On Sunday, February 21, we are lucky to have Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson visiting us from Paris to screen their 2009 film, Facs of Life. The screening will begin at 7pm, but we invite you to come earlier for a conversation with Silvia and Graeme.
This is a simple and straight forward class on readings on architecture.
The class was originally proposed in THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NYC and scheduled bi-weekly starting on February 28th.
Please refer to this link.
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/1955
This could go various ways. We could read the same text and participate discussion over skype. Or we can run completely different readings and discussions. Perhaps, we should have some kind of exchange (between LA and NYC) once in a while.
Proposed readings so far are...
"Learning from Las Vegas" by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour
"The Death & Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs
"Towards an Architecture" by Le Corbusier and Spaces Speak
"ARE YOU LISTENING?" by Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter
Just a friendly reminder that "Ambivalence" starts tomorrow, at 3 PM, at either the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery or The Public School! Please join us! All relevant information available here: http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1765.
Do you like beer? Do you like aggressively hopped, intense beer that challenges the taste buds? Does the word "experimental", in description of beer, entice you instead of scaring you away? Do you find all mass-produced Finnish beer to be sadly lacking in taste? Well, make your own!
We will learn how to make beer at home, but explore techniques not commonly used by other homebrewers: stealing yeast from commercial beer, throwing weird ingredients in, and overloading any/all elements of beer.
The class participants would split the cost of materials and make some insane ales, which would then be bottled after a few weeks and split evenly among the participants. While we wait for the wort to boil, we will drink some of our favorite beers. As a "textbook", we can refer to Sam Calagione's Extreme Brewing.
This group will rediscover our city’s rich food system while learning how to rebuild and maintain it for future generations. Schedule TBD by the group.
Related information:
“Wildman” Steve Brill http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
Ava Chin http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/urban-forager-to-a-wild-rose-hip/
forageSF http://foragesf.com/
Nonstophome will be in residence for the next week (beginning tonight at 7pm!) with their four-day listening, reading, and discussion-based seminar, The Last of my Time Makes a Cosmos: Rhythm and Space Analysis toward the de-gentrification of the Black Avant Garde. The class description is below, but a practical note: if you can't make it to the first meeting, feel free to come to the second class, on Thursday.
Schedule:
- Tuesday, 2 February at 7pm
- Thursday, 4 February at 7pm
- Sunday, 7 February at 7pm
- Tuesday, 9 February at 7pm
How to wield a blade in the kitchen, at the BBQ(!), or offshore international waters. Focus on proper chef knife technique. Practice form and cutting styles. Best practices for specific items: onions, avocados, mangos and so on and so forth. Knife maintenance and sharpening.
The tenth Fucked Up Drawing Party will happen at The Public School on Saturday from 5-8pm.
MANIFESTO:
The purpose of a Fucked Up Drawing Party is to get fucked up (i.e. intoxicated) and draw things that are fucked up (i.e. disturbing). What constitutes a Fucked Up Drawing is different for everyone. Some people discover the Fucked Up in aberrant sexuality or perverse violence, for others it may be politically charged. Styles range from abstract mark making to soft-core realism- being eccentrically overt or delicately subtle. The ultimate test is that when you look at a drawing, you think to yourself, "that's fucked up."
Phase 1- We'll all contribute, discuss literature from the period between ww1 and ww2 in which the socialist party of america was targetted by the Wilson Administration using his sedition act to jail it's leaders and finacial backers to lengthy prisons sentences and the following creation of American social sciences and introduction to higher education by John D Rockefeller Junior through the philanthropic institutions of Rockefeller Philanthropies, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, Social Science Research Center and the Problems and Planning committee (among others).
Phase 2- We'll dig up the texts to arrive at an understanding of american socialism at the time of it's eradication and we will restart the evolution of the philosophy from where it left off, publish our findings so that large scale participation can be acheived in the ideological advancement of socialism