[Lapg] Fw: On 5/26 • Evolver LA Presents: Spore 1.4 "The Concord of LA • Resilience starts @ hOMe"

Mon May 24 21:07:41 PDT 2010

Hey folks,

This Wednesday's Evolver offering has a decidedly permaculturesque (!?) bent... this is an interesting group...check it out !  --S

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Evolver Los Angeles Presents: Spore 1.4 • The Concord of LA "Resilience starts at hOMe"

Wed May 26, 2010 • 7:00-10:30 • $11
Crescent Heights United Methodist Church
7866 Fountain • 90046

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Evolver Spore Theme: Local Resilience 
In our globalized world, the basic survival needs of many communities are difficult to manage. Multinational corporations exercise near-total control over the systems that sustain and connect us—from food and clean water to energy and communication. At the same time, natural disasters such as the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile seem to be occurring with more frequency and intensity, while man-made catastrophes like the ongoing economic collapse, the mine tragedy in West Virginia and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continue to loom.
As we saw with the precarious response from FEMA after Hurricane Katrina, reliance on inept government bureaucracies in times of crisis is a perilous act of faith. In a world fraught with uncertainty, an empowered and resilient local community is the best defense.
How would you and your community react if you suddenly had to fend for yourself?
Most people lack the vital tools and techniques to help them prepare  for the mounting challenges in these uncertain times. 
May's Evolver LA Spore will focus on innovative methods that  self-reliant societies are using to achieve local resiliency. We will  examine the idea that our leverage point as a civilization is our  personal and community growth, and how our community's destiny beacons  us to seek new beginnings through art, cooperation, permacultural and  basic survival principles. Come join us in building a new story here in  LA.
We will be discussing our project with the Fruit Tree Planting  Foundation at Hopiland in Arizona where over one thousand trees will be planted  just days before the spore! 

Evolver Los Angeles is honored to be screening the award-winning short documentary, Dive!, a film about dumpster diving in Los Angeles and the incredible amount of food thrown away in the U.S. every year. The film will be introduced by Director, Jeremy Seifert. We are aslo thrilled to have Torin Dunnavant of TreePeople and Janet Owen Driggs of Metabolic Studios join us to discuss the incredible work they are doing here in Los Angeles. One of Reality Sandwich  and Evolver.net's founding member, Jonathan Phillips will also join us as he discusses the future of Evolver. 

NiceCream, the nation's first raw vegan ice cream shop, will be serving up their incredible concoctions all night! Founder Mollie Engelhart will be on site and spend a few minutes talking about her product and inspiration. Yum!

SCHEDULE
7:00 - Doors Open
7:15 - Opening Welcome + Baza Novic + Jonathan Phillips E+SM
7:25 - Fruit Tree Planting Foundation Hopiland slideshow
7:35 - Torin Dunnavant, TreePeople
8:00 - Mollie Engelhart, NiceCream
8:10 - Jeremy Seifert + Dive! Documentary
9:00 - Janet Owen Drigss + Metabolic Studios "Strawberry Flags"
10:00 - Resilience RoundTable 
10:15 - Q+A
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Founded in 2009, NiceCream Vegan Ice Cream is the brainchild of owner/CEO Mollie Engelhart, striving to offer healthy, vegan, raw treats using local, sustainable, and organic ingredients. Mollie is an avid vegan cook and healthy lifestyle enthusiast. Together with her husband, she embraces the “home to homestead” lifestyle in their suburban Los Angeles home. They grow over 2000 pounds of produce a year, and have over 40 fruit-producing trees all on their 1/4 acre lot.

Born in Tyler, Texas and raised in Colorado, Jeremy Seifert has also spent time in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He has a B.A. in English Literature from John Brown University and a M.A. in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary. He currently works for the San Damiano Foundation, a nonprofit organization that produces films which focus on the plight of the poor and those working to help them. Dive! Is Jeremy’s first film. When he isn’t dumpster diving, Jeremy can be found in Pasadena with his wife, Nuf, and two sons, Finn and Scout.

