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.

The only rule is MAKE!

Learn how to make a hand-drawn looping animation using simple, affordable materials. Free and no experience required! This workshop will be a friendly space for queer and trans folks to learn some animation basics and create short, hand-drawn, looping animations.

Come join us for an evening of personal doc, essay and diary films curated by the LBCMA Film Club. We are also kicking off a new collaborative film project called “A Living Archive: Multi-Generational Stories from Long Beach” so we’ll be using this evening to introduce you to the filmmakers that will be taking part in the project, and screen some of their work. 

In addition to the night’s LB films, we are excited to screen new documentary films from Echo Park FIlm Center’s FREE Summer Intro to Documentary Filmmaking Workshop!

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!

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.

Come celebrate great Canadian dogs—past, present and future, real and imagined—with an outdoor afternoon “dog draw”! Pet portraits, doggy doodles, canine cartoons and MORE! Supplies and refreshments provided. Everyone welcome at this free event, including furry, finned and feathered friends who play well with others. And yes, JoJo The Cat will be there too!

Scavenger Loops! Come join Patchbay and EPFC North Collectives for a fun and free exploration of the form of THE LOOP.

What is a Scavenger Loop? A short (5-15 sec) story or sequence that cycles through beginning to end and is created from scavenged sources repurposing sound, film, images, or text. It can be anything YOU make it!

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!

Join us at @WildfiresBookshop on Friday, September 19 for an evening of poetry, film, drag, burlesque, and music to raise funds for Drug User Liberation Front’s (DULF) legal fees.

A new monthly early morning series that invites you to create a very short work of non-fiction fiction that can be read aloud in 60 seconds or less. Wake up and smell the stories!

LA VACAcicleta and Cinema Conciencia present "Trokas Duras" (2025) by Jazmin Garcia, along with short films by Sophia Garcia, Simri Hernandez, and Stephanie Escalante Leiva.

Come join us for another introduction to sewing machines workshop at Place LB!

The only rule is MAKE!

Come join us for an evening of personal doc, essay and diary films curated by the LBCMA Film Club. We are also kicking off a new collaborative film project called “A Living Archive: Multi-Generational Stories from Long Beach” so we’ll be using this evening to introduce you to the filmmakers that will be taking part in the project, so come say hi! See you there!  

Working Together Film Series presents a double feature of shorts -  Madeline Anderson's "I Am Somebody" (1970) and Shireen Seno's "To Pick a Flower" (2021) - two films that righteously and intimately (re)cognize legacies of exploited labor.

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.

What happens when you combine two of the most beautiful things in life together?? You get LOVE!!!! PURE LOVE!!!! BICYCLES + CINEMA = LOVE!!!

Let’s get loopy. Come learn how to make sounds go round and round using cassettes, ¼” tape, 16mm film and maybe even a vinyl record or two. Super fun, lowkey and all materials included. See you there!

Due to popular demand, the EPFC Collective is bringing back our FREE multi-week Documentary Filmmaking workshop for Community Members. Come to the first session with an idea for a short 5-minute film you hope to make in one month and this new group of friends, peers, community activists and lovers of cinema (under the guidance of the EPFC Collective) will help you make it happen!! This workshop will meet 4 times.

For those who don’t mind getting messy and want to make something out of paper, cardboard and glue 📰 (supplies provided)

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.

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.

Y’all are welcome to bring any projects you’re working on. This event centers fiber artists, but all artists can pull through (@funkentelekison brought their sampler last month and we jammed a bit 🤓🤟🏾) See all who feel called in a few weeks.

A fun and beginner friendly workshop all about Super 8 and small gauge filmmaking!

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!

Come join us for an evening of personal doc, essay and diary films curated by the LBCMA Film Club. We are also kicking off a new collaborative film project called “A Living Archive: Multi-Generational Stories from Long Beach” so we’ll be using this evening to introduce you to the filmmakers that will be taking part in the project, so come say hi! See you there!  

In this workshop you will learn how to create a poster with a socio-political theme, applying linocut and printing techniques with foam sheets, and how to prepare wheatpasting mix to stick it on surfaces such as walls. It is recommended to bring a sketch of no more than 4 x 6 to work from. No experience needed. Open to ages 15+.

3TONcinema 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.

For nearly 50 years, the Bay Area filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin has been an inspiring figure in contemporary media arts. His acerbic, densely-packed found footage films have traveled the globe, encouraging scores of nascent collage-essayists, culture jammers, and mockumentarians to action. Join us for this special benefit screening in support of the Craig Baldwin Cancer Recovery Relief Fund.

Come join us for another introduction to sewing machines workshop at Place LB! Learn how to thread and operate a domestic sewing machine, learn a few troubleshooting tricks, and sew your own reversible handkerchief! Sewing machines will be provided!