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# Freewaves

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- [Blog](https://freewaves.org/blog-2/)
- [Response 92](https://freewaves.org/response-92/) - It is an alien figure. there’s no lions in America.
- [Ain’t I A Womxn? A Genders Promenade on  Saturday, July 28, 2018, 8-11 pm, FREE](https://freewaves.org/aint-i-a-womxn-a-genders-promenade-on-saturday-july-28-2018-8-11-pm-free/) - at LA State Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring St., LA CA 90012, next to Chinatown Metro Stop #lafreewaves #dismiss #aintiawomxn On Saturday, July 28. 2018, Freewaves will present Ain’t I A Womxn?, a genders promenade, an event that brings together audiences, artists and activist organizations to stretch gender expressions in new directions. Featuring 20 independent
- [Dis...Miss Opening Reception takes place November 17th at LACE](https://freewaves.org/dis-miss-opening-reception-takes-place-november-17th-at-lace/) - Los Angeles, Calif. – On Thursday, Nov. 17, from 7-10 p.m., Freewaves will launch its most ambitious initiative to date, entitled Dis…Miss, with a reception at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. The reception will feature the work of 20 artists and artist collectives, together comprising a survey of the challenges facing feminism as its “fourth wave”
- [INTERNSHIP: Public engagement and Event Production for creative series concerning women and gender](https://freewaves.org/internship-public-engagement-and-event-production-for-creative-series-concerning-women-and-gender/) - This position is part-time and UNPAID but we will provide you with college credit, if applicable. Currently, Freewaves is seeking Intern participation to undertake a variety of tasks, all entailing a high degree of computer literacy and communications competency. All of the tasks will be part of Freewaves long time initiative to disseminate the new
- [Thank you, Pasadena](https://freewaves.org/thank-you-pasadena/) - Our 5-month residency at Pasadena City Hall has come to conclusion! Sound installation, video projections, drum circles, music performances, discussions series, all the lunches we spent together. Many thanks to those who were part of this in every way and helped make this possible. More photos are up on our Facebook Page. Stay tuned
- [The FINALE is here!](https://freewaves.org/the-finale-is-here/) - Join us on Friday, March 11th, and Saturday, March 12th, 7-10pm at Pasadena City Hall for the finale of “Lions, Tigers, And … ,” a five-part series consisting of an interactive sound installation, video projections, musical performances, all responding to the presence of cast-stone lions on the façade of the City Hall building. The lion
- [Response 91](https://freewaves.org/response-91/) - They are exotic because they are African, and they are also exotic because they are an extraordinary thing, they are beautiful.
- [Response 90](https://freewaves.org/response-90/) - They are by definition, one of the most exotic animals of all of society, because of their power.
- [Response 89](https://freewaves.org/response-89/) - Sound conveys a whole different message than visuals, than an image.
- [Response 88](https://freewaves.org/response-88/) - It’s enforcing to understand the power of sound.
- [One Last Drum Circle at Pasadena City Hall](https://freewaves.org/one-last-drum-circle-at-pasadena-city-hall/) - Don’t miss this chance to participate in one last DRUM ROAR at City Hall! Drummers, drum circle devotees, and family percussionists all of ages and skill levels, please join international recording artist Rasheed Ali for a healing drum circle at Pasadena City Hall on Saturday, February 13, 2015, at 1 p.m. This event is free
- [Afternoon lectures at City Hall: Kelema Lee Moses, Ph.D., on lions and meanings in architecture](https://freewaves.org/afternoon-lectures-at-city-hall-kelema-lee-moses-ph-d-on-lions-and-meanings-in-architecture/) - "Does it mean anything to render a lion full-bodied versus a lion decapitated or partially shown to us?" "Thinking about the role of the viewer, how can we complete the body of the lion? it’s not that we are all seeing the same lion with the same body, we were given the face and we
- [Response 87](https://freewaves.org/response-87/) - Architectural eclecticism that allows itself to incorporate lions to where the lions do make sense. They fit in to the architectural diversity of this site.
- [Response 86](https://freewaves.org/response-86/) - It’s this idea of creating a sublime nature within the city.
- [Response 85](https://freewaves.org/response-85/) - It is not that we are all seeing the same lion with the same body, we were given the face and we are meant to visualize the body ourselves.
- [Response 84](https://freewaves.org/response-84/) - It is the faces of the building, rather than showing the entire lion which is separate from the building.
- [Response 83](https://freewaves.org/response-83/) - In China it means protection, and it might have been a symbol of social class in the past.
- [Response 82](https://freewaves.org/response-82/) - Does it mean anything to render a lion full-bodied versus a lion decapitated or partially shown to us?
- [Response 81](https://freewaves.org/response-81/) - The lion in Budhism means accomplishment.
- [LUNCH WITH THE LIONS with Kelema Lee Moses, Architectural Historian](https://freewaves.org/lunch-with-the-lions-with-kelema-lee-moses-architectural-historian/) - Join us this Wednesday, January 27, as Kelema Lee Moses, Ph.D., Architectural Historian, leads a discussion on the lions’ significance at Pasadena City Hall. We will meet on the north side of the City Hall courtyard at 12pm sharp and begin a walking tour. For more info and to RSVP, visit the event page on
- [2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS for Lions, Tigers, And...](https://freewaves.org/2016-calendar-of-events-for-lions-tigers-and/) - We had a very busy year and we are welcoming 2016 with a full calendar of events for Lions, Tigers, And... at Pasadena City Hall. A full range of activities including drum circles, community lunches, guest speakers, video projections, and more. For more information- go to freewaves.org/lions and keep up with us on Facebook.com/Freewaves for
- [VIDEO FOOTAGE!](https://freewaves.org/video-footage/) - Check out this awesome video footage from the official launch of Lions, Tigers, And… If you missed it, don’t worry, the sound installation is up until March 2016 and we have plenty of events coming up. https://vimeo.com/147386338
- [A strong welcome to 2016- Drum Circle #2](https://freewaves.org/a-strong-welcome-to-2016-drum-circle-2/) - What a better way to kickstart 2016 than by joining us THIS SATURDAY for our second DRUM ROAR! Our first one was amazing and we would love to have you for more. This is the first of many ‪events for this year so don't miss it! Drummers, drum circle devotees, and family precussionists all of
- [Response 80](https://freewaves.org/response-80/) - Strategic, to attract a certain kind of person to the city. “If you want a certain stable life just come to Pasadena, just look at our City Hall.”
