Upcoming
Events

WORKING TOGETHER FILM SERIES: YOUTH REVOLUTION
Your friends from the Echo Park Film Center return to their old home to launch the first of a monthly film series exploring labor, capitalism and working class movements across the world. For this inaugural showcase, we present some gems from the EPFC archive from the past 24 years that speak truth to power and challenge the paradigms controlling our lives.

HeART MART: LA VACACICLETA POP UP SHOP AND SEED LIBRARY AT COTTONWOOD URBAN FARM
HeART Mart is our pop-up mobile shop in which we sell our heart such as zines, prints, stickers, buttons, and more. In addition to our pop-up shop there will be FREE community access to our Seed Library! Bring seeds to trade or simply come and take seed to grow!

Mending Cafe with Radical Sewist
Thinking about dumping that old garment? Why not give love with your clothes a second chance at the Radical Sewist Mending Cafe! A sewing/mending cafe is similar in spirit to a repair cafe. It’s a place where you can bring damaged clothes or unfinished projects to receive help fixing or finishing them. You can also socialize with others, to get new ideas, make friends, and share common interests.

What The Flux(us)!
Surrealist parlour games. And word games. Bring your best dada(ist) play.

Haiku You: A Monthly ONLINE Film-Poetry Workshop
In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

DICHOS Y RECUERDOS: CONVIVA CON COSTURA (Quilt-making Workshop)
iConviva con Costura! Únase a nosotros en un proyecto comunitario de narración de historias y fabricación de colchas. Join us in a community quilt making story telling project. Nos reunaremos cada ultimo Viernes, de 10AM a 12PM.

ALL ALONG THE SHELVES: AN ART SHOW & GATHERING
Join us for a convivial evening of mail art, mini-zines, and music as we celebrate a magical month with Tsundoku Librarian-In-Residence Wendy Oberlander.

PRODUCE, PROCESS, PROJECT: A YOUTH FILM WORKSHOP
This workshop is being offered to YOUTH from ages 16 to 25 in hopes of capturing the magic of motion picture film and creating works that speak truth to power. This is your journey and your ideas! The group will come up with a theme and film the project during this workshop.

LES ENCYCLOPEDIETTES: PROSE AND IMAGE, YOUR WAY
With special guest artist and flaneûr, Bill Pechet. Come 'round to make a small volume: random bits of information using original encyclopedia pages, re-ordered and re-imagined. You can also make blank books for doodles, recipes, poetry and manifestos!

LBCMA Film Club: An Evening of 16mm FIlms with 3TON Cinema
3TON cinema is an itinerant microcinema and 16mm film “orphanage” founded in 2009 in Oakland, CA. With their collection of roughly 1,001 ephemeral titles from the twentieth century, they seek to bring small-gauge analog cinema into the future in unexpected ways.

SURREALIST SCREENWRITING
In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll explore the history of surrealism, examples from cinema history, and the art world. Then we will practice surrealist writing through different exercises like automatic writing and found objects to unlock our impulses, imagination, and connections to the unconscious. Putting it together in a final project, we’ll share our scenes on their feet through collaborative ensemble work!

FEBRUARY SCREENING: BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Observing Black History Month, we will be sharing a series of short films selected by our collective. What better way to spend Valentine’s Day that to watch some classy films? Food provided AND HeART Mart will also be open for business! Buy your loved ones special made art made with LOVE and for the day of LOVE! Enjoy other resources in attendance.

ART CLUB
Our Zoom instalment of our international collaboration with Art Club Frome in Somerset, UK! Zoom on in for relaxed art-making on a secret theme to be announced at the start of the session. The only rule is MAKE.

Leave Your Stamp
Make rubber stamps - letters, words, drawings - and take them to the streets! Send out a postcard with your one-word message. Make wrapping paper. Create your own alphabet.

Eco-Friendly film Processing with LBCMA at PLACE LB
Come learn how to develop a variety of (Black & White) film types using an eco-friendly developer made of instant coffee, vitamin c, washing soda and table salt. All supplies (including cameras and film) provided, and no experience necessary.

TSUNDOKU LIBRARY: ALL ALONG THE SHELVES
Librarian-In-Residence Wendy Oberlander invites you to be part of an international mail art project…no postage required!

LET’S HEAR IT FOR YOU(TH) READING TO YOU(TH)
Drop by the Tsundoku Library at breathing room to read to your friends, new and old. All young ages welcome, with an adult. Kids can also make a wee book to take home. Free. Books and materials provided. Capacity: 10 participants.

Hello! My Name Is Poetry!
The first event at EPFC North’s new creative community space. Bring your own - or a favourite - poem to share. Enjoy the fresh air at breathing room with new and old friends. Refreshments provided.

DICHOS Y RECUERDOS: A WORKSHOP FOR SENIORS
FREE SENIOR CLASS ALERT! Conviva con Comida!
Les presentamos nuestra primera reunion de nuestro proyecto de historia oral para mayores! Tiene alguna familiar en la cuidad de Panorama City, Arleta, Sun Valley, o Lake Balboa? Comparte esta programa! No es necesario ser artista!
Nos reunaremos cada ultimo Viernes, de 10AM a 12PM.

