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Does Venice reminds of a particular song? Or inspire you to write an original ode to the beachfront neighborhood? Submit a song for a chance to be included in our Venice Mixtape and win a $30 Amoeba gift certificate!
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News and stories on the shifting culture of our neighborhoods: Eastside vs Westside, the debate continues & more.
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Here's how you can use the Highland Park Field Guides to plan a day trip around this wonderful historic neighborhood.
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The Los Angeles Urban Rangers led crowds of nighttime explorers along the Los Angeles River. Our video documents their reactions and hopes for more nature in L.A.
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Congratulations to Highland Park Mixtape contest winners! Check out which songs made the cut and view our songbook for the project.
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles has been a work in progress since its inception, and plans for its growth include extending the story from the 1950s into the 1990s.
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The value of the mural is evident through the eyes of the growingly diverse local community. Neighbors have a personal connection to a particular panel's story or have grown up with it, learning and sharing the lessons the mural has to offer.
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Today, young artists inspired by SPARC and other pioneering muralists are continuing the legacy of muralism in Los Angeles with new avenues of approach.
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More than 25 years later, Judith Baca and SPARC returned to the Great Wall, to restore its luster after years of fading in the summer and beaten by the waters of the Tujunga Wash.
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With over 400 employed youths, and in collaboration with scholars, muralists, and historians, the Great Wall of Los Angeles would be built over the course of 5 summers beginning in 1976.
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural was conceived of in 1974 as a means to revitalize the Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel. What would unfold, would be more than Judith F. Baca ever imagined.
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News and notes on the shifting culture of our neighborhoods.
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Meet the people of Highland Park that make up the world of Departures. See their unique perspectives on the neighborhood through their stories, commentary, and historical tidbits.
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Neighborhood Notes: Film shoot transforms Figueroa St. & More
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Posted Neighborhood Notes: L.A.'s Entrepreneurial Latino Families Share Their Stories & More
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Takashi Hoshizaki and his family were interned at Heart Mountain concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There he was drafted for the U.S. Army, he refused was imprisoned for three years.
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Text excerpts, photos, and an audio narrative of Stanley Hayami's diary recorded during his time as a youth in the Heart Mountain internment camp in 1944.
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Text excerpts, photos, and an audio narrative of Takashi Hoshizaki's diary recorded during his time as a youth in the Heart Mountain internment camp in 1944.
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Stanley Kunio Hayami and his family were forcibly removed from their San Gabriel home and incarcerated at Heart Mountain concentration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Departures has been awarded an Arroyo Verde Award by the Arroyo Seco Foundation for our contribution to enhance and preserve the history and culture of the Arroyo Seco.
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Enter our "Highland Park Mixtape Contest." Send us the name of a song (with URL from YouTube, if it exists) that reminds you of Highland Park, or even better, an original song for a chance to win a copy of Artichoke's "Historic Highland Park" album, or the grand prize-- a $50 gift certificate to Wombelton Records in Highland Park.
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Enter our "Highland Park Mixtape Contest." Send us the name of a song (with URL from YouTube, if it exists) that reminds you of Highland Park, or even better, an original song for a chance to win a copy of Artichoke's "Historic Highland Park" album, or the grand prize-- a $50 gift certificate to Wombelton Records in Highland Park.
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These panoramas allow us to immerse ourselves into the lives and stories of the Occupy protesters, without the need to hear a single voice.
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En Plein Air in El Segundo is an outdoor "draw-in" taking place on the streets of El Segundo near the war contractor by the ocean, Northrop Grumman. Organized by artists Hillary Mushkin and Robby Herbst, the event invites the public...
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En Plein Air in El Segundo is an outdoor "draw-in" taking place on the streets of El Segundo on December 10th.
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When architectural historian Robert Winter coined the term "Arroyo Culture," he was referring a bohemian cultural explosion that had occurred Highland Park and Garvanza in the early 20th Century. Yet the same conditions that allowed the area to emerge as one of the most important cultural centers of the city exist in the region today, including a celebration of nature, community and culture, an a strong affirmation of multiculturalism.