- [Response 79](https://freewaves.org/response-79/) - They’re here to imply that the city is watching you.
- [Response 78](https://freewaves.org/response-78/) - To imply venerability. Solid. Stable. Venerable.
- [Response 77](https://freewaves.org/response-77/) - They look like they are in service to the community or their leader, they look like they are somebody’s lions.
- [Response 76](https://freewaves.org/response-76/) - Sometimes things that are invisible are important.
- [Lions Photo Contest](https://freewaves.org/lions-photo-contest/) - Have you ever noticed the lions at Pasadena City Hall? Freewaves is hosting an Instagram photo contest! Word is that there are over 150 lions throughout the Pasadena City Hall building. We are on a scavenger hunt for the most obscure lion you can find. Show us one we haven’t seen before! Take a picture
- [Response 75](https://freewaves.org/response-75/) - They are awake, they still have souls when they’re statues sometimes.
- [Response 74](https://freewaves.org/response-74/) - Lions eat people and other animals, but they want to be healthy, they don’t want to eat more.
- [Response 73](https://freewaves.org/response-73/) - Protection against any evil spirits from the fathers of the city from conducting the business that is important to Pasadena.
- [Response 72](https://freewaves.org/response-72/) - In the architecture of the building, it’s all on display, but people don’t notice them. people are trained to move forward without taking notice of anything around them. It’s not an environmental thing, it’s a human problem.
- [Response 71](https://freewaves.org/response-71/) - Lions represent strength and they represent a headship, they are the head of their pride.
- [Response 70](https://freewaves.org/response-70/) - The felines, considering the size of their brains, I think they know more about life than we do.
- [Response 69](https://freewaves.org/response-69/) - They are a feline family. That’s what’s so interesting about cats, you see them asleep and they’re not. Sort of a cover up.
- [Response 68](https://freewaves.org/response-68/) - I wish people knew that things could be this pretty and be ecological too.
- [Response 67](https://freewaves.org/response-67/) - The architecture is a mix of different styles from different countries, just like in America we are all mixed.
- [Response 66](https://freewaves.org/response-66/) - They seem to be strangely out of place, just not based in any kind of reality, for me.
- [Response 65](https://freewaves.org/response-65/) - It looks like the lions are in service presenting some sort of harvest or abundance.
- [Response 64](https://freewaves.org/response-64/) - To me it’s ornamental, they have fruit and vegetables coming out of their mouths. Pacified, almost.
- [Response 63](https://freewaves.org/response-63/) - Noble by nature, but savage when they need to be.
- [Response 62](https://freewaves.org/response-62/) - City Hall is supposed to symbolize justice in a way, and the lion is a creature of nature. There is no flaw in nature, animals can kill each other and it’s ok. Survival, it’s natural, so that’s justice.
- [Response 61](https://freewaves.org/response-61/) - It’s protecting the ideals of the city.
- [Response 60](https://freewaves.org/response-60/) - For nature, environmental, not for the actual building.
- [Response 59](https://freewaves.org/response-59/) - They are treated exotically because of the details, the fruit.
- [Response 58](https://freewaves.org/response-58/) - They are put in important places.
- [Response 57](https://freewaves.org/response-57/) - They are images of lions, not whole lions, just their head.
- [Response 56](https://freewaves.org/response-56/) - "We are the bosses in Pasadena.”
- [Response 55](https://freewaves.org/response-55/) - Strength of a public institution or strength of community.
- [Our First Ever Drum Circle!](https://freewaves.org/our-first-ever-drum-circle/) - We had so much fun at our first ever drum circle last Saturday! Such a beautiful experience. We want to thank everybody that came by with their drums to spend the afternoon with us, also thanks to drummer Rasheed Ali for being such an excellent leader. More photos are up on our Facebook page and
- [Response 54](https://freewaves.org/response-54/) - Decoration, those fruits had to end up somewhere.
- [Response 53](https://freewaves.org/response-53/) - The city has really old bones.
- [Response 52](https://freewaves.org/response-52/) - Subtle definition of strength.
- [Response 51](https://freewaves.org/response-51/) - Like a "king's palace”
- [Response 50](https://freewaves.org/response-50/) - City employees should protect and serve the community.
- [Response 49](https://freewaves.org/response-49/) - Remind us that we need to do good things here.
- [Lunch with the Lions](https://freewaves.org/lunch-with-the-lions/) - We invite you to join us for Lunch with the Lions. We will explain our sound art installation, share the history of the building, guide a discussion among our fun simple survey questions and then record people's responses. The lunch gatherings will take place every Wednesday at noon starting November 18th, in the Pasadena City
- [Help us create a DRUM ROAR](https://freewaves.org/drum-roar/) - Next up on the Lions, Tigers, And... calendar! Drummers and Drum Circle Devotees, join international recording artiste Rasheed Ali for a healing drum circle at Pasadena City Hall on Saturday, November 14, 2015, at 1 pm. Drummers of all kinds wanted to gather people together and create a ROAR. A sound installation fills the outdoor
- [Why are there lions on City Hall?](https://freewaves.org/why-are-there-lions-on-city-hall/) - During our last event, we asked hundreds of people WHY ARE THERE LIONS on the Pasadena City Hall building. People said some great things that are now up and you can read them on freewaves.org/lions under the "Responses" section. Do you agree? Disagree? What are your thoughts? Share them with us and join the discussion
- [ArtNight Pasadena 2015](https://freewaves.org/artnight-pasadena-2015/) - We had a blast at the launch of Lions, Tigers, And... as part of ArtNight Pasadena. Photos by Side Street Projects are up on our Facebook page. Thank you so much to all those who were able to make it. If you didn't, don't worry, the sound installation is still up and running 24/7 and
- [Response 48](https://freewaves.org/response-48/) - Makes me think of a riddle, the snakes, the riddle of the snakes! in order to pass through between them, you need to know something.
- [Response 47](https://freewaves.org/response-47/) - What’s a greater animal than a lion? It’s on top of the food chain of dominance. Maybe it is supposed to intimidate.
- [Response 46](https://freewaves.org/response-46/) - Those things are just meant to ward off evil spirits and portray dominance.
