Seeding the City Event - Saturday, 4/23
Saturday, April 23, 2022
11:00 – 5:00 PM
Helms-Wide Event
The Southland was once a garden of Eden. Now, as Los Angeles continues to build up its cityscape, connection to the land is out of reach for many. This rupture was underscored by the pandemic, when access to clean air, open space, plants and pets became an essential tonic.
But talented and creative designers are finding ways to green the City in ways beyond the traditional backyard, injecting trees onto rooftops, flowers under transit lines and plants into defunct concrete pools. They are reclaiming the wild and bringing back long-vanished birds and bees. Artists and writers are creating works reflecting on new ways of coexistence with all species.
Seeding The City celebrates the 21st century garden in Los Angeles with a daylong program of talks, tours, and popups, featuring some of LA’s leading landscape designers and thinkers, including:
Show & Tell at Arcana Books 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Join artbook enthusiast Jason E.C. Wright, founder of Burntsienna Research Society, for a ‘Show & Tell’ at Arcana: Books on the Arts. He will share books on gardens and green spaces as considered by artists, architects, photographers and designers.
Join artbook enthusiast Jason E.C. Wright, founder of Burntsienna Research Society, for a ‘Show & Tell’ at Arcana: Books on the Arts. He will share books on gardens and green spaces as considered by artists, architects, photographers and designers.