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Student feel at ease recording their lives -- Youth Voices offers an opportunity to explore not just how to hit the record button but how to think creatively and critically as they build their neighborhood stories.
Robin Nixon, Patricia Provencio, and Frank del Castillo are all teachers at Yorkdale Elementary school.
You can often find Jeremy Kaplan or his wife Debbie sitting behind the desk at Read Books on Eagle Rock Boulevard.
Maps have not always been simple representations of reality but a tool used to conceptualize and organize space. This is true for the Youth Voices producers who focused on their personal experiences, memories and relationships to create their community...
Youth Voices student were given disposable film cameras to photograph the river.
With art, creativity and support, students are able to harness new opportunities and see a new future for themselves.
How do young people see Los Angeles? In this video, students from The HeArt Project share their point of view through a multi-media exhibit -- Mapping the Metropolis: Finding the Heart of Our City.
Misty Iwatsu has served as the executive director for the past eleven years of the North Figueroa Association, Highland Park's Business Improvement District founded in 2001.
How do we break the ice and begin to get to know one another while simultaneously developing a safe space to launch a multi-media community exploration?
Student producers explore the islands of the L.A. River
Baba Austin is the owner and tattooist at Vintage Tattoo Art Parlor on York Boulevard in Highland Park.