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PROGRAM
Interpretive Tours of the 32-acre living sculpture available at 3pm.
Drum Circle with artist & drummer Michael McCall from 4-7pm. (Bring your own drum or other instrument.)
Corn Planting with gardener Jaime Lopez from 4-7pm.
Oral History Booth with RadioSonideros from 4-7pm.
Story Series featuring Councilmember Ed Reyes 6-7pm.
ABOUT STORY SERIES Story Series highlights community history of the Cornfields, Chinatown, Downtown, and Lincoln Heights through storytelling, poetry, and performance writing. Intimate, engaging spoken word brings to life stories of LA past and present. The series is curated by Hilary Kaplan.
ABOUT THE STORY SERIES PERFORMERS
Ed P. Reyes has served on the Los Angeles City Council since April 10, 2001. A native of Northeast Los Angeles, Reyes represents Council District 1, including many of the neighborhoods he grew up in. As chair of the Los Angeles River Ad Hoc Committee, he has brought a renewed focus to the once-ignored L. A. River. He helped secure more than $3 million for the Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan, a neighborhood driven project that includes increasing park space, enhancing water quality, environmental protection, and improving flood control. Councilmember Reyes attended UCLA where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree from UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Reyes lives in the northeast Los Angeles community of Mount Washington with his wife of 20 years, Martha, and his four children Natalie, Eddie Jr., Adan and Angel.
Hilary Kaplan, Story Series curator and
LA native, founded and directs "Gathering at the River," the
LA River oral history project. Her work as a writer, editor,
and oral historian has appeared in the Los Angeles Public
Library's Central Library, Pond Gallery, Fourteen Hills,
The Next American City, and select department stores. She
is Kaufmann Humanities Scholar at San Francisco State University,
where she is an MFA candidate in poetry.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART 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
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 Annenberg Foundation. |
