earth dwell/er's school - garden session

earth dwell/ers

✿✿✿✿garden✿session✿✿✿✿

Sunday, May 25th, 2025

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Free event with RSVP

earth dwell/er’s school presents a learning session in the garden at velaslavasay panorama with performance lectures by wes larios, dani vonlehe of terremoto and sara velas of the velaslavasay panorama. this session will offer attendees the space and time to contemplate flora, the environmental issues they face, and their function as hosts/conduits of ecological and social communities. presenters will emphasize storytelling and poetic gestures to present scientific, historical, and environmental information on gardens, soil, plants, and foliage dwellers. furthermore, attendees will partake in self-guided observational learning of soil, pomelos, insects, flowers, and other garden surprises.

earth dwell/ers school is an ongoing series of site-based performance lectures and postcard snail mailings that invite people to re-evaluate their ways of being outside,  participate in ecological thinking, and contemplate their interspecies cohabitation.

danielle (dani) vonlehe is a landscape designer at terremoto in los angeles. she received her mla at university of southern california where she was the 2020 laf olmsted scholar, ma in aesthetics in politics from calarts, bfa in photomedia at university of washington, and ba in english at university of washington. dani’s interdisciplinary work in photography, writing, and garden-making explores the affective connection between space and experience.

terremoto is a landscape architecture design studio with offices in los angeles and san francisco, california. terremoto creates well built, site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while simultaneously challenging historical + contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions. it is our goal to build gardens not for this civilization, but rather, the next; and to destroy the system with love and kindness.

wes larios is an artist and teacher. he studied at the san francisco art institute, then moved to new haven, connecticut for graduate studies. after receiving his mfa in 2017, he moved to new york city and participated in the whitney independent study program. he is now a lecturer at ucla and uc riverside. he works slowly on essays, films, drawings, books and photographs from his depression-era shed in east la.

sara velas is an artist, curator, graphic designer, gardener and native los angeleno. she established the velaslavasay panorama in the year 2000 on hollywood boulevard and continues to explore tropes of cinema and visual storytelling through this institution in collaboration with a wide range of artists, designers, movie makers, cultural practitioners and more. an avid architectural preservationist, she sits on the heritage committee of the international panorama council and is a member of the los angeles breakfast club. she has been obsessed with unusual plants and fungi since she was three years old, giving garden tours at her parent’s house in woodland hills.