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.

For this special screening Velvet Penny is teaming up with Longbeach Media Arts Film club to share, 'Yudith' a music video created to portray the nonlinear path of healing and the pathways of self destruction that present themselves on the path to realizing the power of self love. During this screening Velvet Penny frontwoman, Marlena Martinez, will be accompanied by Director of Photography Haley Salcido-Gronski and Gaffer Isaiah Thomas. We will also see a short collection of films from the LBCMA Film Club.

Using the 16mm Bolex camera, we’ll learn about film history, camera mechanics and analogue cinematography techniques and then put our new knowledge into practice as we do some filming of our own and possibly even some hand processing!

Join us in our first community bike training! No skill level required!
Learn the Bike ABC's and other rad info on bikes!  

Join visiting artist Karel Doing, inventor and innovator of the phytography process, for an afternoon exploring this wondrous technique that leaves detailed chemical traces of plants directly on photographic emulsion.

Join visiting artist Karel Doing, inventor and innovator of the phytography process, for an evening of short films and an afternoon of image propagation. Free event!

What is cameraless animation you ask? It’s a super fun and liberating technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock using pens, paint, stickers, flowers, paper, plastic bags, glitter or whatever else your creative mind can conceive. So ditch the camera and start animating! All ages and experience levels are welcome!

Find us at Cottonwood Urban Farm every 3rd Saturday of every month! Our shop known as HeART Mart will be open for business and items will be available for purchase. Zines, prints, apothecary items and more. This month we will be having a surprise vendor selling a sweet treat! AND karaoke for those interested! 

For this month’s screening we will be sharing some films that speak on the resilience of our communities and the need to resist now! Open mic and zine-making workshop! 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Surrealist parlour games. And word games. Bring your best dada(ist) play.

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.

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!   

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.

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!

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.

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.