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If, like @lauramfried, you’re someone who engages with food as a medium for education just as much as convening, chances are your camera roll is also filled with wholesome adventures and community outreach.

Catch Laura live with @activeculturesla - alongside other brilliant minds at their first ever FOOD: A Convening, a new pillar of their artistic program. A multi-day gathering, celebration and platform for art and food. by @lauramfried

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oeuf taken in Marian Goodman Gallery by @lauramfried

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Active Cultures is a public arts nonprofit in Los Angeles that explores the intersection of art, food, and ecologies through artist-led projects and programs. Food is the essential lens through which we examine fundamental questions of power, cultural expression, history, equity, and climate futures, connecting us in ways both intimate and collective.

This September, for the first time, we bring together artists, cooks, farmers, writers, and organizers to engage with the politics of food.

The Convening gathers practitioners who work with food as both material and subject, asking how social practice can make these politics visible, and how cultural and ecological networks can become systems of support when infrastructures fail.

Across two days of performance, presentations, discussion, and shared meals in LA, we examine food as medium, system, archive, and territory.

FOOD: A Convening is open to all. September 25 & 26, 2026. Save the date!

To be the first to receive full program details, sign up for our newsletter at the link in bio.

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FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons. taken in Los Angeles, California by @lauramfried

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closing a chapter
by filling its end with so much sugar
and pulling flesh from crustaceans with fingertips
in excellent company
giving hope for a new year taken in Sea Ranch, California by @lauramfried

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Eva Aguila: Vino de Sangre
Thank you Eva for bringing this meaningful work to us, and sharing your research rooted in the 500 year history of the Mission grape, illuminating these roots, both in light and dark.

Active Cultures Artist Lunch
@vpam_arts
@evaguila
@correasmariscos
@activeculturesla taken in East LA by @lauramfried

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Artist Lunch with Active Cultures. @paigeemery_ was so gracious to host the first in this new series for our member community. Thank you Paige and @spoonandporkla for a beautiful Saturday morning in HiFi. by @lauramfried

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Mexico City, February 2025

Late to this and not for lack of holding tight to these precious days in CDMX, a salve, a balm. Seeing some of these friends in mere days.

@colectivo_amasijo @myceliumasmethodology

pictured @kurimanzutto @cocina_colaboratorio @tianquiz_tli_al_atardecer @zoepinecones @saqibkeval @normalistman @paolasantoscoy @lago_algo @masalaymaiz @kankankim @gonzorita @_pedro_reyes_ @galeriamascota plus taken in Mexico City, Mexico by @lauramfried

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Join us on the rooftop of ArtCenter’s South Campus for a gathering with colectivo amasijo, to connect with the cycles of the Milpa, the three sisters, and the equinox. Through this action, the Mexico City-based collective seeks to recreate moments when land was common, and paths to biodiversity were cultivated for the milpa to flourish.

colectivo amasijo guides us through an intimate performance, where we will touch, gather, and bind ingredients foraged from the Milpa and the hills of Pasadena. The performance will culminate in an offering of endemic foods harvested by the artists during their agricultural journey in the Yucatán and La Milpa, La Escuela (the site of their field work), as well as a meal by Fatima Juarez of Komal here in Los Angeles.

AC is pleased to present this keynote performance in conjunction with the The Brick’s Live on Earth! a Planetary Symposium.

Link in bio to RSVP!

Images:
Corn tamales workshop by Doña Mercedes, Felipe Luna, rainy season 2024, Milpa Alta, Mexico.
The work cycle of the milpa, la milpa, la escuela.
Separation of corn husks for tamales, Felipe Luna, end of the rainy season 2024, Milpa Alta, Mexico.
All courtesy of colectivo amasijo. taken in Pasadena Art Center (South Campus) by @lauramfried

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with groundhog day and an unrelenting month of horror in the rearview, emerging from a social media hiatus to say my heart is full knowing how many friends we'll be seeing in Mexico City this week.

if you happen to be here, please join @activeculturesla and @lago_algo, our friends @normalistman @saqibkeval @paolasantoscoy for a talk and sweet gathering.

we at AC are ever tethered to our community here in CDMX, which began in earnest with our founding dinner at the original @masalaymaiz in a project by @gkstudio and @nikinakayama (hands of the brilliant @carlafernandezmx captured by @analorenzana pictured).

we'll see you back home soon for our spring programs with @colectivo_amasijo @myceliumasmethodology (with whom we'll be seeding and plotting this week too)

Lx by @lauramfried

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Jumana Manna, The Foragers, 2022

Thank you Jumana and Meech Boakye for watering: a foraged gathering and reflection on land and food sovereignty, mourning, and the honoring of martyrs through libation. Thank you friends at the Brick for this beautiful partnership with Active Cultures: ECOTONES, with more to come this fall. taken in The Brick by @lauramfried

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The Year of Barbara
Barbara T Smith @theicala
@purtillfamilybusiness @absroka @asukahisa taken in ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) by @lauramfried

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mood til fall taken in Sea Ranch, California by @lauramfried

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