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Category Archives: community arts
Echo Park Film Center at 10 and Weegee at MOCA
On this week’s episode, we hang out with founders and fans of independent film gem, the Echo Park Film Center on the occasion of their 10th anniversary, and we review some lesser known and more campy … Continue reading
Air Check: voices from the Inglewood Oilfield
Hear in the City will spend then next few shows in the Baldwin Hills at the Inglewood Oilfield. This place is perched on the summit overlooking the past and the future. On one side, the oil discoveries that drew wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, community arts, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, local oil production, marginalize communities, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources, work
Tagged Baldwin Hills, BHC, David McNeill, Dexter Story, Inglewood Oilfield, kpfk.org, Ladera Little League, Newsdesk.org, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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Performance, protest, prayer in public space
In honor of our one-year anniversary on Hear in the City, we bring you a show about protest, performance, and prayer in the public space. We visit the Asco arts exhibition “The Elite of the Obscure” at … Continue reading
community gardens, cuban photography, and bicycle bells
On this week’s episode, we offer a mixed bag of art and culture happening around Los Angeles. Luis Sierra Campos visits a community garden in Highland Park that serves as a model for urban sustainability and food security in a … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, bicycling, community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, marginalize communities, music, photography, public health, public radio, Special Series, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized, urban environment, work
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eastside arts and 30 years of HIV/AIDS: 6/21/2011
Today we on Hear in the City, we visit two historic arts institutions on the east side of the Los Angeles River, and we sit in on a special session of The Infection Monologues, a theatrical celebration of life and love … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, City Government, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, gender, GLBTQ life, music, public radio, Uncategorized, West Hollywood
Tagged "Infection Monologues" "Vincent Price Museum" "ELAC" "East LA College" "Alex Garner" "Neighborhood Music School" "Summer Solstice" "Hear in the City" "Jesse Lerner" "Sara Harris" "Luis Sierra Campos"
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the place show: 6/07/2011
Hear in the City is back in the ether after a break. On this week’s show, we hear about two very different urban places that are well worth visiting. Listen to the audio archive here: A … Continue reading
Posted in community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, film, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources
Tagged Angeles National Forest, Anne Bray, Echo Park Film Center, Hear in the City, Holly Harper, KPFK, KPFK 90.7FM, L.A. Freewaves, Mapping The City Through Sound, MTA, Out The Window, Public Matters, San Gabriel Mountains, Sara Harris, Station Fire, Transit T.V., UCLA REMAP, Urban Space
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4/19/2011: holding council
On this installment of Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in one of L.A.’s oldest schoolhouses, Metropolitan High where student … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, censorship, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, Downtown, economy and equality, education, GLBTQ life, Hurricane Katrina, LAUSD, Little Tokyo, marginalize communities, MOCA, Special Series, street art, The HeArt Project, theater, Uncategorized
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3/22/2011: world water day and education in crisis
As part of our series on the crisis in public education, we hand part of this show our students who study art with The HeArt Project as a way to open-up personal and professional possibilities while struggling to graduate from high … Continue reading
Posted in 021: 3/22/2011: world water day and education in crisis, arts, film, and music, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, LAUSD, marginalize communities, pink slips, public radio, Special Series, sustainability, urban environment, water resources
Tagged Heal the Bay, Mayra Jimenez, Superintendent Dr. John Deasy, The HeArt Project
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01/03/2011: censorship and the arts
On this week’s Hear in the City, we take a look at censorship in the arts from the perspective of three exhibitions taking place in Los Angeles. Hear in the City airs every Monday at 2pm Pacific Standard Time on … Continue reading






