From Daniel Tures, Adult Librarian at Edendale Library:

Join us on Wednesday, May 4th at 6 p.m. on Zoom for a special Edendale film discussion co-presented by our longtime neighbor and BFF, the Echo Park Film Center!  Since 2002 they have been a crucial part of the city’s cultural scene, tirelessly supporting underground cinema, community screenings and film education.  Although their storefront theater and archive around the corner from us on Alvarado recently closed after 20 amazing years, the EPFC mission lives on with screenings and workshops all over Los Angeles and beyond.

We’ll be discussing a film chosen by Lisa and Paolo from the Echo Park Film Center that honors the great nation of Ukraine — Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1930 masterpiece Earth.  This impressionistic silent film follows a group of poor farmers on a collective who come into conflict with wealthier ‘kulak’ landowners.  The mantle of leadership is passed to Vasili when his grandfather dies, and he organizes the farmers to buy a tractor, a triumph that soon turns to tragedy.  Despite all tribulations the farmers press on, sustained by their deep connection to the land.

Here is the Zoom link to attend –

https://lapl.zoom.us/j/86166628128?pwd=V3NEdjdCNGVkY1ZnWnM1MXRKRlJ6Zz09

Meeting ID: 861 6662 8128

Passcode: 383096

To watch Earth on Kanopy, use your Los Angeles Public Library card (or any other library system or school that you’re a member of that offers Kanopy).  You can walk into any of our 75 LAPL branches and sign up for a card immediately, or sign up for an e-card at lapl.org and access e-resources including Kanopy from home.  Use your library card number to create a Kanopy account, which allows you to log in and stream 9 movies a month from their incredible online collection for free.  Watch the film on your own on Kanopy before we meet, and then join us at 6 p.m. on Wednesday May 4th to discuss it.

Verse meets visuals in motion at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) in April. Cadence Video Poetry Festival, presented by Northwest Film Forum, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and artist Râna San, is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. This year’s festival takes place in-person April 21–24 and online April 21 – May 1.

Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.

EPFC is delighted to partner with Cadence for the second year in a row with Haiku You, a free all-ages online film/poetry workshop. Sign up here! http://www.archive.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/haiku-you-an-all-ages-film-poetry-workshop-april-edition/

Tune in on Tuesday, March 15, at 8 pm for for All Ball Radio featuring tasty tunes and topical talk from Beaux Mingus and DJ Wilvis. Optical Track is EPFC’s weekly radio show on dublab.com. Can’t join us live? Optical Track is archived for your listening pleasure anytime at https://www.dublab.com/shows/optical-track

Radio Show (Online via dublab.com): OPTICAL TRACK
Tuesday, March 8
8 pm – 10 pm
Join us on dublab.com as we celebrate International Women’s Day with a sonic smorgasbord of tasty tunes and inspiring chat. Hour 1: AIR on the Air features a chat with Shar Starks aka DJ Smoke Lotus all about her amazing film Imma Hustle Girl: The Heart of the West. Hour 2 we’ve got the premiere of The Grrrlworld Tapes with DJ Minnie. More info here: https://www.dublab.com/shows/optical-track

Tune in on Tuesday, November 16, at 8 pm for for All Ball Radio featuring tasty tunes and topical talk from Beaux Mingus and DJ Wilvis. Optical Track is EPFC’s weekly radio show on dublab.com. Can’t join us live? Optical Track is archived for your listening pleasure anytime at https://www.dublab.com/shows/optical-track