at La Tierra de le Culebra (Photo by Sam Lee)
Listen To Music Outside In The Daylight Under A Tree returns home!
We’ll see you February 14th at La Tierra de la Culebra for a two part site specific performance for harp with Eve Matin & friends. Bring yr blanket, picnic, friends, pups, little ones, and gather underneath one of Highland Park’s oldest and wisest oak trees.
We’ve also invited our friends of the Beehive Collective to table & introduce their work!
Peruvian-born harpist and composer Eve Matin has always experienced the world through a lens of deep listening and devotion. Born to Persian parents and raised within the Baháʼí faith, her practice as a musician is rooted in a belief in unity and the power of conscious knowledge put into action.
La Tierra de la Culebra was founded in the early 1990s as a response to the uprising that was spurred by the beating of Rodney King by LAPD. Artist Tricia Ward received a grant by Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs to create a healing space and hoped to create a park where she would not only showcase her sculptural work, but cultivate a place to experience nature. Reclaiming a lot just off of the 110, this park was built by neighbors working in community & for years was stewarded by the founding collective under the organization of Ward’s non-profit.
Today, this beloved pocket park is still loved and cared for by and in community. Largely stewarded by volunteer neighbors and Highland Park residents under the banner of La Culebra Action League, there’s puppet shows, live music, gardening, markets, and lots of love and care for maintaining this important community built green space.
(photo by Samanta Helou Hernandez)