Upcoming
Events
Make It +Take It
Greeting cards, stenciled t-shirts, felted animals, plant prints, collage, paintings, protest signs, phytograms, zines…you name it, (the collective) WE are making it and (the individual) YOU are taking home whatever you make! Put a bird on it! Supplies and snacks provided.
Long beach community media arts at feature fest
Long Beach Community Media Arts and other members of the Echo Park Film Center Collective will have a booth setup at this beautiful independent film festival to help spread the word about community-run arts & media education and resources.
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: A Free BILINGUAL Workshop For Seniors and Elders
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!
DIGITAL DE-CLUTTER: FALL CLEAN UP
A Personal Archive Editing Workshop! Join us for a day of video collaging images and videos you've collected on your phone for who knows how long?? We share basic editing tips and tutorial while also clearing up our phone storage!
FIELDHOUSE FABRICATIONS: Third sunday open STUDIO
Join us for an all-in Open Studio Make-A-Thon!
ECO-FRIENDLY FILM PROCESSING WORKSHOP
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.
INTRO TO COLOR GRADING
Looking to brush up your color grading skills? Curious about the color timing process but been too intimidated to try? Whether you color your own shorts and want to learn how to work alongside directors and editors or if you’ve never touched color grading at all this course has something for everyone!
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!
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: PLACE LB FUNDRAISER RUMMAGE SALE
Come buy some cool s*** and help us pay the rent! Art supplies, film/video equipment, musical equipment, clothing, housewares, fun junk and more!!!
Found footage Fiesta: a 2-day workshop
Make your own experimental movie without using a camera! We’ve got piles of vintage “found footage” in a variety of formats for you to cut, colour, soak, scratch, splice, and project!
LA VACAcicleta November screening
Join us for our monthly screening at Plaza del Valle!
Finis Terrae: Experimenting (Film) For Writing - ONLINE VIA ZOOM
ONLINE WORKSHOP VIA ZOOM with ANDREA MÁRQUEZ! Whether you’re a native Spanish speaker looking to find the right words to express that idea you have in mind, or someone who’s learning Spanish as a foreign language and wants to experiment with writing, this workshop is for you!
FIELDHOUSE FABRICATIONS: FRAGMENTS
A weekly crafternoon with a focus on bookmaking and paper arts, Fieldhouse Fabrications is a new series that invites artists and emerging artists of all ages, abilities and interests to come together and make, create, learn, do, meet and share.
Open Lab: Learning Series
11/05 : Learn to Load a 16mm Bolex
11/12: Learn the Basics of Super 8
11/19: Learn to load Super 8 & 16mm Projectors
11/26: Learn to Load 35mm & 120mm Developing Tanks
Free drop-in, but we love donations!!
Where Olive Trees Weep
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice
KNOW YOUR GEAR
Explore a wondrous array of cameras, projectors, and other image-making gizmos from the EPFC North equipment closet. Learn how to test, maintain, operate, and store these magnificent machines
ECO-FRIENDLY FILM PHOTOGRAPHY at pico union library (Copy)
Join Echo Park Film Collective for an introductory workshop on 35mm film photography and hand processing with eco-friendly chemicals. FREE EVENT!
Intro to 16mm Filmmaking and Eco-Processing
A collaborative, convivial introduction to 16mm cinematography and eco-processing. Participants will learn how to film with a classic Bolex camera and make their own magical organic developers with coffee and local plants.
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.
Thank You For Your Questions: Analog Films by Polina Z and Her Mother
Join us for a stimulating evening of new films, old films, questions, answers, and maybe even some drawing when Polina Zaslavskaia shares analog discoveries made during her stay at Il Nido, the EPFC Collective Artist Residency space in Echo Park.
SUNCHEMIST PRESENTS: The Art of Sampling - Beat of the Drumz
Learn the fundamentals of sampling drums, creating loops, and basic variations in this hands-on workshop.
AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman
Join us in Somos Familia Valle space in Sun Valley for a screening of Screening Aids Diva: the Legend of Connie Norman!
SCARY MOVIES: A 16MM FILM WORKSHOP
Come by for this FREE and workshop where we will learn to use SPECIAL EFFECTS with the BOLEX camera and film a 100’ of film together!!
INTRODUCTION TO SURREALIST SCREENWRITING WITH JESSIE WRAY GOODMAN
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.
DICHOS Y RECUERDOS: Papel Picado y Mas
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.
Esta semana exploramos Alebrijes, cempacutchitl de papel, y papel picado.
FIELDHOUSE FABRICATIONS: Third sunday open STUDIO
Join us for an all-in Open Studio Make-A-Thon!
THE RADICAL SEWIST WORKSHOP
Through teaching, Radical Sewist envisions a sewing community for BIPOC, queer, and trans people.
Eco-Friendly Film Processing Workshop
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.
The Great Pumpkin
EPFC North will provide the PUMPKINS, CARVING TOOLS and the PEANUTS CLASSIC, and you bring the LOVE and CREATIVE IDEAS!!!
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!