Haiku You: A Monthly ONLINE Film-Poetry Workshop
In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

OPEN LAB TUESDAYS
Hey! We’re open! Come by and hang with the LBCMA/PLACE LB crew. Tour the space, read a zine, borrow a book, watch a movie, print a poster, make a collage, learn to use a camera, plan a revolution, make some friends or simply sit on a comfy couch while you check your email! We can’t wait to see you:-)

OPEN LAB TUESDAYS
Hey! We’re open! Come by and hang with the LBCMA/PLACE LB crew. Tour the space, read a zine, borrow a book, watch a movie, print a poster, make a collage, learn to use a camera, plan a revolution, make some friends or simply sit on a comfy couch while you check your email! We can’t wait to see you:-)

Long Beach Community Media Arts Film Club: Basques and the Disappearing West
Come join us for the first installment of LBCMA Film Club, a monthly screening series at PLACE Long Beach. This month we’re watching Disappearing West: a documentary film project about the cultural and visual history of Basque-Americans in the Western United States. Filmmaker in attendance.

OPEN LAB TUESDAYS
Hey! We’re open! Come by and hang with the LBCMA/PLACE LB crew. Tour the space, read a zine, borrow a book, watch a movie, print a poster, make a collage, learn to use a camera, plan a revolution, make some friends or simply sit on a comfy couch while you check your email! We can’t wait to see you:-)

ART CLUB
Our Zoom instalment of our international collaboration with Art Club Frome in Somerset, UK! Zoom on in for relaxed art-making on a secret theme to be announced at the start of the session. The only rule is MAKE.

SECOND SUNDAYS: VISION BOARD
Make a 2025 Vision Board with us for January Second Sundays on the 12th from 12 to 4, this event is open to all ages & all materials will be provided but feel free to bring your own supplies, think washi tapes, stickers, markers & crayons! 🖍️

OPEN LAB TUESDAYS
Hey! We’re open! Come by and hang with the LBCMA/PLACE LB crew. Tour the space, read a zine, borrow a book, watch a movie, print a poster, make a collage, learn to use a camera, plan a revolution, make some friends or simply sit on a comfy couch while you check your email! We can’t wait to see you:-)

Intro to Stop Motion Animation
Discover the art of stop-motion animation! In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of creating your own short film frame by frame.

Haiku You: A Monthly ONLINE Film-Poetry Workshop
In this workshop for poets and new poets, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into experimental short films.

Handle with care 2.0
Screening with EPFC International Online via Twitch
HANDLE WITH CARE 2.0
Saturday, December 21, 2024 | 2pm - 6pm
Tune into LA VACAcicleta’s second showing of Handle with Care, a curated art show and film screening highlighting disability awareness month. Handle with Care 2.0 will stream each artist and showcase their work on a loop over Twitch.
More info: https://lavacacicleta818.cargo.site/

INTRO TO BOOKBINDING
If you’ve been curious about making artist books and zines, this is a great starter class. In this one-day intensive, you’ll gain the know-how to get start creating your own artist books.

SKETCHING THE SOLSTICE
Image by the magnificent Sheryl McDougald.
Workshop with EPFC International Online via Zoom
SKETCHING THE SOLSTICE
Saturday, December 21: 10 - 11 AM PACIFIC
Join us as we celebrate the shortest day of the year by sketching the winter garden of our dreams. Free online event! Everyone welcome!
To sign up and receive the Zoom link send an email with SOLSTICE in the subject line to epfccollective@gmail.com

HeART MART: LA VACACICLETA POP UP SHOP AND SEED LIBRARY AT COTTONWOOD URBAN FARM
HeART Mart is our pop-up mobile shop in which we sell our heart such as zines, prints, stickers, buttons, and more. In addition to our pop-up shop there will be FREE community access to our Seed Library! Bring seeds to trade or simply come and take seed to grow!


EPFC is 23
Please join us for a fun-filled night of films and friends featuring work by the EPFC Famiglia including a special collection of commissioned short films by Lily Sarosi, Cheli Veloz and Harper Paradowski. There will be food, friends, joy and wonder.

AN EVENING WITH LARISSA SANSOUR
Born in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently based in London, interdisciplinary artist Larissa Sansour creates works that examine the collective memory and trauma of the Palestinian people through allegorical and experimental science fiction films.

Thank You! Good Night!
Please join us on Saturday, December 14 as we celebrate our Fieldhouse Residency with 6 action-packed hours for 6 years. We’ll be screening work, telling stories, playing music and YES, from 3 to 4 pm, THE GARY SING: an open mic/Karaoke session to celebrate our most honored and beloved Fieldhouse community member – aka the Mayor of South Vancouver – Gary Singh!

LA VACAcicleta DECEMBER screening: CARGO BIKE ADVENTURES
Join us for our monthly screening at Plaza del Valle!