It seems a shame to have to wait for California to make reusing washing machine water legal when, with the help of the Homegrown crew, I can start watering my plants with it today. Urban garden rebels Erik Knutzen and Lora Hill lead the way down the illicit path of hacking one’s washing machine to reroute greywater into the garden. In their hands-on workshop their guerilla plumbing tactics will be revealed and the day will culminate with installing a working system.
WHEN: 11:00am-2:0pm
ADMISSION: $50
LOCATION: specified upon reservation
RESERVATION REQUIRED:www.homegrownevolution.com/2009/08/homegrown-evolution-summer-workshops.html
Meet up with Ari Kletzky, creator of the Islands of LA project, and enjoy a picnic on the traffic island at San Vincente & Del Valle Drive near Beverly Hills. I think this is a good “starter” island for me, sounds posh. I love that Ari is pushing us to rearrange our notions about public space and rediscover the easily missed “in-between” spaces. A post-picnic stroll through the other islands on San Vincente will follow an early streetcar route laid down in 1906.
Fallen Fruit, the artist collective known for teaching Angelinos how to enjoy fruit grown in public spaces, debuts its first solo exhibition, “United Fruit.” Juxtaposing the seductive pop imagery of the banana with the corrupt South American banana corporations, Fallen Fruit unearths the complexities of this ubiquitous fruit with a series of photographs and video installations. The opening reception, complete with bananas for eating and playing around with, will feature a participatory performance “Are You Happy to See Me?” Exploring the social significance of the world’s most popular fruit could not be tastier.
What exactly is a straight line? The rooms we inhabit, the grid-like layout of our streets and the shelves where we store our belongings all speak to us in straight lines. Visit the Institute for Figuring’s online exhibit, “Hyperbolic Space,” as it examines our human-created world of rectilinearity.
With the belief that storytelling and learning about science are an important marriage, physicist and author Brian Greene has blended the traditional Icaraus myth with black hole research in his new book “Icaraus at the Edge of Time.” Accompanied by full-color images from the Hubble Space Telescope, “Icaraus” is an all-ages book that aims to explain the mind-blowing scientific discoveries around black holes – “regions of space threaded by such powerful gravity that anything venturing too close is unable to escape.” Join Greene for a discussion and book signing of “Icaraus” at CalTech.
