ICAN Film Festival (San Fernando) Over the Years

Every year great films are put together to document the stories and narratives of the communities of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. This year will be no different, but with a focus on the environment and issues of sustainability. Below are some Clips of ICAN 4 - 8 clips.


Great ICAN Festival Films Through the Years:

Sushi in San Fernando

Anti-Immigrant Laws


One Man Mariachi from La Bufadora in Ensenada

Air Jesse: boy pilot from Pacoima


Storytelling through Puppetry and Film


Multidimensional Mariachi Teenager

San Fernando Swapmeet


Water Issues and the Pacoima Dam


Saturday, August 2, 2008 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The San Fernando Education Technology Team, better know as SFETT, is an exceptional team of creative and talented individuals who continuously strive to engage and captivate students while providing them an avenue of expression through the use of digital media. SFETT started with one teacher, a handful of students and the desire to create positive change. Over the years, however, this small team based out of San Fernando, California has exceeded expectations and gone on to impact the whole world.

The Art of City Building through Civic Engagement

James is installing an interactive public project inviting participants to develop and envision public and civic amenities in a 3-dimensional model form. Participants will be provided with a medley of recycled materials and invited to create their ideal urban form on an oversized urban plot of streets, parcels and parks. This City-building installation allows participants to think of planning goals in physical terms, creating a platform for diverse voices. Playing and visualizing with the 3-dimensional forms engages children and adults of all ages. This model will be constantly changing as participants' work builds upon the contributions of everyone. Participants will be able to understand the city as not only a place but as a comprehensive urban art form. The purpose of City-building is to use interactive arts to help people think about urban design and planning. It shows participants the challenges and excitement of building through a multidisciplinary process involving everyone.






Saturday, August 16, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Location: Galeria Tufino Galeria Tufino

Santiago Lofts Arts District.

949 E. Santa Ana Blvd.

Santa Ana, CA. 92701

Across the street from the Santa Ana Train Station

Pan American Urbanism: From Caracas to East Los Angeles

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Reception at 6:30 p.m.

Panel discussion at 7:30 p.m.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased the second event in its new series, the Urban Future Initiative (UFI) Public Forum. PanAmerican Urbanism will feature Efrén Santana, a UFI fellow and architect with Urban Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela; and James Rojas, an urban planner and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Latino Urban Forum. Santana and Rojas will present a comparative study of the built environments of their respective cities, and discuss their evolving hypothesis of a PanAmerican Urbanism, which explores how the urban fabric of cities throughout the Americas has been shaped by Hispanic and Latino culture. Santana and Rojas will give special attention to the home as a manifestation of transnational common values, such the importance of extended family and the notion of the front yard as a public space.

Admission: $7, $6 students; Free for Friends of the Schindler House



Location: MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House

835 North Kings Road

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Public info: 323-651-1510

San Fernando iCAN 9 Festival de Cine

Saturday, August 2, 2008 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The San Fernando Education Technology Team, better know as SFETT, is an exceptional team of creative and talented individuals who continuously strive to engage and captivate students while providing them an avenue of expression through the use of digital media. SFETT started with one teacher, a handful of students and the desire to create positive change. Over the years, however, this small team based out of San Fernando, California has exceeded expectations and gone on to impact the whole world.



Location: 231 N. Maclay

San Fernando, CA 91340



Free admission visit www.sfett.com for more info.

iCAN 9 Trailer

MAK Fellows Blog

Different perspectives on the built environment get me goin'! Particularly by those researching the LA city-region. Visit the blog of an architect from Venezuela visiting L.A. via the MAK Institute's Urban Initiatives Fellowship.
Very little narration, just good design and images. James from LUF took him around town visiting significant places in Southeast Los Angeles, and other areas on the Eastside.
next week he"ll be rollin' with me to the San Fernando Valley.

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