- [Response 45](https://freewaves.org/response-45/) - They are weirdly familiar, I’ve see the same lions in other buildings before.
- [Response 44](https://freewaves.org/response-44/) - There is a legacy of colonialism, they weren’t lions in Europe but lions came to symbolize certain regal royalty, but lions are native to more than middle east and Africa, as well, there are Asian lions, there are lions in South America, but where there lions in Europe? I don’t even know. There’s this idea
- [Response 43](https://freewaves.org/response-43/) - I have been in this space a million times, I have only processed them as shields, I’ve never processed them as lions.
- [Response 42](https://freewaves.org/response-42/) - There are pictures of what most city halls are inspired by and it’s four different spots. there are animals in all of those. Maybe it’s lions.
- [Response 41](https://freewaves.org/response-41/) - Lion is the king of the jungle and city hall is the place where our leaders do their job.
- [Response 40](https://freewaves.org/response-40/) - They’re iconic, so in that regard, they don’t have a geography of place.
- [Response 39](https://freewaves.org/response-39/) - I don’t think of animals as exotic, they might be endangered, but I think of them as sainted spirits, and when I think of them that way, they are familiar.
- [Response 38](https://freewaves.org/response-38/) - It looks like they’re eating something, but it’s fruit, or vegetables, not animals. I’d say they are protective over aggressive, but somewhere in between, because they’re definitely devouring something.
- [Response 37](https://freewaves.org/response-37/) - The city is fearful of the future.
- [Response 36](https://freewaves.org/response-36/) - To bring awareness to all mass lion killings.
- [Response 35](https://freewaves.org/response-35/) - To bring together the feeling of wilderness in the middle of an urban.
- [Response 34](https://freewaves.org/response-34/) - As a nature form of art conversing with the structure of man.
- [Response 33](https://freewaves.org/response-33/) - Contrast between nature and construct of man.
- [Response 32](https://freewaves.org/response-32/) - To represent power, nobility, and two continents coming together.
- [Response 31](https://freewaves.org/response-31/) - It's architecture, there aren't many reasons necessarily.
- [Response 30](https://freewaves.org/response-30/) - Invokes to majesty and poverty of government, reminiscent of Florence renaissance.
- [Response 28](https://freewaves.org/response-28/) - Pasadena is the focal point of San Gabriel Valley, king of the jungle.
- [Response 27](https://freewaves.org/response-27/) - Inviting part of the pride in Pasadena, we watch over for one another.
- [Response 26](https://freewaves.org/response-26/) - A strong beast that can over power you and hurt you, if they want to. subconsciously.
- [Response 25](https://freewaves.org/response-25/) - Fortitude of royalty, of strength, upholding the crest of the city and placing it as a symbol. subtly.
- [Response 24](https://freewaves.org/response-24/) - Top of the food chain in dominance.
- [Response 23](https://freewaves.org/response-23/) - Implicit implication of government serving the interest, reminder of those working there and those coming in.
- [Response 22](https://freewaves.org/response-22/) - Superstition.
- [Response 21](https://freewaves.org/response-21/) - Halls of power, representation of the people that work there.
- [Response 20](https://freewaves.org/response-20/) - They are on many government buildings, affiliated with hierarchy. The highest before man.
- [Response 19](https://freewaves.org/response-19/) - The more you look, the harder it is to figure it out. They are there to hold up the fruit.
- [Response 18](https://freewaves.org/response-18/) - They don't have negative connotations until they eat your leg, but they don't eat a lot of humans.
- [Response 17](https://freewaves.org/response-17/) - Traditional sign of sovereignty and power. Trying to imitate the cowardly lion on Wizard of Oz.
- [Response 16](https://freewaves.org/response-16/) - Like gargoyles. The City of Pasadena wants to identify itself with something powerful and beautiful.
- [Response 15](https://freewaves.org/response-15/) - Somebody was a Leo! (Leos look out for other Leos)
- [Response 14](https://freewaves.org/response-14/) - In oriental culture, they are put in front of buildings as a symbol of protection.
- [Response 13](https://freewaves.org/response-13/) - They’re familiar but exotified by the environment.
- [Response 11](https://freewaves.org/response-11/) - They are part of the environment.
- [Response 10](https://freewaves.org/response-10/) - They were important at the time but contemporaneously they’ve become lost because of technology.
- [Response 09](https://freewaves.org/response-09/) - They are invisible until they bite your leg off.
- [Response 08](https://freewaves.org/response-08/) - They are desensitized on the building.
- [Response 06](https://freewaves.org/response-06/) - Capture a sense of freedom.
- [Response 07](https://freewaves.org/response-07/) - They are captively free, confined in roles but have oversight.
- [Response 05](https://freewaves.org/response-05/) - Protective of their own, aggressive to everything else.
