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Junk to Funk Fashion Show November 17th

Behind the Label
AYSIA WRIGHT / Tuesday, November 6, 2007 01:21 PM


If you missed it last year, be sure to take it in this year as the creative energy behind this show is amazing! I was fortunate to be a judge at last year's show and the ensembles that strutted down that runway were truly inspired. Check out last year's panel of judges. More...

TAGS: EVENTS, LIVE, eco fashion

Junk to Funk Fashion Show November 17th

Behind the Label
AYSIA WRIGHT / Tuesday, November 6, 2007 01:21 PM


If you missed it last year, be sure to take it in this year as the creative energy behind this show is amazing! I was fortunate to be a judge at last year's show and the ensembles that strutted down that runway were truly inspired. Check out last year's panel of judges. More...

TAGS: EVENTS, LIVE, eco fashion

Ecotrust Lecture Tonight! Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Monday, November 5, 2007 01:37 PM

Come to the Ecotrust building tonight, Monday November 5th from 5:30 to 6:30 for a lecture by an Oregon author!

FREE
Ecotrust Conference Center
721 NW Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor
Portland, OR 97209

From Ecotrust:
Ecotrust's Food & Farms program welcomes Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back, for an evening presentation and slide show discussing her new book.
 
"Kitchen Literacy chronicles a history of our changing awareness – not only of food but of nature itself," says author Ann Vileisis. "While the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing specific stories behind food's origins to relying instead on advertisers' claims and government assurances."
 
Vileisis will take viewers on a sensory-rich journey through the history of preparing dinner, with special attention to what urban and suburban cooks have known, and not known, about their foods as the distance between farm and kitchen grew.
 
The talk will conclude with a discussion of modern shoppers' renewed interest in knowing more about how and where their foods are produced. The revealing presentation features fascinating historic images and promises to make people think differently about what they know about what they eat More...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY

Ecotrust Lecture Tonight! Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Monday, November 5, 2007 01:37 PM

Come to the Ecotrust building tonight, Monday November 5th from 5:30 to 6:30 for a lecture by an Oregon author!

FREE
Ecotrust Conference Center
721 NW Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor
Portland, OR 97209

From Ecotrust:
Ecotrust's Food & Farms program welcomes Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back, for an evening presentation and slide show discussing her new book.
 
"Kitchen Literacy chronicles a history of our changing awareness – not only of food but of nature itself," says author Ann Vileisis. "While the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing specific stories behind food's origins to relying instead on advertisers' claims and government assurances."
 
Vileisis will take viewers on a sensory-rich journey through the history of preparing dinner, with special attention to what urban and suburban cooks have known, and not known, about their foods as the distance between farm and kitchen grew.
 
The talk will conclude with a discussion of modern shoppers' renewed interest in knowing more about how and where their foods are produced. The revealing presentation features fascinating historic images and promises to make people think differently about what they know about what they eat More...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY

Weekend Events: Bamboo Fashion, Bikes, Chestnut Roasts, Felt and Literature

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Friday, November 2, 2007 04:11 PM

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, there's things happening all over town! Meet a local designer, recycle a sweater, go on a bike ride, roast chestnuts...it must be fall in Stumptown! More...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY

Weekend Events: Bamboo Fashion, Bikes, Chestnut Roasts, Felt and Literature

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Friday, November 2, 2007 04:11 PM

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, there's things happening all over town! Meet a local designer, recycle a sweater, go on a bike ride, roast chestnuts...it must be fall in Stumptown! More...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY

Tonight: Artist Fritz Haeg in free lecture on humans and environment

CARISSA WODEHOUSE / Monday, October 29, 2007 04:33 PM

Monday, October 29th, 7:30pm.
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St.
Free and open to the public, all ages

Fritz Haeg is an architect of human homes, animal homes, and gardens. I was introduced to his work this summer at the Tate Modern where his latest Edible Estates project, garden #4, was commissioned for the stunning Global Cities exhibition. In the midst of towering images of crowded slums in Shanghai, Cairo, and Mumbai, the pictures and instructions for a small edible garden were, like the gardens themselves, nearly lost in the hubbub.

Truthfully, it didn’t seem that interesting to me at first, community gardens being common enough to a Portlander. But behind the short wall of garden photos was a table of books on organic gardening and instructions for DIY edible gardens, and lo, the area was jammed with Londoners. It took me a moment to remember that Portland is indeed a bubble, and the rest of the world doesn’t have the greenery we enjoy. So it was Haeg who the Tate selected to bring an edible garden to an overlooked plot of dirt the middle of London.

Of the six commissioned pieces (more on Bus Shelter by Nils Norman in a later post), Haeg’s was the only one that led the viewer out of the Tate and into the city to a small edible community garden. Since London was one of the cities examined on density, diversity, and pollution in the Global Cities exhibition, stepping out of Turbine Hall was already thought provoking. According to the exhibition program, still in rotation in the Celilo office, “Bankside is one of London’s least green areas; the few open spaces it does provide remain heavily polluted by the effect of past industrialization.” Haeg’s garden makes use of a small, sad looking area at the base of apartment buildings, where “mounded beds separate the plants from the contaminated soil.” The exhibition ended in August, so hopefully tonight’s lecture will provide an update on the state of the garden.

The Edible Estates manifesto brings its mission home to this side of the pond, declaring “an attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent.” It continues, “Edible Estates proposes the replacement of the American lawn with a highly productive domestic edible landscape. Food grown in our front yards will connect us to the seasons, the organic cycles of the earth and our neighbors. The banal lifeless space of uniform grass in front of the house will be replaced with the chaotic abundance of bio-diversity.” As an artist and architect of human homes and their surroundings, Haeg’s holistic view of living spaces will be a fresh addition to the Portland green scene.

