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Title: Bicycle Tour of Edible Gardens
Location: Departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: June 28
End Time: 3pm
Description: Where can Rochestarians find good food, community fun, great smells, and exercise all rolled up in one urban experience? Edible inner-city gardens of course! Join avid amateur gardeners, Colleen Buzzard and Hucky Land, for a bicycle tour of some of Rochester’s community garden treats. $1 / free for members Departs from RoCo, Sunday, June 28 @ 1pm.

Title: UrbaCulture: Rochester Food Sovereignty
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: April 19
End Time: 2:30pm
Description: Join Chris Hartman, co-founder and co-manager of the South Wedge Farmers Market and the Westside Farmers Market, founder and president of The Good Food Collective, and active urban agriculture organizer will discuss food systems development and the social and economic capital of GOOD FOOD!  Participants will also learn to make a self-watering container garden great for urban spaces-boot strapped, low budget, and easy to build!  Everyone takes one home!

Fallen Fruit Tree Adoption at Machine Project Gallery in L.A.

Janet Owen Driggs

Sunday Coffee Hour in the PLANT reading room

Title: Agri(c)ulture: What’s Growing in LA?
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Date: March 22
Start Time: 1pm
End Time: 2pm
Description:
Los Angeles is frequently billed as a place where culture grows small in the shadow of a flourishing entertainment industry. However, with its increasing focus on cultivating sustainable civic, social and public spaces through the action of growing food, L.A. culture is not just burgeoning, but positively flowering.
L.A.-based writer artist and curator Janet Owen Driggs will present projects that are growing (or have recently grown) in L.A, including Not A Cornfield, Farmlab Fallen Fruit, Islands of LA and Edible Estates

Janet Owen Driggs’ recent publications include texts for ArtUS, RiM magazine, the Hammer Museum, Art Review, and the anthology Kolibri. Most recently she has edited History, Site, Document, a book about Not A Cornfield, an art project that took place in Downtown Los Angeles, 2005-6.

Owen Driggs has curated and organized events with, among other institutions, MOCA, Los Angeles; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Hong Kong Art Center. As an artist she has exhibited most recently in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Mexico City. Before transitioning to collaborative and participatory practice she exhibited for over a decade as an individual artist, with projects appearing in solo and group exhibitions at venues including: Beaux Arts, Delfina Studios, and the Camden Art Center (UK), Shoshanna Wayne and Flowers West (US), Sandberg Institute (Netherlands), Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (Brazil), and ArtPool (Sweden).

Owen Driggs is currently a member of Adjunct Faculty at the USC School of Fine Arts and Studio Writer at Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation.

Title: Green Map meeting
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2008-10-10
End Time: 12:00

Description: Urban Planning students in Adam Sokol’s class at The University of Buffalo have been working with RoCo and GEH toward the creation of a Green Map of Rochester. Using the established tools and practices of GreenMap.org the finished Green Map of Rochester will hopefully become a useful resource for Rochester’s community and a tool for comparative study between Rochester and other cities and regions around the world.
The evolving Green Map of Rochester: http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/user/837

Title: PARK(ing) Day

Date: 2008-09-19
Start Time: 08:00am
End Time: 10:00pm
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Ave), George Eastman House (900 East Ave), City Hall (Fitzhugh St.) Art Walk (University Ave) and elsewhere.

Description: PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks. National Park(ing) Day is a fun way to advocate for green space in cities by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces. National Park(ing) Day was Friday, September 19, 2008.

PARK(ing) Day Links:
www.parkingday.org/
http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/
parkingdayla.com/
The Trust for Public Land - PARK(ing) Day
www.rochestercontemporary.org/parkingday.html