Parallel Programs
Ancient Ocean Arcade
Open 9am-1pm on April 9-10,
and on Saturdays from April 16-21
Tarot readings by Vanessa Santos on April 9, 10, 23, 30, May 7, and 21 by appointment at ancientpocket@gmail.com
Mirror Manager (Abbey Sarver) and Ancient Pocket (Vanessa Santos)
HDTS HQ at the Sky Village Swap Meet
Other Desert Radio performance
April 9, 7-7:30pm
Organized by Caroline Partamian and Ethan Primason, featuring Andrew Storrs, Nathan Ober, Spencer Keizer, Elena Yu, Derek Monypeny, Emma Palm, Caroline Partamian, and Ethan Primason.
The Palms Restaurant
Bob Carr’s Crystal Cave
April 23, 11am-1pm
Open for one day only!
Sky Village Outdoor Marketplace
7028 Theater Road
Yucca Valley, California 92284
Disruptive Structures: Edie Fake and Aili Schmeltz
April 2-May
Open Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm and by appointment
BOXO Projects
62732 Sullivan Road, Joshua Tree, CA 92252
boxoprojects.com/experiments-in-transformation
bernard@boxoprojects.com
LAND LINE
Group exhibition of work by Elena Yu, Jim Kanter, Syd Abady, Abbey Lee Sarver, Harley Hollenstein, and Connor Thomas Schwab.
March 13th - April 24th
Quality Coins
7303 Apache Trail, Yucca Valley CA 92284
Open by appointment through the office of Ry Rocklen at ryrock@gmail.com and via Instagram @qualitycoinsyv @ryrocklen. Closing event on Sunday, April 24th from 12-3pm.
Pink Moon Ruins - An Installation by Dan John Anderson
April 10-17
Open by appointment only, with a closing reception on April 16th from 5-10pm
Yucca Valley, CA
LEAP! - Susan Kleinberg
April 9, 6-8pm
Opening Day Screening
Drink and refreshments will be served
April 9-May 22
Open Thursdays-Mondays, 7am-3pm
Indoor video screening in the Food for Thought Café
Outdoor video screening visible from the parking lot of the retreat center, best viewed at dusk
Joshua Tree Retreat Center
59700 29 Palms Highway
Joshua Tree, CA 92252
Live from Joshua Tree
April 23, 7pm
A Live and Virtual Spoken Word Event and fundraiser for Mil-Tree, curated and hosted by Cheryl Montelle.
The Sanctuary at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center
For tickets and details visit livefromjoshuatree.com
Woven Windows
Weekends from April 30-May 15
Mil-tree invites veterans, Marines, their families, and other community members to collaborate with local artist Ben Allanoff to build “Woven Windows”— a temporary large scale sculptural installation woven from plant materials— catalyzing environmental awareness, personal growth, and community connections.
Email miltreecommunity@gmail.com for more information
All Summer’s Eve Desert Rendezvous
May 13 & 14
The Palms, Wonder Valley
HDTS 2022
Curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London
9 new site-specific works in Pioneertown, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and Wonder Valley. Artists include Dineo Seshee Bopape, Alice Channer, Gerald Clarke, Erkan Ozgen, Jack Pierson, Dana Sherwood, Kate Lee Short, Paloma Varga Weisz, and Rachel Whiteread
April 9 — May 29, 2022
HDTS 2022 emerges from a heavy felt shift in both culture-at-large and our local desert communities. Its title The Searchers shines light on the “regenerative ruin,” a concept that follows 21st century human intervention in our desert region. As a historically nomadic environment, the desert has played host to waves of different existences—transitory settlements, sanctuaries, and living experiments. This particular desert, at the bottom of the dense Mojave, occupies a fringe space between the western apexes of Los Angeles and Las Vegas where these experiments flourish. Its uniqueness lies in the many ungoverned moments, layered visions, and transposed uses of space that comprise a landscape full of attempted solutions to the basic question of “How to live?”
HDTS 2022 also included ephemeral programs at our community partner sites including the Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley and The Palms in Wonder Valley. Documentation of these programs can be found here.