And, based on his other work, tonight’s lecture will certainly be entertaining. Check out Haeg’s cheeky proposition for a 2012 Olympic ‘extreme summer event’ called Olympic Farming, also presented at the Tate. Beginning, “Every night our London dinner plate becomes the venue for a sort of global Olympic event: representing China: SWEET POTATOES / traveling 5000 food miles; from Egypt: GRAPES / at 2200 miles; Ghana: PINEAPPLES / 3,100 miles…”

Edible Estates will be spreading to US cities, removing lawns across the US for several years. A parallel project called Animal Estates aims to create dwellings to bring back animals displaced by “cities, strip malls, garages, office parks, freeways, front yards, parking lots and neighborhoods.” A prototype appears to be coming to Reed College’s Cooley Gallery in October 2008.

Watch a video on the Edible Estates garden in London here.

Edible estates are in Los Angeles, Salina, Kansas, Austin, and London. Email to info(at)edibleestates.org.

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is sponsored by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. View upcoming lectures on their calendarMore...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY, arts & culture, visual arts

Tonight: Artist Fritz Haeg in free lecture on humans and environment

CARISSA WODEHOUSE / Monday, October 29, 2007 04:33 PM

Monday, October 29th, 7:30pm.
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St.
Free and open to the public, all ages

Fritz Haeg is an architect of human homes, animal homes, and gardens. I was introduced to his work this summer at the Tate Modern where his latest Edible Estates project, garden #4, was commissioned for the stunning Global Cities exhibition. In the midst of towering images of crowded slums in Shanghai, Cairo, and Mumbai, the pictures and instructions for a small edible garden were, like the gardens themselves, nearly lost in the hubbub.

Truthfully, it didn’t seem that interesting to me at first, community gardens being common enough to a Portlander. But behind the short wall of garden photos was a table of books on organic gardening and instructions for DIY edible gardens, and lo, the area was jammed with Londoners. It took me a moment to remember that Portland is indeed a bubble, and the rest of the world doesn’t have the greenery we enjoy. So it was Haeg who the Tate selected to bring an edible garden to an overlooked plot of dirt the middle of London.

Of the six commissioned pieces (more on Bus Shelter by Nils Norman in a later post), Haeg’s was the only one that led the viewer out of the Tate and into the city to a small edible community garden. Since London was one of the cities examined on density, diversity, and pollution in the Global Cities exhibition, stepping out of Turbine Hall was already thought provoking. According to the exhibition program, still in rotation in the Celilo office, “Bankside is one of London’s least green areas; the few open spaces it does provide remain heavily polluted by the effect of past industrialization.” Haeg’s garden makes use of a small, sad looking area at the base of apartment buildings, where “mounded beds separate the plants from the contaminated soil.” The exhibition ended in August, so hopefully tonight’s lecture will provide an update on the state of the garden.

The Edible Estates manifesto brings its mission home to this side of the pond, declaring “an attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent.” It continues, “Edible Estates proposes the replacement of the American lawn with a highly productive domestic edible landscape. Food grown in our front yards will connect us to the seasons, the organic cycles of the earth and our neighbors. The banal lifeless space of uniform grass in front of the house will be replaced with the chaotic abundance of bio-diversity.” As an artist and architect of human homes and their surroundings, Haeg’s holistic view of living spaces will be a fresh addition to the Portland green scene.

And, based on his other work, tonight’s lecture will certainly be entertaining. Check out Haeg’s cheeky proposition for a 2012 Olympic ‘extreme summer event’ called Olympic Farming, also presented at the Tate. Beginning, “Every night our London dinner plate becomes the venue for a sort of global Olympic event: representing China: SWEET POTATOES / traveling 5000 food miles; from Egypt: GRAPES / at 2200 miles; Ghana: PINEAPPLES / 3,100 miles…”

Edible Estates will be spreading to US cities, removing lawns across the US for several years. A parallel project called Animal Estates aims to create dwellings to bring back animals displaced by “cities, strip malls, garages, office parks, freeways, front yards, parking lots and neighborhoods.” A prototype appears to be coming to Reed College’s Cooley Gallery in October 2008.

Watch a video on the Edible Estates garden in London here.

Edible estates are in Los Angeles, Salina, Kansas, Austin, and London. Email to info(at)edibleestates.org.

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is sponsored by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. View upcoming lectures on their calendarMore...

TAGS: EVENTS, PLAY, arts & culture, visual arts

Tonight: Friends of Trees Helps You Dress Up Your Sidewalk for $75

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Monday, October 29, 2007 04:12 PM

Friends of Trees hosts a slideshow to help you pick the right tree for your sidewalk planting area--that much neglected patch of planting area that can make a neighborhood greener. If you haven't been to their website yet, pop over to view their listings of local trees complete with a tool that takes into account the width of your planting space and whether power lines are present to give you selections for the appropriate tree. More...

TAGS: EVENTS, HOME, gardening

Tonight: Friends of Trees Helps You Dress Up Your Sidewalk for $75

ECOMETRO EDITORS / Monday, October 29, 2007 04:12 PM

Friends of Trees hosts a slideshow to help you pick the right tree for your sidewalk planting area--that much neglected patch of planting area that can make a neighborhood greener. If you haven't been to their website yet, pop over to view their listings of local trees complete with a tool that takes into account the width of your planting space and whether power lines are present to give you selections for the appropriate tree. More...

TAGS: EVENTS, HOME, gardening
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