LABC Presents Arlington Garden Pasadena
Wed, Sep 20
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2023, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: For more than 40 years, the site of Arlington Garden was a desolate patch of land in Pasadena, designated as a staging area for the future construction of a 710 Freeway link. After the freeway was halted due to community opposition, the land sat empty until the garden began in 2005. At that point, the site had 12 mature trees but was otherwise bare. Today, it is a flourishing garden designed to demonstrate that low-water use can still yield a beautiful natural expanse in a densely populated urban setting. It's now home to more than 300 trees and thousands of California natives and other plants that are well suited to the region’s Mediterranean climate.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Michelle Matthews is a BIPOC (Chinese, Vietnamese, White, Black) environmentalist, artist, designer, and photographer, with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MFA from the…