Eve Matin & Friends at Listen To Music (Photo by Ben Wilson)
Write it down. Saturday, September 12th, we’ll see you back underneath the great oak of La Tierra de la Culebra Park for another round of Leaving Records’ deep spirited donation-based all genre community collaboration and collective manifestation.
This month we’re blessed with a site specific performance arranged by Elliot Bergman. Rachana sets the tone DJ’ing throughout the afternoon, and we hope to see you out for this essential afternoon in LA.
Neighborhood parking is super limited. Carpool, ride share, take the train, ride a bike if you can.
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Elliot Bergman is a musician, record producer, and sculptor with an expansive practice rooted in the relationships between sound and form. His world orbits around form, frequency and vibration. His work finds ways to transform materials into objects that resonate with spiritual, political and ecological overtones.
Bergman’s musical and visual art practices are uniquely intertwined. He often builds the instruments and sound sculptures that form the basis for his compositions.
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)