earth dwell/ers school is an ongoing series of site-based performance lectures and postcard snail mailings that dwell onearth sites and the earthlings that inhabit them. each school session takes place at a different outdoor earthly location: oceans, gardens, mountains, wetlands, etc., and invites people to expand and re-evaluate their ways of being outside, their ecological thinking, and their interspecies cohabitation.

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earth dwell/ers school presented a learning session at the sepulveda basin with performance  lectures by cassandra marketos and ruben  olguin, learning aids by jen de los reyes and plot 田 (alice yuan zhang), and ecopoetic  snacks by liz goetz.  this session offered attendees the space  and time to contemplate fauna, flora, aqua, and geology  , and the political, historical, and social issues that are intertwined with them.

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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.