Two remaining staffers—Nancy Araki and Linda Mabalot altered the power dynamics of VC; they took it from a male- dominated organization, typical of many community-based organizations born during the transformative 1960s and 1970s, to an organization run and managed by women arts administrators, filmmakers, and advocates.
Read MoreOur growing collective collection of personal stories, oral histories, and documentary footage capture the necessity of Little Tokyo’s First Street North as a site of cultural, familial, and political importance. They detail how the diverse, multicultural communities represented in the area lived their lives amidst a backdrop of change and attempted redevelopment, and how their daily activities manifested concerning these attempts.
Read MoreVisual Communications’ Historical “Cubes Exhibit” Restored And Debuts As Online Exhibit.
Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian American media arts organization, today announced the completion of restoration work of its inaugural production, AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS. A mobile photographic exhibit first created as a commission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the “Cubes Exhibit,” as the photographic display is affectionately known, represented one of the first instances that the story of Japanese American relocation and confinement during World War II was made widely known to the public.
Read MoreIntersections and convergences are effective ways for us to safely connect with each other. But we also need to be brave and welcome collisions. It’s easy to coalesce as an Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community when we’re going against hate and white supremacy. However, the required work needed for us to build collective power is to confront issues that divide us. From across the dinner table to discuss why Black Lives Matter with our families, to acknowledging Asian settler colonialism in Oceania, these power structures are replicated and represented in media. Most often, our always-present Indigenous interconnections are made invisible.
Read MoreAfter a year and a half of virtual presentations, we brought back the 37th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications, to in-person theatres and celebrated the works of seasoned and emerging artists from September 23 to October 2, 2021. The largest Festival of its kind in Southern California and an Academy Award® qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards, LAAPFF was a 10-day Festival that recognized the works of more than 140 artists, 19 countries, and 34 languages.
Read MoreWe understand that this Festival presentation was not what our artists had imagined when they began creating their projects, with a dream to openly celebrate their films with our communities. To create the Festival’s in-person moments to connect and converge, we are highly focused on protocols and procedures to keep us all safe. We ask you to be mindful and protective of each other. Let us be graceful to one another.
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