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Meet a VC Intern: Tommy Tang
Meet Tommy Tang, our 2020-2021 LACAC Marketing & Social Media Intern! Learn more about his experience working remotely with VC during the pandemic.
Meet a VC Intern: Serena Rodholm
Meet Serena Rodholm, our 2020-2021 UCLA Archives Intern! Learn more about her experience working remotely with VC and how she balances student & intern life during the pandemic.
Visual Communications to Receive Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Visual Communications has been approved for a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support our annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. We look forward to being able to continue our work with the Festival.
Corky Lee: Undisputed, Unofficial, Unforgettable
Corky Lee was a New York City photographer and activist who documented Chinatown and Asian Pacific American communities. He passed at the age of 73 after battling COVID-19. In this article, our Archives & Distribution Manager Abraham Ferrer recounts his 30+ year long friendship with Corky.
Visual Communications Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding
Visual Communications is proud to announce that we have received a prestigious community-based archives grant from New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will enable VC to complete “Making Memories Matter Again,” a years-long process to digitize, preserve, and activate the “born-on-film” component of its Asian Pacific American Photographic Archive.
Join us at Suite VC during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival!
Join us at Suite VC during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Here is a starting point for media-based conversations that can bridge understanding between communities and different allies. By amplifying storytellers and centering their friendships and experiences, we hope to align diverse perspectives to build a better world for all of us.
Meet a VC Intern: Jennifer Payan
Meet Jennifer Payan, our 2020 LACAC Archives Intern! Learn more about her experience working remotely with VC and how she balances student & intern life during the pandemic.
Meet a VC Intern: Jocelyn Song
Meet Jocelyn Song, our 2020 Getty Multicultural Programs Intern! Learn more about her experience working remotely with VC and how she balances student & intern life during the pandemic.
Visual Communications a Recipient of LACAC CARES Act Funds
Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture) CARES Act fund, awarded to 337 arts nonprofits suffering from COVID-19 business interruption and closures through its LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund.
VC Connect #20: The Stories Behind the Picture
In anticipation of Visual Communications’ 50th anniversary celebration, we are pleased to bring back a series of documentaries built around the vast holdings of the VC Archives, compiled, lensed, and edited by VC co-founders Duane Kubo and Eddie Wong. Accompanied by revealing interviews with many of the subjects who were captured in their younger days by VC founders and core staffers, these short films provide a glimpse into the spirit and vitality of the burgeoning Asian American Movement in all its forms. Join us for a special Monday Nite VC conversation on Monday, November 16, 2020 at 5pm PT featuring special guests as they discuss the VC Archives and its ongoing legacy.
Highlights of the 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
In our continued work to create spaces for expression, engagement, and empowerment, we proudly kicked off the 36th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented online from September 24 to October 31, 2020, reflecting a lineup that centered conversations that are most critical and compelling at this time. Here are some of the highlights of our Festival.
Join us for a virtual VC Archives "Tagging Party"!
Sign up for one of Visual Communications’ “tagging parties" to help us add historical info to images in our VC Archives! If you have knowledge of some (or even many) of the people, places, and/or events that took place over VC's nearly 50-year history, we need your help! All sessions will take place via Zoom.
ART4FSN: What Can Us Artists Do?
As we count down to Election 2020, join Visual Communications and the Sustainable Little Tokyo/Arts Action Committee on Tuesday, October 27 at 5pm PT for a lively conversation on how community artists can use their talents to engage their constituents.
VC Connect #19: Which Way, Little Tokyo?
Post-WWII community “re-development” initiatives have created waves of disruption, casting the vitality of Los Angeles Little Tokyo in doubt. In this program curated in cooperation with the Little Tokyo Community Impact Fund and featuring many highlights from our Digital Histories production program for older adults, we cast an observant eye on our community-builders and institutions that no longer exist, and hold out hope for a brighter future. Join us on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 4pm PT for a Monday Nite VC conversation about measures being undertaken by stakeholders to advocate for long-term solutions to protect the character and legacy of Little Tokyo.
VC Connect #18: Lessons Learned from GRASSROOTS RISING
We’re excited to bring back a special Monday Nite VC presentation featuring GRASSROOTS RISING, a documentary produced by Visual Communications and directed by Robert C. Winn. Join us on Monday, September 7, 2020 at 11am PT for a FREE daytime webinar as we chat with director Robert C. Winn and special guests whose work in various labor fronts are as vital today as they were when GRASSROOTS RISING was first screened in 2005. In the face of perhaps the most consequential Presidential election in over a generation, the lessons learned from the various organizing actions depicted in the film are sure to resonate strongly today.
LAAPFF 2020 Ticket Packages are Now on Sale!
Ticket packages for the 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival are now on sale! Choose from various ticket packages that will save you a minimum of 20% on all your tickets!
VC Connect #17: Random Silliness
The range of expression displayed throughout our Digital Histories and Armed With a Camera productions is so broad that we just had to create a showcase to allow all these stories to properly “breathe.” Enjoy this random grab bag of films that are sure to put a smile on your face.
VC Connect #16: Failure to Communicate
No matter how futile the effort may be, being heard and understood are two of the most important ingredients to mutual understanding. Unfortunately, not everyone gets the memo. Take a look at how conflicts escalate in this selection of Armed With a Camera films.
Visual Communications is a Community Collaborator for Outfest 2020
Visual Communications is pleased to partner with Outfest to promote the 2020 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, which runs online from August 20-30. Watch 160+ films, including 35 world premieres, filmmaker celebrity conversations, and live events for one low price on Outfest’s ultimate streaming destination.
VC Connect #15: Off the Grid
As this selection of Digital Histories films attest, there is a whole wide world outside of our little corner of the world — if only we’re brave enough and curious enough to venture out to experience it.