Celia Hollander at the Audubon Center
Friends! After taking a quick winter break we’re really looking forward to seeing you back underneath our beloved peppercorn tree this month. Our comrades in imagination Holy Pepperoni will be joining us from a land far far away to regale us with fables, featuring a live soundtrack by the exceptional Nigel Deane on strings.
When was the last time a friend simply read you a story? When was the last time you sat within a fairy tale culled from disparate regions of time and space to share a heroes journey of adventure and deepening community? We’ve been an enormous appreciator of Holy Pepperoni’s live readings and web series, as Anj and Hannah Rose (Pants and Jacket), dive wholeheartedly into stories that we can share with one another.
After catching these gatherings at Solarc and Scribble we couldn’t help but ask Holy Pepperoni to join us underneath the peppercorn tree for an afternoon journey together.
Bring a blanket, a friend, a picnic, and pull up with us.
All ages & donation based!
We’ll begin around 12:30p.
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A gentle reminder: please leave your adorable pups at home this afternoon as to not disrupt the Audubon Center’s ongoing habitat restoration efforts.
Holy Pepperoni - described as experimental, meditative, and full of heart - follows the story of two best friends Pants and Jacket, as they follow their childhood dreams and their dream world starts to collide with their waking life. Inspired by the thoughtful lessons of Mister Rogers and the spookiness and mystery of Scooby Doo, the Sundays intend to bring more thoughtful and beautiful storytelling to children's entertainment and for the young at heart.
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Nigel Deane (they/them) is a Los Angeles-based musician and educator. They have an extensive background as a composer, producer, and electronic musician, and as an orchestral, ensemble/band, and solo violinist/violist, for organizations including wild Up, Monday Evening Concerts, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and Opera Povera.
They have been working as a solo artist and with their band Fig and the Wasp to play with combining electronics, improvisation, experimentalism, orchestral composition, and songwriting into music that is accessible and forward-thinking. As a music teacher, Nigel is working to develop new pedagogical methods, formats, and materials to integrate their research of pedagogy that bring joy and cultural relevance into music education.
For 20+ years the Audubon Center at Debs Park has been a beacon for how conservation organizations can work within our cities to cultivate a deeper relationship between people and place. Through monthly hikes, restoration days, bird walks, field trips, movie nights, community festivals, and hosting gatherings like these each and every month, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has played an essential role in building a more diverse and inclusive conservation movement here in Los Angeles.
We’re so grateful for the humans of the Audubon Center, the advocacy that they champion in dialogue with local culture and native ecology, and it is an absolute honor to gather here together on the 3rd Saturday of (almost) every month.