green superfoods.

For over 30 years, Labowitz Starus has created performances and installations as SPROUTIME. This social art project began as a garden-sized urban sprout farm in the late 1970s, but quickly developed into an organic farm and small business. She expanded her operations to a three-quarter acre agricultural site and food processing facility in the San Fernando Valley in LA County, growing, manufacturing and distributing organic products throughout Southern California. More info can be found at www.sproutime-is-now.com

There will be hummus and salad to make, taste, and share. Families are welcome to pack their own lunch for their little ones and encouraged to bring water and sunscreen as the event will be held outdoors.

Accessibility:

The Audubon Center is wheelchair accessible, from street level. Only service dogs are allowed at the Audubon Center, so please leave your furry friends at home. Parking is limited, so if the small lot is full please park along Griffin Ave. and use the dirt walking path up to the Center. Further information can be found at https://debspark.audubon.org/visit

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About the Artist

Leslie Labowitz Starus

Leslie Labowitz Starus, Los Angeles artist and entrepreneur, is best known for her public performance work on violence against women in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy from 1977–82. In 1972, she was a Fulbright scholar in Germany, where she worked with Joseph Beuys, and considers herself an Art/Life artist. Since 1980,...

About ECOTONES

This event is part of ECOTONES, a collaborative programming series presented on the occasion of the exhibition Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism at The Brick. Four public programs will be led by an artist or artist-collective to explore local agriculture, foraging, food and herbalism as ritual, and biodiversity.

Through this collaboration, these two L.A.-based art organizations are modeling an ecofeminist ethos by sharing authorship, and collectively generating materials and resources. Taking place in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s ambitious initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, ECOTONES will be part of a region-spanning cultural moment, reaching vast audiences interested in the intersection of art, food, feminism, and sustainability.

Support for this program series is provided by Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, and Olivia Marciano.

About The Brick

Founded in 2005 as LAXART, The Brick is a nonprofit visual art space that promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. A platform for emerging and under-recognized talent, its mission encompasses thematic exhibitions that engage with the present moment. We believe that contemporary art is a means of understanding key issues of our time with all their inherent contradictions. Contemporary art assumes many forms. Rather than provide answers, it raises questions. Through a range of offerings, we contextualize contemporary art both socially and art historically. Our programs are free and designed to be accessible to the general public.

Credits

Active Cultures’ programs this year are made possible through the generous support of its Board of Directors; the Gatherers Annual Fund; the Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Coalition; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan; the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture; and the California Arts Council.