It’s been a long time coming, and on Saturday 11/22 we’re gathering within the inspiring Terremoto office garden for an evening of music and camaraderie in an effort to raise funds for fighting against the overdevelopment of our native habitats and wildlands - from the Verdugo Mountains to the foothills of Orange.
Join us for a raffle, art auction, and an evening of heart affirming music from our friends Badlands, Logan Hone, Nighttime, and the Forgetmenots and hear directly from community coalitions No Canyon Hills and No Orange Heights about their ongoing organizing.
Together, we can each contribute towards the critical work of protecting hundreds of acres of wildlife habitat from destruction.
No Canyon Hills (NCH) is a community coalition forged in solidarity with the plant and animal communities of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles, ancestral land and unceded territory of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, and the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians.
Catalyzed by a proposal to build a luxury gated development on 300+ acres of intact native habitat in the Verdugos, NCH deploys cooperative actions and interventionist strategies across social, political, educational, and legislative registers. NCH works as a multiform entity to conceive and realize urgent anti-colonial land conservation solutions.
No Orange Heights has banded together to protect 400+ acres of Orange Hills from development by the Irvine Company & preserve this land as a regional park. Saving this land, by connecting Irvine and Peters Canyon Regional Parks, will create 1,245 contiguous acres of parkland, preserving wildlife corridors and creating new ones for people.
This is not just about stopping 1,058 houses; it’s about safeguarding a living legacy of biodiversity, history, and access to nature for generations to come.
poster design by Emma Kemp of No Canyon Hills
TERREMOTO is a landscape architecture design studio with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. As a team, they’re known for creating well built, site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while simultaneously challenging historical + contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions.
They co-steward TEST PLOT, helped to open Plant Material, and work towards a goal of building gardens not for this civilization, but rather, the next, and to destroy the system with love and kindness.