This iteration of Reading and Listening by Moonrise, taking place in David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden and curated by artist/writer Vanessa Holyoak, explores nighttime ecologies through a series of readings and performances that consider how undefined and opaque conditions are heightened by the night. Artists and writers will share language and sound that is in conversation with the invisible links between natural events such as oceanic tides, celestial bodies, and the electromagnetic fields within the space of the garden, offering an occasion for collective listening under the light of the full moon.

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Reading and Listening by Moonrise
Saturday, September 26, 2026 from 7:00–9:00 PM
David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden

Reading & Listening by Moonrise is a seasonal series held on the eve of the full moon (or as close to it as possible), featuring performances and immersive sound experiences with multidisciplinary sound and performance artists, writers, and poets. This program offers listeners moments of reflection, connection, and joy within a community-centered green space.

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Vanessa Holyoak is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary writer, artist, and researcher. Their writing and visual art practices bridge art criticism, hybrid fiction, lyrical nonfiction, intermedial installation, and photo poetics to take up questions of cultural and ecological disappearance from a queer diasporic perspective. Holyoak is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative media and culture at USC, where they are researching the queer liberatory potential of nocturnal states of indeterminacy across contemporary Asian diasporic and Francophone art, writing, and film. Holyoak’s first novel, I See More Clearly in the Dark, published in 2023 by Sming Sming Books (second edition and ebook 2025), explores the longing for forestial darkness in an era of hyper-illumination. Holyoak’s writing has been published in Artforum, ASAP/Journal, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, & Exhibitions, BOMB, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, East of Borneo, e-flux, frieze, Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, and elsewhere. Select exhibitions and residencies include the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, CalArts, Columbia University, Cove Park, Casa Lü, Harkawik, Human Resources, LA Artcore, Monte Vista Projects, Millay Arts, Plot 田, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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REFRESHMENTS BY
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ACCESSIBILITY
Parking & Arrival
Street parking is available on the main boulevard and residential side streets. Check posted signs for street sweeping restrictions and parking limits. We recommend using public transportation, and the nearest bus lines are the 35, 38, the LADOT Dash Midtown route). Areas of the garden are very wild at the moment, and it is thus not accessible by wheelchair.

Restrooms
There is a restroom available across the street on the second floor of a building only accessible by staircase. A temporary event staff person will assist in escorting you to the correct location.

CREDITS
Reading and Listening by Moonrise is generously supported by Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles (ARLA).