- [We are so excited for Oct 9th and 10th!](https://freewaves.org/we-are-so-excited-for-oct-9th-and-10th/) - We stopped by Pasadena City Hall for a test run and it’s looking good! We can’t wait to see you at the preview October 9th during Art Night Pasadena, and the next day, October 10th for the big launch. In the mean time, here’s a teaser: Follow us on Twitter @LAFreewaves and also on
- [Response 04](https://freewaves.org/response-04-2/) - Safety within the sanctuary
- [First DRUM ROAR date added to the calendar. DON’T miss this one!](https://freewaves.org/lion-blog-post-02/) - Drummers and Drum Circle Devotees Join International Recording Artiste Rasheed Ali for a Healing Drum Circle at Pasadena City Hall on 3 Saturdays at 1 pm: the first is November 14, 2015. Drummers of all kinds wanted to gather people together. A sound installation fills the outdoor courtyard but seeks live accompaniment for the building’s
- [A Multimedia Artwork Questions the Lions on the City Hall](https://freewaves.org/lion-blog-post/) - Have you ever noticed the cast-stone lions on the Pasadena City Hall? Freewaves comes City Hall for a multimedia artwork called “Lions, Tigers, And … ,” a five-part series taking place over five months consisting of a sound installation, video projections, social media campaign, two musical performances, and several drum circles. Mark your calendars! We’ve
- [LA 2050 Grants Challenge](https://freewaves.org/la-2050-grants-challenge/) - One of our current projects, Out The Window, places video art in the midst of busy commuting traffic on all of LA Metro Buses for over 1 million people to see. Let’s create a place where artists, organizations, and communities can come together in collaboration and dialogue through a permanent platform showcasing video in public
- [Voting is now OPEN! Ready, set, go!](https://freewaves.org/voting-is-now-open-ready-set-go/) - WHAT IF artists, organizations, and commuters in Los Angeles could come together in collaboration and dialogue through a permanent platform for communication via video in public spaces? Freewaves is ready to change the bus riders' world by showcasing artists', nonprofits’ and students’ videos to the 1,000,000 daily riders, but only with your help. Change the
- [AD or ART?](https://freewaves.org/ad-or-art/) - Ad or Art by Lisa Marr Can you tell the difference between Ad or ART? WHAT IF we created a channel in public spaces that would bring videos by artists, organizations and students to people who are often served numbing media instead of relevant media? Freewaves is ready to change the bus riders' world by
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- [How can art change the world TODAY?](https://freewaves.org/how-can-art-change-the-world-today/) - Join us on Friday, October 10, at Side Street Projects Freewaves, Anne Bray and the attendees of ArtNight Pasadena will collaborate to present a new kind of interactive public work exploring current attitudes towards art and world events. Freewaves’ videos by the following artists will be looped throughout Side Street Projects’ walls, screens, fences, and
- [Somewhere Between Here and Now at Hookah Lounge on Nov 20, 2014](https://freewaves.org/somewhere-between-here-and-now/) - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE AND NOW Curated and introduced by Suzy M. Halajian A video screening & conversation Produced by Freewaves Thursday, November 20, 8-10 pm Hollywood Hookah Lounge 6512 Hollywood Boulevard, LA 90028, next to LACE As part of the Los Angeles / Islam Arts Initiative (LA/IAI) Free Event Freewaves presented Somewhere between here and
- [Relax Mobile Anxiety](https://freewaves.org/relax-mobile-anxiety/) - RELAX MOBILE ANXIETY Video Installation by Pascual Sisto as part of the Los Angeles Art Show At LAAS 2015, Volvo Cars of North America has collaborated with Freewaves to highlight the work of Pascual Sisto, an artist living in Los Angeles and representing the digital edge of contemporary art. Freewaves has repeatedly shown his videos,
- [Long Live LA 2015](https://freewaves.org/long-live-la-2015/) - Special viewing and short panel discussion Freewaves has commissioned a group of discerning artists to create short videos addressing mental health issues, addictions and fitness. Using a variety of styles, narratives, images and sound, the artists have produced a total of 30 original short videos called Long Live LA. Artists include: Kim Abeles and Ken
- [Freewaves Archive Launch Party at LA Weekly's Artopia](https://freewaves.org/civic-statues-unfrozen-for-one-hour-clothed-women-and-unarmed-men/) - Civic Statues Unfrozen for One Hour: Clothed Women and Unarmed Men Thursday, April 30th 2015, from 8 to 11 p.m. at The Container Yard in DTLA This event celebrates the launch of archive.freewaves.org, a publicly accessible online environment encouraging the making, sharing, and dialogue of new video art, featuring over 400 video art pieces from
- [The Freewaves Video Archive is up and running!](https://freewaves.org/the-freewaves-video-archive-is-up-and-running/) - As many of you know, our video archive has been redesigned with a whole new interface, featuring personalized accounts, user playlists, tutorials, and carefully selected playlists by our curatorial team. We want this to be a publicly accessible online environment encouraging the making, sharing, and dialogue of new video art, an articulation of digital public
- [Response 01](https://freewaves.org/response-01/) - That’s the place where they take care of everyone and everything.
- [Response 02](https://freewaves.org/response-02/) - Integrity.
- [Response 03](https://freewaves.org/response-03-2/) - Lions, Tigers... are millennia-old pitch models for power and authority fashioned out of religious figuration intended to exploit the animal instinct in humans for primal fear that, like the King of the Beasts, irrationally penetrates every sinew to create the conditions in which leaders subjugate instead of facilitate followers. Not unlike using scantily dressed women
- [Open Call :: Out the Window](https://freewaves.org/open-call-out-the-window/) - SHOW YOUR VIDEO SHORTS TO 1 MILLION L.A. BUS RIDERS Submission deadline for ROUND 3 is January 14, 2011 Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activists-storytellers' videos about health, environment, rights or anything else on your mind to show to I million riders per day on all 2000 Metro buses in L.A. County in 2013. On Transit
- [Press Release – OUT THE WINDOW](https://freewaves.org/press-release-out-the-window/) - Out the Window Freewaves, Public Matters, Echo Park Film Center and UCLA REMAP broadcast videos about Los Angeles on 2,200 buses Los Angeles, Calif. – Through short-form videos, presented across the entire Los Angeles County Metro bus system, Out the Window shares diverse perspectives on Los Angeles, as seen through the creative eyes of its
- [Open Call :: Dream + Act](https://freewaves.org/open-call-dream-act/) - Open Call by Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, The East LA Society of Film and Arts (TELA SOFA) and La Causa DREAM + ACT Film, videos, activism and information on immigration On April 30 and May 1, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, TELA SOFA and La Causa are collaborating to present Dream +
- [Call for Multicultural Interns](https://freewaves.org/call-for-multicultural-interns/) - FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2011 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: * Members of
- [DREAM + ACT   Film, videos and activism on immigration](https://freewaves.org/dream-act-film-videos-and-activism-on-immigration/) - Who has the right to study and work in the U.S.? When people contribute socially and economically to a society, are they not citizens? Is there a way for the politically disenfranchised to feasibly gain American citizenship? On April 30 at 7:30pm, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, La Causa and TELA SOFA (The
- [DREAMING + ACTING](https://freewaves.org/dreaming-acting/) - In case you missed it, here are some photos from Saturday's program at Self Help Graphics & Art, Dream + Act...
