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the sepulveda basin portion of the los angeles river is one of two segments where the river has a natural, earth-bottomed channel, fostering a riparian habitat that provides food, cover, and shelter for a variety of birds, including millions of birds traveling between breeding grounds. 

cassandra marketos works at the intersection of compost and community. her projects focus on decomposition as a generative process—one that sustains soil, shapes landscapes, and binds people into shared systems of care. she creates public-facing compost projects, workshops, and talks that make decay visible and meaningful. 

ruben olguin is a new mexico based artist working in ceramics, adobe, sound, video, and electronic media. his work draws from his mixed indigenous american and spanish (mestizo) heritage. themes in his recent work explore how the landscape is divided by technology, land acquisition and modern transportation paths. exposing these lines in the work, he considers how these divisions occurred and their effects on identity politics. tracing paths of discontinuity through the history, culture and landscape of the american southwest.

jen de los reyes is an artist, educator, writer, community arts organizer, and friend to all birds. with roots in the riot grrrl and d.i.y. music scene, her practice incorporates pedagogical, ecological, and organizational methodologies. she divides her time between chicago, where she founded garbage hill farm, and ithaca, ny where she collaborates with artist oscar rene cornejo on land.

plot 田 is an interdisciplinary project room and store in chinatown los angeles, run by artist alice yuan zhang.

liz goetz is a community organizer, educator and artist working to develop and implement sustainable community-based arts and cultural programs. since 2018 she has been the director of Art in the park community cultural programs and since 2014 she is part of semillas viajeras (seed travels), an ongoing community knowledge exchange among farmers in rabinal, guatemala, and california, arizona and new mexico. as an artist, she is devoted to collective organization and knowledge sharing.

to reserve a ticket visit: eventbrite.com/e/earth-dwellers-school-tickets-1978710212511

attire and equipment recommendations: wear comfy shoes, clothes, and a sun hat that you don’t mind getting dirty. bring water, binoculars, bug spray, sunblock, and a notebook and pencil.

important information:  we will sit on concrete benches and dirt, concrete, and  grassy grounds – we will walk throughout the park for an estimate of 80 non-continuous minutes in total – basin park terrain is mildly uneven, has soil, gravel, and some small steps throughout. limited water and binoculars will be available – bringing your own is encouraged.

bees are present in the area.

parking is available in the woodley ave park parking lot and on woodley ave. please arrive 15 mins prior to park. the event will start promptly and move throughout various locations in the park.

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earth dwell/ers school presented a learning session in the garden at velaslavasay panorama with performance lectures by wes larios, dani vonlehe of terremoto, and sara velas of the velaslavasay panorama. this session offered attendees the space and time to contemplate flora, the environmental issues flora face, and their function as hosts/conduits of ecological and social communities. presenters emphasized storytelling and poetic gestures to present scientific, historical, and environmental information on gardens, soil, plants, and foliage dwellers –and attendees partook in self-guided observational learning of soil, lemons, insects, flowers, and other garden surprises.

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earth dwell/ers school’s first session took place on the ocean (in a boat), and offered attendees space and time to contemplate the ocean, and its whales & tuna fish. while emphasizing storytelling , poetry and song, trisha federis remetir and gloria galvez presented performance lectures that examined how extraction industries and sound pollution impact the ocean, whales, & fish — and how poetics and kinship can soften and dissolve their effects . furthermore, attendees partook in self-guided observational learning of the ocean, dolphins, sea lions, fish, and shore-birds.