Club Gay Gardens is back with their third annual Pisces Plantasia celebration! This year, we’re working together to share in the beloved festivities and are so grateful to our friends of Plant Material for hosting us within their Silverlake shop.
This evening together will be filled with native plant resources, music, soil science, art, tattoos, refreshments, Pisces yearning, and more. Come for the plants, stay for the feelings!
Green-House are DJ’ing, Compost Jam are improvising a set diving into the wonderful world of microbial projection, William Kennedy & Michelle Cutler are showcasing art, lamps, and wares made from food scraps and organic materials, and CasSsandra will have a new set of prints on hand. Solarc will be present to share teas and plant-based brews and more to be announced like tattoos and raffles! To keep up, make sure to follow along with our friends @clubgargardens.
Raffle will benefit our dear friends at the Dena Soils Project, please be in touch if you’d like to donate anything to be included:
The DENA Soil Project is a collaborative network of soil scientists, environmental planners, educators, land stewards, community organizers, and nonprofits, united in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire by a shared commitment to HEAL OUR SOIL.
Club Gay Gardens is a collective of queer volunteers established in 2022 who steward a native habitat parkway garden outside the Glendale arts nonprofit, Junior High LA. They strive to create a space that is educational and supportive for queer community members to develop their skills in landscaping and ecology while making friends and connecting with the neighborhood. By building a garden from an abandoned parkway strip, CGG provide an opportunity for community members to transform access to local green space and reimagine their roles as local environmental stewards.
Listen to their story in this interview by Hollywood Futurist on Orange Radio, or read more in last year’s LA Times article by Malia Mendez.
Plant Material is an ecologically and aesthetically opinionated store selling horticulture, garden tools and art objects of consequence. They believe that as individuals, families and communities, the time has come for us to begin tending our gardens and our city with a new ethic and reinvigorated botanical point of view. You know how most nurseries kind of just sell everything? Plant Material is not like that.
PM’s horticultural offerings are composed of a mix of natives, species wholly regionally appropriate to Southern California, and non-GMO edibles. No frivolous annuals, no twee succulents, never invasive species. In the belief that we need to contribute ecologically when able, let's invest in a perenially blooming future together.
In addition to more-than-human comrades, PM offers garden tools that are sustainably minded, ruged, and sourced from manufacturers who value labor and craft. They also dabble in art objects and ongoing creative collaborations that mine the endless depth and meaning of what a garden is. Current pieces can be found in their garden shops from our friends Sarah Rara (of Lucky Dragons) and Chris Kallmyer.