Chicken Corner just picked up news of the following events, at the Cornfield, as Not a Cornfield is known in the neighborhood. The link to Echo Park? Beside the fact that the press release was sent to me by an Echo Park resident, the Cornfield can be seen from Elysian Park, near the eastern entrance. Not much time to tie that bathrobe belt and run out the door, but if you're reading this Wednesday night you may be able to make the 5:45 a.m. commencement of four days of events.
The general public is invited to join in honoring the Tongva ancestors at Cornhenge, the Metabolic sculpture, in the area previously know as Not A Cornfield. The indigenous community of Los Angeles honors its ancestors through this sunrise ceremony 5:45 a.m. Please join us. Bring your songs, your drums, your dances and your heart. We will go in procession from Cornhenge to the Under Spring area, where a public Ofrenda will be accessible for the community to place their flowers, candles, photos, or any other remembrance in the name of their loved ones.
This sunrise ceremony will commence the on-going activities at Under Spring for the next four days.
According to Jeremy, there also will be:
friday night c. 10pm -- deejay from mooon tribe collectivesaturday night c. 9:00pm -- live music from very be
careful - unannounced gig...
Today's Chicken Corner correspondence also included a link to Mondo Rick-o (which linked to Chicken Corner -- agh! A house of mirrors) which posts many photos by the guerrilla muralist Cache. They include before and later pics of the mural near Echo Park Lake and some captions.
The photo above was taken on Academy, where it bisects Morton Terrace. It looks somewhat like the photo on the above-mentioned Tongva event, and I like the image very much, so here it is.
Photo: Morton Ave, October 2006
By Angela Wood
