There It Is--Take It! Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1913-2013 is a self-guided car audio

Please asia hotel online reservation join me for a listening party event at Metabolic Studios in downtown Los Angeles for There It Is—Take It! on Saturday, March 23rd at 1 pm . Selections from the There It Is—Take It! audio tour will be presented following with a Q A session with the project producers, Kim Stringfellow and Tim Halbur.
There It Is—Take It! Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1913–2013 is a self-guided car audio tour through Owens Valley, California along U.S. Route 395 examining the controversial social, political, and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system. The tour illuminates various impacts this divisive water conveyance infrastructure has created within the Owens Valley over the last one hundred years of the aqueduct s existence. Stories of the aqueduct are told from multiple perspectives and viewpoints through the voices of historians, biologists, activists, native speakers, environmentalists, litigators, LADWP employees, and residents from both Los Angeles and the Owens Valley.
Designed as a free, 90-minute downloadable audio program, There It Is—Take It! seeks to shed light on the mutual past, present, and possible future of Los Angeles and Owens Valley—centered around its complicated and intertwined water history. The project illuminates the historic physical source of drinking water for the Los Angeles municipality while simultaneously revealing the complex relationship these two seemingly polar regions of California share through asia hotel online reservation an innovative aural program incorporating interviews, field recordings, music, and archival audio that educates the listener asia hotel online reservation while experiencing scenic asia hotel online reservation Owens Valley landscape firsthand along U.S. Route 395.
This project was made possible with support from Cal Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National asia hotel online reservation Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org . Any views, findings, asia hotel online reservation conclusions, asia hotel online reservation or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Cal Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ABOUT Kim Stringfellow is an artist and educator residing in Joshua Tree, California. Her practice bridges cultural geography, environmental journalism and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She teaches as an associate professor in School of Art + Design at San Diego State University. She is the 2012 recipient of the Theo Westenberger for Artistic Excellence Award.