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.