Unycyn Civic Arts

Our community needs access to safe, green parks where people of all ages can play and engage with each other as well as the world around us. San Pedro’s 22nd Street Park has the potential to be this place, yet currently lacks resources and programming. Our project will transform this under-resourced civic place into a thriving, accessible and beautiful space with native plants and civic art, where Angelenos and visitors will feel welcomed to play and create now and into the future.

Neighborhood Resource Gardens (NRGs) are community open spaces with urban gardens and neighborhood emergency kits for disaster relief too. The NRG program is a list of 15 elements to connect urban gardens, resilience hubs, and resources. NRGs cultivate civic space to advance public health, environmental beautification, and foster community connections as well as individual engagement.

Neighborhood Resource Gardens will provide more equitable access to vital open space, environmental education, and natural beauty. These civic places will also cultivate community connectivity and resiliency with emergency preparedness. NRG projects and programs will offer opportunities to identify, connect, and engage resources that enhance individual and collective wellbeing.

Neighborhood Resiliency Gardens (NRG) provide opportunities for STEAM education and a canvas for public art. In collaboration with the Marine Science Magnet at San Pedro High School Olguin Campus, Our first NRG will provide a project-based learning curriculum integrating science, technology, and the arts. Using the Resilience Lab’s WEDEW, our NRG will provide renewable energy, water and biochar for an off-the-grid source of water & energy, enhanced food production, self-reliance, climate adaptation and community relief when a disaster strikes.

“Resiliency IN A BOX” is a mural covered repurposed shipping container housing equipment producing a renewable, sustainable source of potable water, soil enhancements and clean energy on a daily basis. Our project provides opportunities for STEAM education and a canvas for public art. In the Community Healing Gardens' Tech Garden at LAUSD Markham Middle School in Watts, it will improve food production plus be an off-the-grid, vital resource for the entire neighborhood when a disaster strikes.

We will produce a Civic Arts and Engagement Program connecting communities and cultures by creating, cultivating and sustaining "art gardens" (serving as outdoor classrooms, meeting places, art studios, urban gardens) in public open spaces along the LA River. In partnership with adjacent schools representing a diversity of people and environments, we’ll show how to bring more Beauty to civic spaces and build community through creating healthy and happy places for people of all ages to “play”.