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# Learn to Make a Sustainable Artist Handbook and Prepare for Existential Crisis
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/assemblies-navel-los-angeles/
- Published: 2020-01-29T17:58:01.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:52:40.000Z
- Description: At Navel, community-led learning groups investigate specific topics, from wealth redistribution, to sustainable art-making, to Black ethics in rap.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, California, Events, Los Angeles, Navel, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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Navel, “New LA Futures: LA’s People Charter,” organized by Matthew Donovan, Paige Emery, Francecso Canas, Olive Kimoto, and others, spring 2019 (photos courtesy Navel)

Hosted at the downtown art space Navel, [Assemblies](https://navel.la/assemblies/?ref=hyperallergic.com) are community-led learning groups that investigate a certain topic, from wealth redistribution, to sustainable art-making, to Black ethics in rap. Assembly participants and leaders spend three months exploring their area of inquiry, with micro-grants, guidance, and space provided by Navel. At the end of that period, each assembly group presents their findings in the form of a talk, publication, performance, or website.

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Navel, “New LA Futures: LA’s People Charter”

This Monday, February 3, eight groups from the second quarter of the Assemblies program [will be sharing their findings](https://navel.la/events/assembliesq2-presentations/?ref=hyperallergic.com) with the public. A group led by (Hyperallergic contributor) Renée Reizman will present on a “Radicalized Dead Drop Network,” meant to provide the homeless population with resources and information on technological devices placed around the city. Nina Sarnelle’s group will lead a workshop exploring touch as an artistic medium, particularly in dance and music. Two groups will tackle impending environmental catastrophes: R. Kauff and Jen P. Harris will lead “Deep Adaptation for Artists,” aimed at community building in the face of existential crisis; and Sara Drake and Maru Garcia’s assembly will motivate artists to engage in ecologically responsible methods in their own practices through the creation of a “Sustainable Artist Handbook.” For those inspired to lead their own Assemblies, the [deadline for proposals](https://navel.la/news/assembliesq3-opencall/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the next session is on February 5.

**When:** Monday, February 3, 7pm–10pm  
**Where:** Navel (1611 S. Hope Street, Downtown, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*Navel.la*](https://navel.la/events/assembliesq2-presentations/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*