For this week's workshop, we will meet between 10 and 1pm at White Point Beach in San Pedro, CA: 1799 W Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90732, USA. Feel free to come for all or part of this time. 

White Point Beach is one of the sites where the Bird Rescue releases recovered birds. It is also home to large stretch of living tide pools with exposed geological strata, landslide mud, and rich rock and mineral diversity. White Point also has a visible/palpable history of ecological, colonial, extractive, and military disturbance, including the annihilation of abalone populations by colonial settlers over a 8 year period in the early 1900s and the eradication and disappearance of first indigenous and then Japanese culture from this site in the 1800s and 1940s. More on the park, including a somewhat sanitized history of the place here:  https://beaches.lacounty.gov/white-point-royal-palms-beach/

There is paid parking at the water level. I will set up near the tide pools on the southern end of the park. (You could also park for free at the top of the cliff and walk down - then turn left when you reach the water.) I will be at the end of the parking lot beside the tide pools.

We will find some time near the beginning to listen deeply to this place and resonate its frequencies with each other, performing Pauline Oliveros' Environmental Dialogue Then, if we have enough folks, we will expose the cyanotyped textile with our bodies and gathered materials from the site and the Bird Rescue. 

We will use the clay to make site-specific bowls that can hold water for the upcoming performance.

For this session, we will open up our kelp-dyed fabrics and coating them in cyanotype chemistry. Then, we’ll be back at Cabrillo Beach, 3800 Stephen M White Dr, San Pedro, CA 90731 with the plan to expose at least some of these cyanotype-on-kelp-dyed textiles and hang out with friends and family (including you, if you are free). I'll bring the cyanotyped textiles in a light-safe bag and either my seafood pot to cook for everyone, including all the mothers of all kinds who can join us. Do RSVP (just reply to this email is fine) and let me know if you can be there and if you have any dietary restrictions. I will also steep a little bit of wild kelp for us to eat along with the rest of the food. Feel free to bring kids and/or whatever you need to get into the water and attune with the sea itself.

(1) Location: We will meet at 2pm Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse, 3800 Stephen M White Dr, San Pedro, CA 90731. (See attached map of Cabrillo Beach, showing bath house and adjacent parking.) If you arrive after 2:10, look for us on the beach just to the right of the bathhouse. Or, feel free to call or text me to connect: 215.490.3064. 

(2) Parking: Parking is metered and costs $1 per hour. There is usually an attendant at the entrance who will take your card, ask you how many hours you are staying, and run it for you. You can park right in front of the bathhouse, or if those spots are full, there will be plenty in front of the aquarium, a short distance away.) 

(3) Weather: We will be meeting outside beside the Pacific Ocean. The weather should be incredibly beautiful tomorrow (sunny with a high of 67 degrees), but do come prepared for the elements. I recommend a sun hat, sun glasses, sunscreen, water, and comfortable walking shoes. There are picnic tables where we can sit, but also feel free to bring a blanket or towel for seating. 

(4) Agenda: Kelp dying/printing, environmental dialogue scores, and movement 

When you arrive, the kelp dye pot should already be cooking (feel free to come out a little early, if you'd like to participate in gathering the kelp for the pot. I'm planning to get there around 1pm.)

We will begin our 2pm session with a sequence of Pauline Oliveros' environmental dialogue scores. (See below score agenda).

Then, we will revisit our movement score in progress from last week and artist Claudia Henandez Romero will share an ecologically-attuned afro-cuban dance practice with us. (Thank you, Claudia!)

We will close out our session gathering site-specific materials (seaweed, rust, shells, rope, palm fronds, leaves, rocks, etc), which we will sound together in a short material-driven improvisation. Then, we will bind these materials up in provided textiles and dropping them into the dye pot. (I'm bringing a propane-fueled burner, some string, a big dyepot, and (10) 5 x 6', pre-mordanted cotton textiles for us to use on site). We will have the option to apply cyanotype as an additional layer over these kelp-dyed textiles next week. 

Attuning with sick and injured marine birds - Direct Observation of emaciated pelicans and orphaned ducklings, followed by movement workshop and experimental material score with cyanotype as graphic scores and deep listening walk through Fort MacArthur

Come learn about humanity’s impact on marine life, including the Bird Rescue’s patients. Review x-rays showing plastic entanglement, ingested fishing hooks, imbedded bbs. Then, create your own light-exposed cyanotype images, using similar materials gathered from Cabrillo Beach and the Bird Rescue.

Meets at International Bird Rescue, Classroom 2.

Come learn about the relationship between native plants, healthy soil, and healthy marine birds. Then, mix up your own plant-able seed bomb sculptures using local clay, soil, sand, beneficial fungi, kelp, and wildflower seeds. Help improve watershed health and increase awareness about the impact of coastal soil management on marine ecosystems with your living sculptures. All materials and tools will be provided, including a variety of press molds and stamps to help participants shape and mark their plant-able sculptures.