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PROGRAM
Interpretive Tours of the 32-acre living sculpture available at 3pm.
Drum Circle led by one of LA's premiere African drummers
Malik Sow and including an expanding group of artists and
drummers who are making this a weekly happening 4-7pm. (Bring
your own drum or other instrument.)
Corn tending and harvesting with gardener Jaime
Lopez from
4-7pm
Story Series featuring Lewis MacAdams 6-7pm.
"Struggle
for the Cornfield: The real story of how a community coalition
won 32 acres of public space in
downtown LA"
ABOUT STORY SERIES
Story
Series highlights community history of the Cornfields, Chinatown,
Downtown, and Lincoln Heights through storytelling, poetry,
and performance writing. Intimate, engaging spoken word brings
to life stories of LA past and present.
ABOUT THE STORY SERIES PERFORMERS
Poet Lewis MacAdams is the founder and
Chairman of the Board of Friends of the Los Angeles River
(FOLAR), which led
the struggle to save the Cornfield switching yard from
becoming a million square feet of warehouses. The
author of, "Birth of the Cool," a history of the
idea
of "cool," his most recent book of poems is The
River,
Books One, Two, and Three. He is working on a
biography of Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling
Stone
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center. ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation. |