- [Bus screenings June 13-19 launch mobile community TV network](https://freewaves.org/bus-screenings-june-13-19-launch-mobile-community-tv-network/) - Short videos, presented across the entire Los Angeles County Metro bus system, will share diverse perspectives on Los Angeles, as seen through the creative eyes of its young people for its 4400 existing TV screens on public buses. WHAT 40 short videos by LA youth will be shown on all 2200 L.A. Metro buses
- [Kinoforum: media art in Brazil](https://freewaves.org/kinoforum-media-art-in-brazil/) - This is the first in a sporadic series of Freewaves dispatches intended to connect you with media arts resources around the world. Artists are doing some amazing inventive stuff out there....read on..... “Culture is the most democratic human tool able to create other possible worlds.” The use of video as a means of aesthetic expression
- [Out the Window bus tours, 6/18 & 6/19](https://freewaves.org/out-the-window-bus-tours-618-619/) - Watch video art on the bus as part of Freewaves' latest project, OUT THE WINDOW BUS TOUR 6/18: East LA meet up and ride Out The Window Bus Ride + Video Watching Meet Up Saturday, June 18 at 9:30am with Public Matters and East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy students MEET UP and take an
- [Artists' videos to infuse Transit TV on 2,000 LA Metro buses with art throughout October and November](https://freewaves.org/artists-videos-to-infuse-transit-tv-on-2000-la-metro-buses-with-art-throughout-october-and-november/) - Los Angeles, Calif. – Through short-form videos, presented across the Los Angeles County Metro bus Transit TV system, Out the Window shares artists’ diverse perspectives about/by/in Los Angeles. With a different video featured each day in October and November, the project links physical and virtual worlds through digital media offerings that coax viewers to explore
- [Two paid Getty internships this summer - please apply!](https://freewaves.org/two-paid-getty-internships-this-summer-please-apply/) - FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2012 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: Members of underrepresented
- [::Artbound 2:: Rorschach Revelations vs. Israeli Jewish White Male](https://freewaves.org/artbound-2-rorschach-revelations-vs-israeli-jewish-white-male/) - When we are presented with something new, we instantaneously judge with minimal information regardless of being wrong or right. Allowing our perception to be clouded by volley of information, we absorb what we can from art and strangers. The short art clips of Aaron Bourget’s Rorschach Revelations and Lior Bar’s Israeli Jewish White Male uses
- ["SEE CHANGE"](https://freewaves.org/see-change/) - Los Angeles, Calif. – CELEBRATE with Freewaves and the artists the completion of "SEE CHANGE," 2 groundbreaking video installations featuring 27 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, permanently accessible to the public. The reception, on Saturday, June 16, from 5 to 8 p.m. is
- [Is That Art In Your Pocket?](https://freewaves.org/is-that-art-in-your-pocket/) - Can art be everywhere? Freewaves' presents Out the Window UNcensored a new app of video art pieces now FREE for download on iPhones and iPads in collaboration with game designer, Happy Dojo. This app includes 16 radical video experiences about L.A., created by L.A.-based digital artists. Public but personal media, and viewable from anywhere, Out
- [iGallery: Art in Transit](https://freewaves.org/igallery-art-in-transit/) - While I know some people find art to be alienating, the intensely commercialized streetscape of Los Angeles can feel alienating to me. I wanted to find out if other L.A. pedestrians and public transit users felt the same way, and if putting art on the bus could be a force for de-alienation. In 2010, my
- [A series of discussions about Socially Engaged Art in L.A., Fall 2012](https://freewaves.org/a-series-of-discussions-about-socially-engaged-art-in-l-a-fall-2012/) - Say passé to the sculpture in the square; the leading edge of public art is changing. Art is passing from isolation, to intervention, to participation, to engagement, to integration. SOC(i)AL: Art + People is a free, public series of roundtable discussions and weekend events that explores socially engaged art in Southern California from East to
- [OPEN CALL for VIDEOS for LA BUSES due Jan 21](https://freewaves.org/open-call-for-videos-for-la-buses-due-jan-11/) - OPEN CALL for VIDEOS for LA BUSES due Jan 21 by freewaves on December 3rd, 2012 OUT THE WINDOW Freewaves is seeking 2-minute artists-activists-storytellers’ videos about health, environment, rights, or anything else on your mind to show to I million riders per day on all 2,000 Metro buses in L.A. County in 2013. On Transit
- [Freewaves Seeks Two Summer Interns](https://freewaves.org/freewaves-seeks-two-summer-interns/) - FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2013 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: Members of underrepresented
- [Check out the latest from Out The Window](https://freewaves.org/check-out-the-latest-from-out-the-window/) - Missed the latest Out the Window video on the bus? No worries. Check out all our Out the Window videos at out-the-window.org. Updated weekly, we bring to you the best up and coming video art from around the world shown to over a million bus riders.
- [Stay connected...](https://freewaves.org/stay-connected/) - Connect with Freewaves and the world of new media art. LIKE US at facebook.com/lafreewaves FOLLOW US @lafreewaves NEWS STORIES @ lafreewaves.tumblr.com INSTAGRAM @ instagram.com/lafreewaves SUBSCRIBE to our Official Youtube Channel: youtube.com/freewaves The art world is constantly changing. Keep up and keep art moving...
- [Video Art is far from dead. It's Evolving. Instagram with us...](https://freewaves.org/video-art-is-far-from-dead-its-evolving-instagram-with-us/) - With Instagram's new video feature, people with smart phones now have video artist tools at the palm of their hands. Long gone are the days of battery packs, VHS & film transfers, heavy duty lighting equipment, permits, and distribution companies. Long gone are the traditional methods used by Nam June Paik and Bill Viola. It's

## Pages

- [Home](https://freewaves.org/) - Freewaves is a Los Angeles public art organization making provocative, inclusive site-specific experiences that create community and challenge perceptions
- [Evergreen Landing Page - WIP](https://freewaves.org/evergreen-landing-page-wip/) - Freewaves brought artists and activists from around the world to make free public art across Los Angeles, challenging, connecting, and changing us. PUBLIC ACCESS TV ~ METRO BUS SCREENS ~ OUTDOOR PROJECTION ~ ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS ~ INTERACTIVE TV ~ CD ROMS ~ ARTISTS’ VIDEO GAMES ~ VIRTUAL RECITAL ~ WEBSITES ~ VIDEOPHONE INTERNATIONAL ~ VIDEO
- [Support/Donate](https://freewaves.org/support/) - Support us! Freewaves gets support from people like you and generous Government and Foundation Grants. If you’re able to and you want to help to, “keep art moving,” click the donate button below. Also, take a moment to check out who’s supported Freewaves. Donate today! Spread The Art. Join Our Community. Other Ways to Support Freewaves:
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- [TEST: Program Slider (Timeline)](https://freewaves.org/program-slider/) - Prevent! Restore! Reimagine! Belonging / Pertenecer A question as public art feMMMes A midsummer art happening We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. James Rabbit Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit. Howler A man might befriend a
- [DisMiss Main Slider](https://freewaves.org/main-slider/) - Next Event: ART AND ACTIVISM! December 11, 2016 at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Learn More
- [Mission](https://freewaves.org/mission/) - Our Mission LA Freewaves is a public art organization committed to the multicultural landscape of Los Angeles. We use visual art and performance to transform civic spaces into welcoming hubs of radical creativity that invite local communities to reflect, rethink, and re-engage with social issues as expressed through art. For 36 years, our immersive gatherings
- [Programs](https://freewaves.org/programs/) - Welcome to our history Freewaves is proud to have been making public art in Los Angeles since 1989. We’ve been to Compton, Santa Monica, Riverside, the Inland Empire, Chinatown, Koreatown, Pasadena, and more, all land that is originally and still the home of the Native First Peoples of this region. Every Freewaves manifestation is different.
