This Week @ FarmlabSeptember 27-October 3, 2007

Farmlab Public Salons

Friday, September 28, 2007 @ Noon
Food Access in South and Central Los Angeles: Mapping Injustice, Agenda for Action
Join Andrea Azuma and Elizabeth Medrano as they discuss the obesity epidemic in the United States and the quest to find healthy and affordable foods in every neighborhood of Los Angeles ......
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Friday, October 5, 2007 @ Noon
Wasted
Join Cara Baldwin for "a belligerent celebration of the ways artists and activists endlessly consume and reclaim ourselves, one another and our environment." .....
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News + Projects

Ag Bins on Skid Row Participant Profiled in L.A. Daily News
Sunday, September 23, 2007 Edition Highlights "Elvis"
Roland Burris, a leading participant in Farmlab's Ag Bins on Skid Row project, was the subject of a profile in the Los Angeles Daily News by reporter Tony Castro .....
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Piece Commissioned by Farmlab; Depicts Iconic Walnut Trees
On Alameda Ave. #1 (SCF) A Painting by Lucas Reiner, Now Being Exhibited
Lucas Reiner's oil-on-canvas painting, On Alameda Ave. #1 (SCF), part of the group show, Portraits, now on exhibition in Los Angeles at the Carl Berg Gallery, depicts the California black walnut trees that graced the site of the former South Central Farm ......
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Under Spring

Saturday, September 29 & October 13, 2007 @ 10am-12noon
Tongva Cultural Workshops
Farmlab will be offering a series of workshops to honor November as Native American Heritage month. These workshops will be led by the descendants of the Tongva people, of the Los Angeles .....
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