Voice Your Support for Bergamot Station


Bergamont Station

On March 27th, the Exposition Construction Authority and MTA might consider razing Bergamot Station in order to house a maintenance facility for their cars when light rail comes to the West Side.

The Exposition Rail Line will bring much needed light rail from Culver City to Santa Monica.

While we are in favor of the completion of Phase 2 of the Exposition Rail Line, it is imperative that both the Exposition Construction Authority, the MTA and the City of Santa Monica understand how important Bergamot Station is to the cultural life of Los Angeles.

Take Action by sending a message by March 25th to the Exposition Construction Authority Planning Committee that the Expo Rail should not be placed at, Bergamont Station, or  the surrounding vicinity.










 

Importance of Art in creating a more conscious world

I am all in favor of the light rail. Yet at the same time, the importance of Bergamot Station is even more critical. It is a culture that looks at efficiency and monetary profit only as its highest standard, which has gotten us into the current state of failing economy and environmental health. We must, as a culture, begin to understand and honor that which is intangible and non-linear; i.e. the expression and experience of consciousness opening to a wider vista of possibility and imagination. Without it, we as a species will fail to understand the interconnectedness of all life, and thinking ourselves to be apart, create our own demise. ART and science must weave together. It is the left and the right brain communicating. It is vital that an Art space like Bergamot Station be revered as much as a center of advanced science, for the well-being of our community, and for the well-being of our continued participation on this abundant earth. Instead of an either/or proposition, perhaps there is a way that makes the existence Bergamot Station, and housing the necessities of the light rail system not antagonistic, but mutually enhancing. I believe it is important to start thinking in creative ways that comes from a place of an abundant universe, instead of the model which we have been with; i.e. a place of lack wherein one wins and everything else loses.