Language Garden: Bertolt Brecht’s Garden In Progress

Language Garden
Sunday, September 3
6:00pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden
1911 7th Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90018

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Language Garden
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden

Installment no. 7:
Bertolt Brecht's Garden in Progress

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Living in exile in Los Angeles during the 1940s, Bertolt Brecht maps his new physical surroundings as well as his emigrant experience through his poetry. Across the urban landscapes of Brecht’s stanzas, gardens are everywhere. As both concrete and metaphorical sites, the gardens’ ubiquitous presence in the poems mirrors LA’s urban fabric.

Join Simona Ferrari as she features eight of Brecht's LA poems, read by Benno Herz in their original German version and by Cleo Abramian in their English translation.

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Simona Ferrari is an architect based in Zurich. She received her Master of Architecture from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. She is a recipient of the MAK Schindler Scholarship and is currently a resident at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.

Language Garden is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.