Departures is KCET's hyper-local web documentary, community engagement tool and digital literacy program about the cultural history of Los Angeles' neighborhoods.
Production Notes
Departures was awarded the prestigious Japan Foundation President's Prize from the Japan Prize for an excellent work that encourages mutual understanding among nations and races or contributes to cultural exchange.
See photos from the Community Picnic celebrating the restoration of The Great Wall of Los Angeles.
Watch a slideshow of behind the scenes of Departures at the L.A. River Ramble.
Join the Los Angeles Urban Rangers at the L.A. River Ramble this Thursday, August 4th. The Departures team will be conducting interviews with the hikers as they explore one of America's most famous forgotten rivers.
KCET's own Juan Devis writes on the National Endowment for the Arts blog about the role of the critic and how Departures and the Full Dollar Project aims to provide a platform for community engagement and participation.
Los Angeles can claim a unique place in the culinary world in which a sense of deep social history can be felt from the sampling of its food culture. We take a look at how food played an important role in shaping Chinatown.
Here's a sneak peek of the upcoming Departures Highland Park installment, cluing you in to the themes, people, places, and ideas that we'll explore in our narrative. Find out what's in store for Highland Park.
In preparation for the upcoming Highland Park and the Arroyo Seco installment of Departures, we asked the community to contribute what they thought was culturally or historically significant to the area. The following highlights just a few of the points of interest and personal anecdotes submitted.
Here are 5 of our favorite sightseeing spots along the L.A. River.
Here are 9 of our favorite parks along the L.A. River, taken from the Parks section of our Field Guides.
With the launch of KCET Departures' Field Guides, one can easily find an activity to take part in: biking, walking, birdwatching, fishing, horse riding, sightseeing, and family friendly activities and parks.
KCET's news program Socal Connected explores why the river is the way it is.
The Gabrieliños bathed and fished in it; Mexicans built an aqueduct from it; gringos grazed their cattle on it; artists perform and intervene on it; council members played in it; fly fishing aficionados pull from it; the homeless find free,...
For Juan Devis, producer of KCET's Departures, CicLAvia is a remix of his younger days of growing up in Bogotá.
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Video by KCET Departures student producers "This is Compton. No Dre, no Cube, no guns, no gangsters. It doesn't fit the story we all know," said host Guy Raz of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered,...
Funders and Partners
Support for the Departures is provided through these funders as well as local community partners and viewers like you.
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departures@kcet.org
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