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

Tue May 25 21:10:18 PDT 2010

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Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Subject: On 5/26 • Evolver LA Presents: Spore 1.4 "The Concord of LA •
Resilience starts @ hOMe"
To: Lianne <liannegillooly at gmail.com>

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*Evolver Los Angeles*<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=fbf4e90a59&e=28acdb4167>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**
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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<http://evolver.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=12b90f03ed&e=28acdb4167>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<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=b670303636&e=28acdb4167>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!*,<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=b9f13775a3&e=28acdb4167>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<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=7ff3a5d8c0&e=28acdb4167>and
Janet Owen Driggs of Metabolic
Studios<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=281d6d59dd&e=28acdb4167>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<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=027661daa8&e=28acdb4167>will
also join us as he discusses the future of Evolver.

NiceCream<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=d5e907ad03&e=28acdb4167>,
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<http://evolver.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=367bbc3dcef2b9d2d1dbdf223&id=6b006a5039&e=28acdb4167>,
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

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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
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*August - REaction

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