Dear Fruit Friends,

After an incredible 323 days, featuring over 50 artists and more than 150 works of art, the LA 2050 Arts:REstore LA & Hammer Museum installment of Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique! is coming to a close.

We would like to thank Allison Agsten, Gloria Gerace, Sarah Stiffler and the entire Hammer Museum for the opportunity and on-going support.  Also Steve Sans, UCLA Student Association Westwood Village, Topa Property Mgmt, and everyone who helped make our first Fruitique! a success.

Please come by on Friday, September 19th or Saturday, September 20th from 11-7pm, and have a fresh squeezed mimosa to toast our final days in Westwood, before we move on. All items will be discounted 25%.

Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique! is an on-going, collaborative, art installation that combines hand-picked vintage items with contemporary fine art and every-day objects that use fruit as a theme.  Keep your eyes peeled for another installment in a new city soon!

With Love and Fruit,

David and Austin and The Fallen Fruit Team

Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique  (online here)
10920 Kinross Avenue @ Gayley in Westwood Village
Los Angeles, CA 90029
*parking is $3 at the Hammer Museum around the corner.

September 14, 2014 at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area!
12-3pm
Come make jam with us!
and Learn about the Park To Playa and Public Fruit orchard.
Find us near the upper parking lot.
RSVP for free parking :
4100 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90056
#parktoplaya

Lemonade Stand!
Sunday August 24th at Kenneth Hahn Recreation Park!
10am – 2pm
Lemonade Stand by Fallen Fruit : In exchange for drawing your self portrait on a lemon, we will give you a cold glass of lemonade. Join us!

4100 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90056
#parktoplaya

TIME:
6.30–7.30pm (1:30 AM PST)
WHEN:
Thursday 17 July
WHERE:
Cinema A, GOMA
ENTRY:
Free, no bookings required
Food can express our identities and cultivate communities, but how does it really shape who we are?

Join ABC Radio National’s Weekend Arts host Sarah Kanowski and guests as they discuss how food has played a vital role in shaping cultural identities.

Held in conjunction with ‘Harvest: Art, Film + Food’ at GOMA until 21 September.

Missed a past GOMA Talks session?
Catch up online on QAGOMA TV.

HAVE A QUESTION?
ASK THE PANEL #GOMATalks

HEAR FROM
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
LA-Based artist collective and exhibiting ‘Harvest’ artists
Joining the session live via Skype
Dr Diane Kirkby
Reader in History, La Trobe University
Joanna Savill
Editor, Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide
Paul West
Chef and host of River Cottage Australia

take a tour of Pineapple Express! at QAGOMA HERE.

We are making our first URBAN FRUIT TRAIL in collaboration with Heart of Los Angeles.

Join Fallen Fruit ( David Burnsand Austin Young) and Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) at Levitt Pavilion, from 4:00-6:30pm.

We will make fruit inspired art with Fallen Fruit and celebrate the Urban Fruit Trails’ newly planted fruit trees in MacArthur Park!

Guest Artists:
dublab
The Killsisters
Fancy Boyz
HOLA Musicians
Chef Marco Zapien

Bring a picnic blanket and stay for the Levitt Youth Talent night starting at 6:30pm.

This event is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Council Member Gil Cedillo, Lakers Youth Foundation, Active Alliance and Melissa’s.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

read about our residency on the HOLA blog HERE

Join us!
at Rueben Ingold Park!

Join members of Los Angeles-based art collaborative Fallen Fruit for Lemonade Stand in Rueben Ingold Park. In exchange for a cold glass of lemonade, participants will be asked to create self-portraits using black ink markers on lemons and to share stories of sadness and disappointment, or happiness and positive self-reflection. This will be a part of an ongoing site specific project with Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Park to Playa trail, including the upcoming Stockard Public Fruit Orchard.

here are some images from our last Lemonade Stand at Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world

We really need your help! Fallen Fruit has been collaborating with Hearts of Los Angeles (HOLA) in planting 150 trees along an ‘Urban Fruit Trail’ that goes from Lafayette Park to MacArthur Park. We already planted 18 trees in Lafayette Park and We were granted approval by the City of Los Angeles to plant 12 mature citrus trees in McArthur Park in Westlake near Downtown Los Angeles!

We had a setback on monday and all 30 trees we planted so far along Wilshire Blvd and Lafayette park were vandalized. We replanted them (see the ABC7 story here) but we need your help more than ever.

