Celia Hollander at the Audubon Center (photo by Glen Han)
Friends! Join us at noon for a live collaborative performance underneath the peppercorn tree with friends and heroes Ben Varian & Sarah Safaie.
Spontaneous and channeled, these ongoing collaborations (and rare live performances) sit in as spiritual check-in’s among partners, a dialogue on a higher plane of intuition filled with love, trust, and safety in a world where we increasingly need to fight to preserve and maintain these basic tenants of connection.
In addition to being a lifer touring musician as a solo artist (and drummer with Pearl & The Oysters, Dent May, among others) Ben is one of the great connective tissues who opened & helps to operate Scribble in Highland Park. Sarah is a champion of many, supporter of scenes, and fantastic saxophone shredder who’s largely been on tour with Death Valley Girls this past year.
Bring a blanket, a friend, a picnic, and pull up with us.
All ages & donation based!
Music begins 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.
Sarah is a jazz & classically trained saxophonist who cut her teeth in Brooklyn’s underground noise scene before landing in Los Angeles in 2020. She formed the art rock band Purple Witch of Culver, has performed, written, and recorded with many bands, and is a current member of Death Valley Girls.
Ben Varian is an astute observer of the human condition and a longtime traveller of America’s underground DIY scenes. He’s released solo and collaborative records for the past 10+ years and currently programs and organizes with Scribble in Highland Park.
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.