Southern California ASLA

Getting "Back 2 Normal" - brought to you by the most abnormal IES Chapter - IESOC
2021-12-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Eureka Building, 1621 Alton Parkway, Irvine, California, 92660
Exterior Lighting Expo (ELE)
Network with many professionals in lighting, architecture, engineering, landscaping & Construction
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Conference on Landscape Architecture
2021-11-19 - 2021-11-22

The Gottlieb Garden UCLAxOpen Lecture Series
2021-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
More than 30 years ago, Susan Gottlieb, creator of The Gottlieb Native Garden, started on a journey that would ultimately convert her one-acre property in Los Angeles into one of the premier native gardens in the United States. Today, it’s a flourishing ecosystem, containing 200 species of California native plants and trees.
As this ecosystem’s architect, Susan has cultivated a miniature biome that’s a National Wildlife Federation Certified Backyard Habitat, a Xerces Society designated Pollinator Habitat, and an active site for scientific research, education, and collaboration among a wide range of environmental groups and universities. In her talk, Susan shares stories and photos from this urban oasis.

Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Programs Gottlieb

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The Gottlieb Garden UCLAxOpen Lecture Series - Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
2021-11-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual

Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change - A Monthly Speaker Series
2021-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

San Gabriel Valley Wildfire Adaptation Virtual Summit
2021-11-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual

The Gottlieb Garden UCLAxOpen Lecture Series - The Gottlieb Native Garden: A California Love Story
2021-11-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual

Leadership Retreat
2021-10-16 | Home of Baxter Miller, Corona
All leader retreat for elected leaders and committee chairs.

202 Plant Fair
2021-10-02 08:15 - 15:15 | LA Arboretum, Ayres Hall, 301 N. Baldwin, Arcadia
In coordination with The LA Arboretum, come get inspired for Fall/Winter planting season. This event combines both educational talks AND plant displays for sale and discussion from the top SoCal wholesale growers.
Enjoy talking one-on-one with the leaders in the industry. Hear their recommendations for plantings for the fall. What plants are tough enough for the new challenges from our climate? What are the new gorgeous cultivars?
It is a smashing day for anyone in the landscape profession or a passionate horticulturalist or home gardener.
This event can be enjoyed for a whole day affair, or you could just pop in and peruse the plants for a few hours. It was very popular in 2018 and 2019, and now we are back.
Tickets have a timed entry point (am or pm), but you can stay as long as you want once you are there. The ticket also includes access to the LA Arboretum. You can definitely make a day of it.

In addition, the very popular OPPORTUNITY DRAWINGS will occur 2x in the day. You will be given a wrist band and an OPPORTUNITY TICKET as you check in.
Ticket holders all have a chance to win a plant (or two). You must be present to win. Note the schedule below for timing.
Please join the fun for a full day of lectures, shopping and mix-and- mingling with top SoCal growers & wholesale nurseries.
Enjoy IN PERSON shopping and mingling in Ayres Hall’s AIR-CONDITIONED splendor.

CHANGES PER COVID:
You must buy your ticket on the LA ARBORETUM website and select an available TIMED ENTRY point. BUY HERE.
Note that the Arboretum has been consistently selling out of available time slots, so don’t wait until the last minute.
Tickets must be pre-purchased online only.
Your purchase for the event includes access to the Arboretum.
Masks will be required to enter Ayers Hall.
Lecture area seats will be spaced as much as possible, but that also means limited seats are available.
Please plan ahead and buy your tickets online early. You know it’s going to be a fantastic event. Don’t risk getting locked out!
The Plant fair begins at 8:30 am. Come early for a cup of coffee and get in before regular LA Arboretum crowds.
The featured presentation schedule by leaders in the industry is attached. More than 14 of Southern California’s top wholesale nurseries will be attending. More will be added closer to the event.
Partial list of participating vendors below.
3.5 CEUs for APLD MEMBERS
Here is the LINK TO LA ARBORETUM SALES
PRICING FOR TICKETS ON LA Arboretum site:
TICKET TYPE:
GENERAL ADMISSION – $25.
LA ARBORETUM MEMBERS – $15
APLD MEMBERS – $17
STUDENTS W/ID – $18

Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change - A Speaker Series
2021-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Quality of Life Design Awards - Reception and Presentation
2021-09-30 17:30 - 21:30 | Omni Hotel at California Plaza, 251 South Olive, Los Angeles, California
This year’s theme, “The Growing Importance of Outdoors,” speaks to what we already know. The outdoors is a crucial part of our existence. It became more evident to others during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a community, people spoke out about the lack of it in some neighborhoods, and the abundance in others. Our backyards became respites from home schooling, working from home, and places to see others more safely.