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The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art is an initiative that aims to reconsider the tradition of public art through a collaboration between artists, sign painters, and business owners. Originated in Ecuador by artist and anthropologist X. Andrade, the project examines how the fine art tradition intersects with the tradition of commercial hand-painted signs.
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Outpost for Contemporary Art is part of the burgeoning scene of galleries and artist-run spaces popping up throughout Northeast Los Angeles. Founded by Julie Deemer in 2004, this cultural outpost produces cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinary projects that blur the boundaries between art, social practice, and public life.
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Family owned and operated for over 100 years, Galco's Soda Pop Stop sets the standard for iconoclastic mom & pop shops everywhere. The store and its owner John Nese have become a symbol of longevity and success for both Highland Park and small business owners throughout Northeast L.A.
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The Flying Pigeon speciality bike shop has established Highland Park as a central locale for advocacy, education, and overall two-wheeled sophistication in the greater Los Angeles bicycle community.
Recent Actions from Departures
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We agree, it is our understanding that Hahamog'na was the village of Tongva Indians at the head of the Arroyo Seco which we describe more fully in the following page: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/highland-park/the-highlands/hahamogna.html We also interviewed Chief Red Blood Anthony Morales and...
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Ye Rustin Inn in Los Feliz has great wings....
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Thank you Adal for your suggestion! There are hidden histories, such as this one, that we are investigating through our research and adding to our narrative as we delve into this installment....
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Yes you can Carolyn! We're extending the contest so if you click the "Submit Your Map" link above and download the form, we would love to see YOUR L.A. Details for submitting can be found in the "Learn More About...
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Yes Joe interviewed Departures a while back and had us a draw our own map. We have invited him to write a few words about his project for KCET Departures and (we hope) will be available soon....
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This is awesome - which student produced this? Departures want's more!...
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Hi Mason - have you decided if you are going to keep the shop or not? If the answer is no, then, where are all those objects, memories and artifacts going to go? We would like to do something with...
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For those reading this exchange, as part of the Chinatown series we also had the chance to interview artist and curator Steve Wong who still owns Mason's Antique Shop. In his interview Wong speaks about the dangers of gentrification and...
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Hi Mason, The coincidence of publishing this article and the circumstances that you and your family business are going through are completely uncanny. Although sad, it illustrates precisely what we where trying to surface in our article. What is the...
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We take all your comments and points of view with deep respect and propose discussing the issue with the people at Empress Pavilion; cultural practice or not, I think all your points are loud and clear and we will look...
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Does Venice reminds of a particular song? Or inspire you to write an original ode to the beachfront neighborhood? Submit a song for a chance to be included in our Venice Mixtape and win a $30 Amoeba gift certificate!
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News and stories on the shifting culture of our neighborhoods: Eastside vs Westside, the debate continues & more.
-
Here's how you can use the Highland Park Field Guides to plan a day trip around this wonderful historic neighborhood.
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The Los Angeles Urban Rangers led crowds of nighttime explorers along the Los Angeles River. Our video documents their reactions and hopes for more nature in L.A.
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Congratulations to Highland Park Mixtape contest winners! Check out which songs made the cut and view our songbook for the project.
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles has been a work in progress since its inception, and plans for its growth include extending the story from the 1950s into the 1990s.
-
The value of the mural is evident through the eyes of the growingly diverse local community. Neighbors have a personal connection to a particular panel's story or have grown up with it, learning and sharing the lessons the mural has to offer.
-
Today, young artists inspired by SPARC and other pioneering muralists are continuing the legacy of muralism in Los Angeles with new avenues of approach.
-
More than 25 years later, Judith Baca and SPARC returned to the Great Wall, to restore its luster after years of fading in the summer and beaten by the waters of the Tujunga Wash.
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With over 400 employed youths, and in collaboration with scholars, muralists, and historians, the Great Wall of Los Angeles would be built over the course of 5 summers beginning in 1976.
