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Crenshaw Dairy Mart, abolitionist pod (prototype), 2021. Modular Autonomous Garden. Documentation by Giovanni Solis.

Crenshaw Dairy Mart, abolitionist pod (prototype), 2021. Modular Autonomous Garden. Documentation by Giovanni Solis.

Black Farmer Meetup + Qigong

Wednesday, May 12, 4–⁠6pm PST
At Crenshaw Dairy Mart's abolitionist pod (prototype)
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Come share your grow artistry and meet like-minded Los Angeles county Black farmers, gardeners, growers, and Master Gardeners. Crenshaw Dairy Mart will also have a Qigong session; Qigong is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training.

Seed and plant swap. Bring a chair!

abolitionist pod (prototype) is supported, in part, by Art Rise, a project of WERISE.LA, an initiative of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, with generous support from the Environmental Council of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Participating urban gardeners and farmers include The WOW Flower Project, CSU, Ambiguous Digz, Urban Soul Farmer, Hereticgardener, The plant plug LA, Farm for a future, Sylmar HS - Agriculture Class, and Te’Amir Sweeney.

Art Rise is a series of over fifteen outdoor art installations in and around Downtown Los Angeles, commissioned especially for WE RISE, that encourages wellbeing and healing through art, connection, community engagement, and creative expression. For more information and to see a complete Art Rise map, please visit WERISE.LA.



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