The award presentation will be held at the Omni Hotel Los Angeles, “outdoor” Water Court Plaza on September 30.

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Community Garden Tour
2021-09-25 09:00 - 11:30 | Rosemead Community Garden
CultivaLA is a non profit organization that is re-imagining urban community vegetable gardens to address the scarcity of nature, places to recreate, and the lack of access to fresh produce in underserved communities in the LA area.

Learn More Here

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Quality of Life Design Awards Jury
2021-09-18 | Marina Del Rey Hotel
Jurors come together for in person review and deliberation of award submissions in Marina Del Rey

6th Annual BMLA Annual BBQ
2021-09-16 17:00 - 20:00 | BMLA, Inc., 310 North Joy, Corona, CA, 92879, United States
Annual BBQ for ASLA members, colleagues and allied professionals

SoCal Ex Com Meeting
2021-09-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual
Monthly business meeting of the chapter leadership.

ExCom Meeting
2021-09-15 18:00 - 19:15, 2021-08-25 18:00 - 19:15, 2021-07-20 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-05-18 18:00 - 19:30
Monthly business meeting of the SoCal leadership

A Mid-Day Conversation with: Kelly Comras, FASLA & Claire Latane', ASLA
2021-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Webinar
Join SoCal ASLA for a lunch hour conversation between two accomplished members of our chapter, Kelly Comras and Claire Latané. They will discuss schools, mental health, and authorship, as well as highlights from Claire´s new book Schools That Heal, Design With Mental Health in Mind.
The Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments (CHILE) has been selected by Claire Latané to be amplified during this talk, and your voluntary donation can further support their work:
Use this link to send your support (link hosted by Cal Poly Pomona on behalf of CHILE)
Read more about Kelly Comras and Claire Latane’ here
Free for members
$15 for non members
Registration at eventbrite/socal-asla/events

Net Zero 2021
2021-09-13 - 2021-09-16 | Virtual

ASKETCHLA
2021-08-22 10:00 - 12:00 | LA State Historic Park

Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery Open House
2021-08-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery, 2501 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Redondo Beach, California, 90278
Open House
Lunch by El Amigo: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Nursery Tours: 11:30 – 1:00 pm
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Implementation and Details of the Watershed Design Process
2021-07-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Part 2 with Tom Rau on designing with water for drought, resilience and our California climate.
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Watershed Design Process with Tom Rau
2021-07-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
One of two lectures on designing with water for drought, resilience and our California climate.

Watershed Design Process with Tom Rau
Part 1: Conceptual Water Design

38th Annual CLASS Fund Golf Tournament
2021-06-28 | Aliso Viejo Country Club
Join us at Aliso Viejo Country Club on June 28 for CLASS Fund’s annual fundraiser.

Registration and Sponsorship Information here

GROUND - Broken grounds (Part 7)
2021-05-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual
an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings
While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other, to our pasts, and to the more-than-human – materials, systems, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material), a verb (to ground; its agency), and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds, integrates activists, designers, artists, scholars, scientists, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities.
Perhaps the most considered “grounds” by landscape architects, broken ground refers to sites of contamination, extraction and disturbance. Yet the discourse around extraction has remained relatively focused on discrete sites of large-operation “natural resource” extraction (mainly mines), rather than more nuanced environmental manifestations including the extraction of value and labor. Additionally, rhetoric around remediation and mitigation have largely left out the ground as a source of risk to bodies most exposed. This final conversation additionally interrogates what it means to live and die on the grounds we (humans) have profoundly altered.
MODERATOR: Vittoria Di Palma, PhD, Associate Professor, USC School of Architecture
Invitees practicing across art, geography, environmental humanities, medical anthropology, landscape architecture

Chapter Call for Nominations Closes
2021-05-15
The chapter is actively seeking nominations for the 2021-2022 calendar year. Learn More Here

ASLA National Hosts LARE Prep Workshop Section 4: Grading, Drainage and Construction Documents
2021-05-14 11:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
National ASLA’s LARE Prep Committee will host virtual L.A.R.E. Prep Workshops for Section 3 and Section 4 on May 7 and May 14, respectively. Participants can save $10 through Sunday, April 25 with our early-bird registration price of $40. Workshop instructors, comprised of ASLA LARE Prep Committee members, will review the content and format of the exams, share study strategies and test taking tips, and engage in Q&A with the participants. ASLA also has on-demand workshops for Section 1 and Section 2 available through the ASLA online learning portal. Please help us spread the word to our emerging professionals of these invaluable resources.
Cost:
$40
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