Reframe: Sites of Memory Tour
Saturday, February 11, 2023
10 am-1 pm
Locations: Kuruvungna Springs, Santa Monica City Hall, and then walk to Historic Belmar Park
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This multi-site tour will explore significant places in Santa Monica history and how we currently remember in public space. We will begin at Kuruvungna Village Springs, a sacred site and cultural center for local Indigenous communities. We will then visit the Historic Santa Monica City Hall to discuss the Stanton Macdonald-Wright mural in the lobby. We will end at Historic Belmar Park, to see an example of a recent public art and civic memory project. Attendees should be prepared for weather and uneven ground. If you need help with transportation between Kuruvungna and City Hall, please let us know.
This activity is part of the Reframe: City Hall Mural project event series organized by Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to support, advocate for and organize to highlight Native and Indigenous Artists and systems-impacted peoples. Meztli Projects’ facilitation team is Joel Garcia, Robin Garcia Ph.D., Susannah Laramee Kidd Ph.D., and Rosten Woo.
As part of its Acknowledge and Reframe Together (Reframe) initiative, the City of Santa Monica has embarked on a public process to consider the meaning, impact and potential responses to the WPA-era mural by Stanton Macdonald-Wright in the lobby of historic City Hall. The Reframe: City Hall Mural project offers a series of civic memory conversations and activities to connect Santa Monicans’ diverse histories and contemporary experiences. This process explores representation in public art and how community stories are told so that we can develop creative ideas for future events, public art, and policy updates. Each event will offer a different way to engage with the process of considering the mural. The whole arc of learning events will provide community members with the tools to help amend and celebrate Santa Monica history and take part in Reframe! More information on the City Hall Mural project here.