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Rio de Cosas/River of Stuff PUBLIC ART CAMP


*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 08/05/2023
Fun, skill-building, discovery and camaraderie fill each day at Public Art Camp! Our curriculum activates youth voices & perspectives as they write their own poems using river-related word banks and make their own books with our teaching artists. Having formed images in their minds, campers embody these narratives in games foregrounding our interconnectedness; moving & improvising through the riverside landscape, discovering its animal residents whom we hope to welcome back to the River.

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Our summer camp headquarters are at Art in the Park, a full-service community arts center that was built in the 1920s. It is a unique gem amongst the City of Los Angeles Rec & Parks facilities. It has a shaded veranda, two bathrooms, a music room, an office, a project space and a community space -- and is surrounded by mature sycamores! A large new outdoor play structure is there for supervised bursts of all-out monkey-business during snack times and at lunch time. 

Fun, skill-building, discovery and camaraderie fill each day at Public Art Camp.

Schedule:
10:00 morning camper start time
12:30 lunch/ am camper end time - pick up 12:15 to 12:30
1:00 afternoon camper start time
3:30 camper end time - pick up 3:15-3:30

Tuition:
$345/week for full day sessions
or
$225/week for 1/2 day sessions

Camp days will include:

  • Gathering and connection games as campers arrive and we get to know each other

  • An excursion to the Arroyo to look for critters, learn native plant names and gather building supplies (salvageable, safe debris)

  • Cleaning up our river treasures and working together to transform them into art

  • Learning how to connect things together using minimal tools and biodegradable resources like rattan fibers

  • Working in small groups to draw and write about what we sense and learn along the river

  • Creating word banks to draw from for individual poetry books

  • Drawing our discoveries as a way of close observation - then using these as part of our poetry books

  • Book-making and assembly

  • Movement and collective games

  • Clean-up and settling/ reflecting on our daily discoveries

We will rotate activities so that Morning and Afternoon campers will have a chance to work on both poetry book making and sculpture making.

Both Morning and Afternoon sessions will have Snack Time! -- pack a water bottle and snacks for your camper

For full-day campers, pack a lunch and don’t forget their water bottle!

Everyone is invited to the Ribbon Cutting on August 5th!

QUESTIONS? Please contact Carolina@LARiverPublicArtProject.org

 

Success with our Public Art Camp is witnessing the youth creating poetry books, engaging in creative play, and repurposing debris (treasures!) from the River to collaborate on a monumental sculpture held together with non-toxic materials (lashing with rattan, no plastics, etc.) and employing traditional Tongva weaving/ lashing techniques while considering ways to build-in habitats for our animal and plant relatives. 

Success is co-creating regenerative art responding to the prompt: What does it look like to make art that helps Nature?

MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION:

In sessions shaped by Indigenous Cultural Practioners and led by teaching artists, youth will learn that social and ecological justice go hand-in-hand, how we are all connected, that Los Angeles has been called Tovangaar for thousands of years by its First Peoples, how the river came to be channelized, and that public art can be transformative.

Our curriculum activates youth voices, narratives and perspectives as they write their own poems using river-related word banks and make their own books with our teaching artist, the poet, A.K. Toney.

Having formed images in their minds, they then embody these narratives in games foregrounding our interconnectedness; moving and improvising with our teaching artist, Marc Herbst, through the riverside landscape, discovering its animal residents whom we hope to welcome back to the River by being better stewards.

Cultivating transferable skills in place making grounded in site and community-based considerations encourages youth to site their work carefully by tracing solar paths, feeling the wind, learning to read where water flows over the land when it rains and establishing the cardinal points at the site as they work together to build a monumental work of art -- repurposing debris the river left behind.


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Location:

Art in the Park at Hermon Park
5568 Via Marisol Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA, 90042
United States
Contact name: 
Carolina Xique
The event has already taken place on this date: 
08/05/2023
Time: 
10:00AM