Nicolas & Susana at Emerald Necklace Park (photo by Noah Klein)
Mark your calendars! The start of fall in Los Angeles brings us FOOD: A Convening, a coming together of artists, cooks, farmers, writers, and organizers working at the intersection of food, art, and ecologies loving stewarded by our friends of Active Cultures.
Across two days, we’ll convene through performance, presentation, workshop, and shared meals, shaped by four distinct themes: food as medium, system, archive, and territory. Food will be examined as artistic medium and site of critical research, as ecological system and economic infrastructure, as archive of embodied memory and cultural preservation, and as territory: the ground on which land return and the transmission of plant knowledge are being actively reclaimed and restored.
We’re so moved by the work that Active Cultures does, and will be supporting the very end of this convening with music in the courtyard of the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Dear spirits Nicolas Maldonado & Susana Pineda will share live improvisatory music to close out the gathering, and throughout the night we’ll also DJ some of our favorite sounds from throughout the world.
Click above to explore Active Cultures’ ticketing page, where you can look into all sides of this celebration & education, and rsvp for this moment of closure.
Active Cultures is a public arts nonprofit in Los Angeles that explores the intersection of art, food, and ecologies through artist-led projects and programs.
Throughout their programming, their purpose is to expand our assumptions around foodways, making creative spaces for gathering and shared experience, and to enrich our political, cultural, and sensorial relationships to food. Since their founding in 2018, AC has supported interdisciplinary practices by artists who consider hospitality an empowering gesture; who privilege community-building; and who work to make visible the critical stakes of cultural production, representation, and consumption.