- [Dis...Miss Gender? Book](https://freewaves.org/dismiss-gender-book/) - Dis…Miss Gender? Edited by Anne Bray. A bold mix of photographs and short essays in which artists, writers, and theorists investigate and celebrate the rapidly evolving world of gender. Buy now!
- [Press](https://freewaves.org/press/) - Press LA WEEKLY LA Freewaves presents Heal Hear Here at LA State Historic Park. A reparative afternoon of collective care in nature, offering healing art practices to begin to recover from years of isolation, fatigue, injustice, and hardship. With 30 artist groups selected by 30 organizations across music, processions, movement, sound, and workshops, the event
- [Belonging](https://freewaves.org/be/) - Do you feel you belong here in Santa Monica? How? When? Where? ¿Sientes que perteneces aquí en Santa Mónica? ¿Cómo? ¿Cuando? ¿Dónde? Answer Anonymously
- [Board of Directors](https://freewaves.org/board-of-directors/) - BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anne Bray Anne Bray has been working in the field of media arts since the mid ’70s as an administrator, artist and art teacher. With representatives of other communities, she founded the concept of Freewaves and has administered the program since inception. As the Executive Director, she has continued to see the
- [Contact](https://freewaves.org/contact/) - Contact Name Email Subject Message Δ
- [Credits](https://freewaves.org/credits/) - Credits Graphic Design & Creative Strategy: Carolina Ibarra-Mendoza (I.M., Carolina) Past Designers: David Grey and Marco Perez Execution: Steve Shoffner at fefifolios Archive Coding: Colten Seamans
- [Out The Window](https://freewaves.org/out-the-window/) - Freewaves commissioned and presented 60 two minute artists’ videos and 75 youth-made videos exploring specific locales throughout Los Angeles County. The videos were presented on 4,400 screens on 2,200 L.A. Metro buses with approximately 1,200,000 boardings per day. Each artist’s work was shown 16 times over the 16 daily hours of Metro Bus operation. In
- [Postcard Quilt](https://freewaves.org/dismissresponses/) - Below is the ever-growing Dis...Miss conversation quilt. Please add your voice to the conversation! Participate by either coming to one our events or via social media by tagging us in your post and/or using #dismiss
- [Freewaves Video Archive](https://freewaves.org/archive/) - Freewaves Video Archive an excellent way to share your interests with your community. Use our playlist interface to help you organize a screening party. Think YouTube but art’ed up! (…and without the cat videos) [hgr_button hgr_buttontext=”Go to the archive!” hgr_buttontextsize=”20″ hgr_buttonurl=”url:http%3A%2F%2Farchive.freewaves.org||” hgr_buttontextcolor=”#808080″ hgr_buttontexthovercolor=”#ffffff” hgr_buttoncolor=”” hgr_buttoncolorhover=”rgba(255,255,255,0.1)” hgr_buttonwidth=”100″ hgr_buttonwidthunits=”%” hgr_buttonheight=”60″ hgr_buttonheightunits=”px” hgr_buttonborderweight=”1″ hgr_buttonbodercolor=”” hgr_buttonbordercolorhover=”” hgr_buttonroundness=”4″ hgr_hasicon=”noicon” hgr_button_extraclass=””][vc_empty_space]
- [Organize a Screening](https://freewaves.org/archive/organize-a-screening/) - Organize a Screening Free Associations FREE ASSOCIATIONS is an excellent way to share your interests with your community. Use our playlist interface to help you organize a screening party. Think YouTube but art’ed up! (…and without the cat videos) Why should you do it? For POLITICAL ACTIVISTS… get inspired by artists who change the world

## Portfolio

- [Justice + Art Jam](https://freewaves.org/programs/justice/)
- [Belonging / Pertenecer](https://freewaves.org/programs/belonging/)
- [feMMMes](https://freewaves.org/programs/femmmes/)
- [Love and/or Fear x](https://freewaves.org/programs/loveandorfear/)
- [Aint I A Woman](https://freewaves.org/programs/aint-i-a-woman/)
- [The First Broadcasts](https://freewaves.org/programs/deep-dish-tv-network-1993-spring-schedule/)
- [Love and/or Fear](https://freewaves.org/programs/love-and-or-fear-performances-on-hollywood-bl/)
- [Somewhere Between Here and Now](https://freewaves.org/programs/somewhere-between-here-and-now-video-art-at-hookah-lounge-curated-by-suzy-halajian/)
- [Out The Window](https://freewaves.org/programs/out-the-window-2/)
- [Intersection](https://freewaves.org/programs/intersection-at-glow-festival/)
- [Uncensored](https://freewaves.org/programs/uncensored-app-of-video-art/)
- [Digi Days](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-libraries-high-schools/) - ugh
- [Live N.U.D.E. Artists](https://freewaves.org/programs/nude-event/)
- [Three Strikes](https://freewaves.org/programs/catalog-of-southern-california-youth-media-programs-booklet/)
- [Freewaves 1st Festival](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-freewaves-1st-celebration-of-independent-video/)
- [Civic Statues](https://freewaves.org/programs/civic-statues-unfrozen-for-one-hour/)
- [Second Life](https://freewaves.org/programs/second-life-video-art-show/)
- [Video on the Loose](https://freewaves.org/programs/video-on-the-loose-20th-anniversary-lacma-dvd-book/) - 2010 Video on the Loose , 20 th anniversary, LACMA, DVD, book
- [Hollywould](https://freewaves.org/programs/hollywould/)
- [Hotbed](https://freewaves.org/programs/hotbed-video-cultivation-beside-the-getty-gardens-booklet/)
- [Funrazor](https://freewaves.org/programs/funrazor-flyer/)
- [Too Much Freedom?](https://freewaves.org/programs/freewaves-10th-biennial-film-video-and-new-media-art-festival-too-much-freedom/)
- [Video Archive](https://freewaves.org/programs/video-archive-475-video-art-works-online/)
- [How Can You Resist?](https://freewaves.org/programs/9th-biennial-festival-of-film-video-and-new-media-how-can-you-resist-booklet/)
- [Latin American Freewaves](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-freewaves-latin-america-program-booklet/)
- [TV or Not TV](https://freewaves.org/programs/tv-or-not-tv-9-public-debates-about-art-on-tv/)
- [TV or Not TV](https://freewaves.org/programs/tv-or-not-tv/)
- [Artists' Intro to the Internet](https://freewaves.org/programs/5-free-workshops-introducing-artists-to-the-internet-at-lace-in-hollywood/)
- [Air Raids](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-freewaves-7th-annual-celebration-of-experimental-media-open-submission-outreach-flyer/)
- [All Over the Map](https://freewaves.org/programs/freewaves-6th-celebration-of-independent-video-and-new-media-all-over-the-map-newspaper/) - Freewaves 6th Celebration of Independent Video and New Media: ALL OVER THE MAP (Newspaper)
- [LA Freewaves goes to LA Libraries](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-freewaves-goes-to-the-la-libraries-project-urban-myths-and-legends/)
