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ABOUT MAYAN DANCE GROUP AJPOP TECUM
Tracing their ancestral Mayan roots to the northwestern region of Guatemala, Ajpop Tecum will be presenting traditional folk dances under the direction of Jose and Alicia Ventura. Ceremonial and cultural interpretations will be provided by Jose Leonardo, Artistic and Cultural Coordinator for the Eco Maya Earth Day Festival. Leonardo will also be discussing the relevance, meaning, and importance of the role corn/maiz plays in Mayan culture.
HUNAB KU METRICS
Come and explore the Mayan mysteries of how numbers and stars were used to create magnificent and elaborate temples. A presentation on Hugh Harleston, Jr.’s Earth/ matriX will be provided by the Arts and Humanities Program Director of State of the Arts, Jorge Luis Rodriquez. Harleston spent 25 years at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Mexico at Teotihuacan. He writes, “I was allowed to find a Mayan milestone, a marker on the road to unified space and time, a mathematical marker called a “factorial.” He concludes, “Our solar system, like life itself, is a mathematical game played by Hunab Ku, the Giver of Unified Measurement. Teotihuacan is a monument to mathematical truths.”
ABOUT NOT A CORNFIELD SALONS
Not A Cornfield Salons that bring people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project. Please note that this is the final salon of 2005. The series will reopen in mid-January 2006.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by the Annenberg Foundation. |