Local Los Angeles environmental non-profit, TreePeople, unites the power of trees, people and technology to grow a sustainable future for Los Angeles. TreePeople’s mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the process as a model for the world. Torin’s presentation will discuss simple, nature-based solutions that communities can use to transform their surroundings into “functioning community forests.” Torin Dunnavant is the Community Engagement Manager for TreePeople.

Janet Owen Driggs is a curator, writer, artist and member of the Metabolic Studio team. Her recent publications include texts for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Hammer Museum, ArtUS, Art Review, and the anthology Kolibri. As Founding Director of the AIM international festival of time-based media and later as co-director of LA's Raid Projects, Driggs has curated and organized events with, among other institutions: MOCA, Los Angeles; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Hong Kong Art Center. Recent curatorial projects include Performing Public Space (La Casa del Tunel, Tijuana, 2010) and Not A Cornfield, a touring exhibition about the work of Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio. The Metabolic Studio is a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation

What is the Metabolic Studio?
Derived from the Greek word for change, “metabolism” is the process that  maintains life. In continuous cycles of creation and destruction,  metabolism transforms nutrients into energy and matter. Working to  sustain these cycles, theMetabolic Studio transforms resources into  energy, actions, and objects that nurture life. Led by artist and  philanthropist Lauren Bon, it is a studio for practice at the  intersection of art and philanthropy. There are two distinct arena's  within the Metabolic Studio: Farmlab and Chora. Farmlab is dedicated to  the preservation of living things in often-hostile urban environments.  Chora supports the intangibles that precede creativity.
Strawberry Flag is a revisionist vision of the American flag as a  self-sustaining system. An artwork in the form of a veterans’ program,  Strawberry Flag nurtures reclaimed strawberry plants.The harvest will be  used to make Veteran’s
Preserves. The preserves will be sold. All funds raised will be used to  de-alienate places that are meant for healing on Veterans’ Hospitals.

Act locally:::...:::Evolve globally  
Kick off your Lightning in a Bottle weekend with Evolver Los Angeles!

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UPCOMING EvLA APPEARANCES: Saturday, May 29 - Lightning in a Bottle. 12:30pm - 2pm

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Have you seen The Red Book on exhibit at the Hammer Museum yet? Join Evolver LA for a tour on June 5th. (More details coming soon!)

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CommunityLinks: 

Synergizing the Synergists

• Project Butterly & Shanti Generation 
presents: Yoga  Skills for Youth 
Facilitators Training (Phase One)
5/28-5/30

• Growcology: 
Is dedicated to sharing resources on gardening, edible  landscaping, sustainable living, and empowerment with our community

• Funkmeyers:
Summer 2010: Crop Circle Community in England

• Elevate Films: 
Elevate is a community of professional artists united by a calling to  awaken higher expressions of human potential through movies, music, art,  experimental media, and live events. 

•99 High Art Gallery:

• Los Angeles  Guerrilla Gardening: 
Gardening public space with or without permission.

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FREE EVENT PARKING:

* Please be quite when entering your car after the event, and  be mindfull to Leave No Trace.
EvLA

There are also public lots available.

Parking is also  available on Fountain

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What  Are Evolver Spores?

Evolver Spores are monthly events taking place in more than 30   cities around the world.

Spores are conscious gatherings pioneering a unique new social space blending Educational, Inspirational, Experiential, and Communal, typically including a combination of one or multiple short lectures/presentations, interactive group experiences, music, meditation, multimedia, and good old fashioned hangin' out.

Each month's Spore is on a theme collectively chosen by the Regional Spore Coordinators & the founders of Evolver. Past themes include Gift Economies, 2012, Peak Oil & New Energy, Psychedelics, Love, and other open-ended topics relating to consciousness.

The regional facilitators creatively plan their own events, inviting speakers, musicians, artists, healers, etc, from their local community, ranging from well known groups to individual experts.
Upcoming Spore Themes:

*June  - Life in  the Universe 
*July - New World Water 
*August - REaction

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