PLACE LB and LBCMA invites you to the inaugural PLACE LB Breezeway Gallery show, featuring the paintings, prints, and animation of artist Gina Marie Napolitan. Gina will be showcasing a collection of new and past paintings and relief prints. The evening will also include a special selection of her short films, culminating in an expanded cinema piece with live sound accompaniment by Beaux G Mingus.

Join us in an Herbal Tea Workshop at Cottonwood Farm. Learn about the different herbs we will use and their benefits. 

We will be holding a storytelling circle and look back on the past few months of creating and remembering. 

Come join us at the Fountain Community Gardens for a hands-on workshop where you can learn how to create beautiful cyanotype prints. This in-person event will teach you the process of using sunlight to develop unique blue and white prints. No prior experience is necessary - just bring your creativity and willingness to learn!

Join us for an afternoon of low-tech, eco-friendly photochemical magic! Learn how to make beautiful imprints of the natural world using basic film developing supplies, as well as flowers and plants from around the neighborhood. It may be messy, so bring an apron or an old shirt—we’ll provide all other supplies!

Learn about stereoscopic 3-D and shoot your own 16mm 3-D film using legendary Bolex cameras and vintage 3-D lenses from 1953. The workshop will include a history of 3-D cinema, camera operation, 3-D shooting techniques, hand-processing and 3-D projection.

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!

Two journeys through two very different landscapes; the Thames foreshore and the railway network of Germany. Two travellers who are searching but don’t know what they will find. They stay open and attentive to the landscapes they travel through and the objects they encounter, hoping that meaning and form will emerge in time.

Back by popular demand: an afternoon of ALL THINGS SUPER 8!!! Learn how to film, hand-process and project your very own cinematic wonder with new friends in Echo Park.

This is a film-editing Workshop with the intention of using footage lost in our camera rolls! Bring your own laptops/tablets, smart phones, and or files on a USB!

Caught in a dance, bees tell each other stories about the world around them. People equally claim their role in those stories, sometimes very close and intimate, sometimes distant and on an industrial scale. Nina de Vroome's thoughts also swarm as bees do: from the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the global economy, her essayistic nature documentary Globes charts the bond between humans and bees. As accomplished storytellers, they both give shape to lives under the sun.

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. 

It’s Beaux’s (co-founder of LBCMA) birthday, and he wants to share snacks, drinks and some of his favorite films with you! 16mm! Super 8! LaserDisc! BluRay! We got it all, so come hang with the big dogs! 

New to bike riding? Join us in this beginner ride around the neighborhood of Panorama City! We will go over safety and basic tips on how to ride as a group. We will loop back around to Casa Esperanza for a convivio.

Join us for a beautiful evening of poetry as we celebrate the work and friendship of our March 2025 Il Nido Artists In Residence, Dora Prieto and Dani Rodriguez.

An Echo Park Film Center tradition makes its way to the city of Long Beach, CA! It’s our cinematic free-for-all, daring you to share your film with the feisty EPFC/LBCMA audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, QT, Super 8, 8mm, 16mm. $5 suggested, but no one will be turned away! 

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 using cyanotypes!

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.