Fallen Fruit would like to name a tree after you (or someone you love).”Sponsor” one or more of 12 citrus trees for MacArthur Park. A beautifully mature citrus (grapefruit, orange, lemon, etc) runs $600 and $800 to purchase and plant. It’s a tax deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor. The name for the fruit tree will exist on the Urban Fruit Trail map and online map.

Use a credit card to make a tax free donation here.)

and Join us for the a celebration in MacArthur Park on Sunday July 20th from 4pm to 6pm!

warmly,

David Burns and Austin Young

LA Times story here

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ABOUT URBAN FRUIT TRAILS
Imagine the City of Los Angeles as a bountiful landscape with streets lined with public fruit trees. The artists of Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) are working with Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and local communities in the Westlake neighborhood to create the City’s first “Urban Fruit Trail” – over 150-fruit trees along a walking trail, will be planted, nurtured, and harvested by the public – in the MacArthur Park neighborhood.

Last month, the Urban Fruit Trails launched when 12 fruit trees were planted in LaFayette Park. This coming week, 12 citrus trees are being planted in MacArthur Park – with thanks to the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. This is truly groundbreaking and exciting for Los Angeles – we are re-imaging our green space.

We are planting the perimeter of LAUSD’s high school campus at YOKA in Koreatown near the Wilshire/Vermont METRO station with a public orchard that will be cared for by the students as part of the Urban Fruit Trail and we will plant fruit trees that connect these public trees in a network of trails along parkways ( the strip of growing space between the sidewalk and street in front of a building or private home) and next to sidewalks . We’d love to have you join our project that will transform the neighborhood into an “community garden.” In addition to creating a fun, beautiful – and drought tolerant – walking trail with delicious free and healthy fruit for the community; planting 150-fruit trees will help reduce air, water, soil, noise pollution and crime statistics in the area.

There are several ways to get involved and we would love to share them with you. Just reply by email and let us know how to contact you.

Thank you for your time and support!

Vivas las frutas!

David Burns and Austin Young

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ABOUT THE COLLABORATION

The Urban Fruit Trail is the pilot project for Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit’s groundbreaking global-scale public art project, which will transform often-underserved areas with a network of public walking trails lined by fruit trees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9t95cpVZs

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. find more info here. Fallen Fruit began in Los Angeles by creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world.

Heart Of Los Angeles provides underserved youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education, and strengthen their communities: http://heartofla.org

In neighborhoods often overrun by poverty, crime and a feeling of hopelessness, Heart of Los Angeles invests in youth to build stronger communities. Heart of Los Angeles gives some of the city’s most vulnerable youth a chance to succeed in life. HOLA provides underserved youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education and strengthen their communities. From what started with just a handful of kids in a dilapidated gym, Heart of Los Angeles now serves over 2,400 youth ages 6-24, in a safe and supportive environment. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, Heart of Los Angeles is stronger than ever, and this is just the beginning of exciting things to come.

additional sites:
HOLA
ARTBOUND

Los Angeles–based art collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) invite you to participate in our new public art commission about LOVE and the Pommegranate, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball.

Submit a photo of yourself with someone you LOVE by email before July 14

Everyday representations of love, holding hands, hugs,the way you smile with you are happy with a person you love. Maybe your grandmother has a photograph that has been forgotten? A birthday party? a selfie with your best friend? a Wedding? There are special days that we remember that others can’t understand how in love with life you are and maybe you photographed this? Historic photographs. Vintage images. cellphone pictures. We are interested in all kinds of photographs for this exhibition!

How to get involved

Submit hi-resolution jpg images of photographs of you with someone you love by email to info @ fallenfruit.org with a brief description of the image and its meaning. The submission materials may be recent or historic however, they must include you or your immediate family and received by June 14th 2014. Please include your contact name, email, and preferred phone number. There is no limit to the jpg’s you may submit, and all pieces included in the online exhibition, with descriptions and photo credits.

love,
David and Austin of Fallen Fruit

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

On Sunday, May 4, visitors were invited to the Skirball to adopt a pomegranate tree. David Burns and Austin Young were on site and distributed 150 young trees and encouraged recipients to plant them in public space or along the borders of private property, where the fruits will be shared and enjoyed by the community. Each recipient was asked to sign an adoption form promising to plant the tree immediately and care for it until it is established and healthy.

Skirball Cultural Center presents
FALLEN FRUIT OF THE SKIRBALL. on exhibition through October 12, 2014 A centuries-old ketubbah (Jewish marriage contract), the pomegranate, and love serve as inspiration for the artists’ latest public participatory art commission.

Contribute to the exhibition here: Share a photo of u & someone u love for the installation, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball. more info here: