Homemade waffles, fresh squeezed juice, craft and architecture join together for a Sunday morning brunch and crochet workshop. The workshop will focus on re-using plastic grocery bags to crochet a large sunscreen that will cover the M&A courtyard exhibition space. The Workshop is free of charge and includes materials and tools. Bring plastic bags, a fork, a plate, and a cup.
When: Sunday, July 25, 2004 11 a.m. ? 2 p.m.
Where: M&A materials & applications Architecture and Landscape Research 1619 Silverlake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Contact: (323) 913-0915 info@emanate.org http://www.emanate.org
Shade is a joint effort of M&A and the Los Angeles Needle Exchange colliding craft and architecture in an attempt to transform the remnants of post-consumption into useable building materials. Inspired by the lyrical quality of the plastic bag caught on an air current, the accessibility of the source materials, and the organic quality of the crochet stitch we work long hours as a temporary community to create a sunscreen to bring relief from the sun.
M&A is a neighborhood architecture and landscape center with a compulsion to increase urban greenspace and affordable green building techniques while sharing the latest ideas in architectural design and theory.
The Los Angeles Needle Exchange is an open group of radical urban crafters who focus on collective needle based projects that challenge the notion of craft and create large- scale craft based works with political intent and messages. They meet the third Sunday of each month in Highland Park at Flor Y Canto and the second and fourth Wednesday of each month in San Pedro at Walled City Gallery.
For more information go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LosAngelesNeedleExchange/
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