Nancy Popp: Mason Line Hammocks with Side Street Projects

Side Street Projects presents “Mason Line Hammocks”, a community project with artist, Nancy Popp. Nancy Popp and Side Street Projects sta will facilitate the making of Mason Line hammocks through a series of workshops with local residents in NW Pasadena. Through the physical activity of knitting, and imaginative poetic and narrative /storytelling, together we will create a resting place which occupies and holds space for both an individual body and it’s sustaining networks.

Using Mason Line, the material common in Popp’s urban architectural interventions, residents and community members will knit hammocks that will be installed in public parks adjacent to libraries, a high school, and the Side Street headquarters. A series of public events from the hammocks will be co-curated with local writers and poets. These events will bring together artists, writers, community organizers, students and local residents.

This project will launch at the “Big Draw” in collaboration with the Arts Entertainment and Media Academy. The main Hammock will be on display near the entrance of John Muir High School from November 7th to December 20th, 2016.

The knitting workshops offer an equitable space to exchange hand skills, ideas, personal anecdotes, and shared labor. By inviting local residents and communities to come together and work on the Mason Line hammocks, social bonds are created that mirror the physical materials and process being used to construct them. The support for and of each hammock is literally created by the community that will access and use the hammock by resting their bodies within it. These bonds have the opportunity to continue and expand outside of the project, aecting the ways we work together on pressing political and social issues. Support networks make initiatives and action possible. These circles function as places for dialogue to learn about issues in each community that can be thought through collectively.

This project will manifest according to each site or location; for example, on the street as a public intervention, taking a moment of reflection in the midst of a day of study, or a rest in a green park for to read and to listen.

This project is funded in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Special thanks to Side Street Projects’ community partners: John Muir High School, Light Bringer Project, Armory Center for the Arts & City of Pasadena NW Programs Division.

Side Street Projects, Casitas and Canada, Pasadena, (626) 798-7774, info@sidestreet.org or visit http://sidestreet.org/.

EVENTS

One Hammock will be created and installed in front of John Muir High School from November 7th to December 20th 2016. There will also be workshops and temporary installations at La Pintoresca Library and Park from January to March 2017. Knitting workshops to create the hammocks will be held at John Muir High School on October 29th and November 5th 2017, and at La Pintoresca Library on January 28th 2017. Community Events will be held at John Muir High School on November 19th 2016 and December 10th 2016, and at Pintoresca Library on February 25th.

CALENDAR

Knitting workshop at the Big Draw Pasadena
Saturday, October 29, 2016 from 11 AM – 2 PM at John Muir High School
1905 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena

Knitting Workshop
Saturday, November 5, 2016 from 11 AM – 2 PM at the Side Street Mobile Headquarters
Cacitas and Canada Ave, Pasadena

Community Event
Saturday, November 19, 2016 from 1 PM – 4 PM at John Muir High School
1905 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena

Community Event
Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 1 PM – 4 PM at John Muir High School
1905 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena

Knitting Workshop
Saturday, January 28, 2017 from 1 PM – 4 PM at La Pintoresca Branch Library
1355 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena

Community Event
Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 1 PM – 4 PM at La Pintoresca Branch Library
1355 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena
Side Street Projects presents “Mason Line Hammocks”, a community project with artist, Nancy Popp.