Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Free Screening of Four LA-Themed Documentaries

So, this is incredibly late notice, but I just found out today about this screening on Saturday. These are four films sponsored by the same organization (California Council for the Humanities) that is sponsoring the Master's project that Donia and I are working on . 

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The four films are: "The New Los Angeles", documenting the city's recent political and social history; "The Eastsiders", about the historic Central Avenue area before 1965; "Chicano Rock", Jon Wilkman's film tracing the history of rock n' roll and Latino identities in East L.A.; and "Chinatown Remembered: Los Angeles During the 1930s and 1940s", about the creation of the first planned Chinese American community in the U.S.

The Premiers

These films will be screened for the L.A. Archives Bazaar at the USC Davidson Conference Center (3415 South Figueroa Street at Jefferson Boulevard) on Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. I know this conflicts with the proposed Grad Student Mixer, but maybe we could go in the morning for part of it. 

Admission is free, but parking is $8 (of course).


Schedule:
"The New Los Angeles"
10:30-11:45 am
www.californiadreamseries.org/nla.htm

"The Eastenders"
12:30-1:30 pm
www.eighthandwall.org

"Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles"
2-3 pm
www.wilkman.com

"Chinatown Remembered: Los Angeles During the 1930s and 1940s"
3:30-4:30 pm
www.chssa.org

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Please let me know if you are interested in going. 

1 comment:

CSULB Visual Anthropology said...

fyi to anyone who wants to go this event. there is plenty of free street parking right off campus. and don't worry about the safety of your cars. i parked there for years and never had a break in. anything north of jefferson and west of figueroa is good and a short walk to the davidson center. on a saturday morning, you should be able to find parking there. if you get past west of hoover or north of 28th St, the walk is a little longer - but still doable.