- [Private TV, Public Living Rooms](https://freewaves.org/programs/6th-festival-public-living-rooms/)
- [TV at Large](https://freewaves.org/programs/tv-at-large-an-evening-of-video-projections/)
- [Freewaves 3rd Festival](https://freewaves.org/programs/freewaves-3rd-celebration-of-independent-video/)
- [Freewaves' 2nd Festival](https://freewaves.org/programs/la-freewaves-2nd-celebration-of-independent-video/)
- [Dis…Miss](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Masculinities](https://freewaves.org/programs/x-amen-ing-main/)
- [Heal Hear Here](https://freewaves.org/programs/heal-hear-here/)
- [Racial Radical](https://freewaves.org/programs/racial-radical/)
- [SoCal Social](https://freewaves.org/programs/social/)
- [Long Live LA](https://freewaves.org/programs/long-live-la/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Participate](https://freewaves.org/programs/x-amen-ing-participate/)
- [X-aMEN-ing About](https://freewaves.org/programs/x-amen-ing-about/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Artists](https://freewaves.org/programs/x-amen-ing-artists/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Portraits](https://freewaves.org/programs/x-amen-ing-portraits/)
- [Lions, Tigers, And...](https://freewaves.org/programs/lions/)
- [Dismiss Videos](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss-videos/)
- [Dismiss Calendar](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss-calendar/)
- [Dismiss Responses](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss-responses/)
- [Dismiss Analysis](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss-analysis/)
- [Dismiss Participate](https://freewaves.org/programs/dismiss-participate/)

## Video Items

- [Hear My Voice pt1](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt1-2/) - content here
- [Claim Your Space](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt5/)
- [No Apologies](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt4/)
- [No is OK](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt3/)
- [Stand up (and Dance)](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt2/) - content here
- [Take It](https://freewaves.org/video/hear-my-voice-pt1/) - content here
- [Dating While Femme](https://freewaves.org/video/we-are-all-women/)
- [Gaming While Girl](https://freewaves.org/video/sisterhood-and-leadership/)
- [Mansplaining](https://freewaves.org/video/mobility/)
- [Pocket Man](https://freewaves.org/video/violence-in-the-community/)
- [Slutwalk](https://freewaves.org/video/take-back-the-streets/)
- [Take Back the Streets](https://freewaves.org/video/mi-mama-2/)
- [Violence in the Community](https://freewaves.org/video/nuevas-novelas-2/)
- [Mobility](https://freewaves.org/video/im-not-her-im-me-2/)
- [Sisterhood and Leadership](https://freewaves.org/video/la-loteria-2/)
- [We Are All Women](https://freewaves.org/video/boys-will-be-boys-2/)
- [Hear My Voice pt4](https://freewaves.org/video/mi-mama/)
- [Hear My Voice pt5](https://freewaves.org/video/nuevas-novelas/)
- [Hear My Voice pt3](https://freewaves.org/video/boys-will-be-boys/)
- [Hear My Voice pt2](https://freewaves.org/video/la-loteria/) - content here
- [Mi Mama](https://freewaves.org/video/insert-name-5/) - content here
- [Nuevas Novelas](https://freewaves.org/video/insert-name-4/) - content here
- [I’m Not Her I’m Me](https://freewaves.org/video/insert-name-3/) - content here
- [La Loteria](https://freewaves.org/video/insert-name-2/) - content here
- [Boys Will Be Boys](https://freewaves.org/video/insert-name/)
- [5 min mp3 2](https://freewaves.org/video/5-min-mp3-2/) - content here
- [5 min mp3](https://freewaves.org/video/5-min-mp3/) - content here
- [Youtube 2](https://freewaves.org/video/youtube-2/) - content here
- [Vimeo 1](https://freewaves.org/video/vimeo-1/) - content here
- [Youtube 1](https://freewaves.org/video/youtube-1/) - content here
- [self hosted 1](https://freewaves.org/video/self-hosted-1/) - content here

## Artists

- [TIMEDONE](https://freewaves.org/artist/timedone/) - TIMEDONE offered a full service record-clearing expungement clinic and Ingrid Archie performed as emcee. TimeDone is a flagship program of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, the nation’s largest grassroots public safety organization uniting families from communities most impacted by violent crime. TimeDone serves as a resource hub, enabling individuals with past records to access
- [DANCING THROUGH PRISON WALLS](https://freewaves.org/artist/dancing-through-prison-walls/) - DANCING THROUGH PRISON WALLS provided a live performance centering dances written inside Norco Prison, 6 artists dancing and conversing on creating in carceral spaces (3 choreographic interpreters, 3 formerly incarcerated narrators), Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic Dancing Through Prison Walls is a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance
- [FUTURE IDs PROJECT](https://freewaves.org/artist/future-ids-project/) - FUTURE IDs PROJECT offered an installation of 50 ID-inspired artworks. The Future IDs project expresses the collective power of rescripting identity, artistic representation, and narrative during and after incarceration. For ten years a committed group of artists, allies, and most importantly, individuals with conviction histories have been working together to translate criminal justice advocacy into
- [THE PLACE4GRACE](https://freewaves.org/artist/the-place4grace/) - THE PLACE4GRACE showed murals created by incarcerated fathers + their children during Camp Grace, hosted by The Place4Grace. The Place4Grace holds Camp Grace, an art and music based program that brings children ages 8-14 to CDCR facilities to spend a full week with their parents! Children and their parents spend 6-8 hours together in the
- [BUDGET 2 SAVE LIVES  + CURB](https://freewaves.org/artist/budget-2-save-lives-curb/) - BUDGET 2 SAVE LIVES + CURB showed how they use budget advocacy as a tool to shift California’s $18.3 billion corrections budget away from prisons and toward life-affirming areas like housing, education, environmental protection, and immigrant justice currently at risk. B2SL presented their new zine designed to support community members in their budget advocacy efforts
- [CLAYDD](https://freewaves.org/artist/claydd/) - CLAYDD offered mindfulness exercises, sonic baths and claymaking CLAYDD is a Non-Profit Organization and a community of educators, artists, and healers inspiring and promoting expression and mental health through mindfulness and the healing qualities of clay. In our workshops we work to empower both children and adult learners with mental health struggles and/or special needs.
