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MUSIC PROGRAM
Live concert by Very Be Careful
FILM PROGRAM
Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal: Matt McCormick
America the Beautiful: John Cannizzaro
The Man Who Planted Trees: Frederick Back
Leche: Naomi Uman
The Distant: Jason Harris
Livingroom: Lisa Marr
ABOUT FRIDAY NIGHTS @ NOT A CORNFIELD
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.
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 THE PERFORMERS
Very Be Careful -- “From the Colombian Caribbean land of fishers and farmers, lovers and assassins, where accordion-narrated tales spill from shops, homes,
bars, and beauty salons, Very Be Careful has imported a vintage sound and an urgent agenda – DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!! And, like it or not, punker or sonidero, new-ager or new-waver, b-boy or cowboy, sober, drunk, or saved, few can elude the rump rousing radar of a VBC parranda…. When it comes to adaptability and pertinence, the VBC are champs, and vallenato music can break the barriers of “cool” and raze the stakes of ‘hip.’” – From the band’s website 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.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts center committed to providing equal and affordable access to film and video education and resources for all members of our diverse and vibrant community via a community microcinema space, free and nominal cost media arts education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service department, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers. The RadioSonideros collective is dedicated to mapping the city of L.A. through sound. For more information contact: radiosonideros@yahoo.com |
