Never Stop Planting – Social Forest Community Celebration
Overview
Join us for an outdoor celebration as we kick off the first day of planting for The Broad’s reforestation project, Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar, at Elysian Park. Enjoy a day filled with nature-based workshops and engaging activities designed and led by Indigenous Tongva artists and educators, and local environmental groups. Attendees will experience Tongva concepts and language, with opportunities to learn about native plants and acorn processing, play games, participate in nature walks, and plant native oak trees.
Inspired by Beuys’s influential 1982 work 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) in Kassel, Germany, Social Forest centers the unique cultural, historical, and environmental context of Los Angeles. With themes of environmental justice and political reconciliation, the project shines light on Tongva perspectives on land and ecology. Shuttles between The Broad and the Elysian Park planting site will be available for the February 8 celebration, and planting and boulder placement will be completed by March 2025.
Photos 1 and 3: Photographs taken in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, 2024. Photos by Elon Schoenholz Photography, courtesy of The Broad; Photo 2: Lazaro Arvizu, Jr., courtesy of the artist
Tickets include same-day access to The Broad. Tickets to this event do not include access to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013), and must be booked separately.
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