- [API RISE](https://freewaves.org/artist/api-rise/) - API RISE offered a photo booth for folks who missed senior prom or other occasion because of incarceration. Don’t have anything to wear to prom? Don’t worry, they have a rack of “quickie prom outfits and accessories” to make you feel glam. API RISE supports the justice-impacted Asian/Pacific Islander community in the Los Angeles and
- [ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION](https://freewaves.org/artist/anti-recidivism-coalition-2/) - ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION highlighted fire crew members and focused on pay raises and expungement opportunities for them. The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) works to end mass incarceration in California. To ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, ARC empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network, comprehensive reentry services, and opportunities
- [MEZTLI PROJECTS + RED DEER SINGERS](https://freewaves.org/artist/meztli-projects-red-deer-singers/) - MEZTLI PROJECTS + RED DEER SINGERS offered traditional drum songs honoring the healing practices and tribal members who have helped build a system of support for peoples impacted by the carcecal system. Meztli Projects supports the creative development of Native and Indigenous Peoples by providing an ecosystem of support that helps strengthen and reconnect generations,
- [The ACTORS' GANG PRISON PROJECT](https://freewaves.org/artist/the-actors-gang-prison-project/) - The ACTORS’ GANG PRISON PROJECT provided an open workshop of ensemble-based theatrical games and practices intended to foster community and artistic self-expression. They then performed a resulting work from the day’s creations. The Actors’ Gang Prison Project is an ensemble theater program offered in adult prisons, youth facilities, and re-entry centers throughout California. Our mission
- [PRISON ARTS COLLECTIVE](https://freewaves.org/artist/prison-arts-collective/) - PRISON ARTS COLLECTIVE showcased drawn and painted artworks by our participants at the local California Institute for Women with CDCR approval. In response to the participants’ call for exhibition opportunities, PAC’s Teaching Artists invited the women at CIW to create site specific works especially for the community event and for those attending! At the event,
- [STREET POETS](https://freewaves.org/artist/street-poets/) - STREET POETS offered creative writing workshops and Matthew Cuban Hernandez read from his poems. Street Poets harnesses the healing power of poetry and music to build community and inspire our next generation to write, rap and dream a new world into being for us all. Back to Program
- [WRITEGIRL](https://freewaves.org/artist/writegirl/) - WRITEGIRL offered a workshop in writing notes to girls in prison. Founded in 2001, WriteGirl is a nationally-recognized creative writing and mentoring organization serving more than 700 teens annually. WriteGirl programs offer teens the chance to work with mentors, using creative writing as a vehicle for self-expression and personal development. Workshops feature multi-sensory activities and
- [TINA CALDERON](https://freewaves.org/artist/tina-calderon-2/) - TINA CALDERON offered songs, a welcome, blessing and land acknowledgment. Tina Calderon is a Culture Bearer of Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash and Yoeme descent. She is also a traditional singer & dancer, storyteller & poet who strives to honor her ancestors and inspire others to respect the lands, water, sacred elements and environment. Back to Program
- [PROJECT PROTOCOL](https://freewaves.org/artist/project-protocol/) - PROJECT PROTOCOL offered an anonymous, audio-recorded booth where participants can share personal stories about their experiences with parole, probation, and law enforcement. Project Protocol is a community-driven platform dedicated to transparency, accountability, and peer support for individuals navigating the parole system. Our work centers on the lived experiences of people on supervision, offering tools like
- [WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS](https://freewaves.org/artist/west-coast-credible-messengers/) - WEST COAST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS collectively liberated Berto Lule during his performance. West Coast Credible Messengers is a network of formerly incarcerated leaders, mentors, and advocates committed to breaking cycles of violence and incarceration through transformative mentoring. Rooted in lived experience and community-based leadership, our work empowers justice-involved individuals to reclaim their narratives and become agents
- [BERTO LULE + FRIENDS](https://freewaves.org/artist/berto-lule-friends/) - BERTO LULE + FRIENDS collaborated with West Coast Credible Messengers and UCLA Underground Scholars in a performance collectively liberating them. Alberto Lule uses readymades, mixed media installations, video, performances, and tools used by agencies of authority to examine and critique the prison industrial complex in the United States, particularly the California carceral state. Using his
- [UCLA UNDERGROUND SCHOLARS](https://freewaves.org/artist/ucla-underground-scholars/) - UCLA UNDERGROUND SCHOLARS collectively liberated Berto Lule during his performance. The UCLA Underground Scholars support building a prison-to-school pipeline through recruitment, retention, and advocacy. By creating a pathway for formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals into higher education, we directly challenge the stigmas associated with our community. By supporting a prison-to-school pipeline, the Bruin Underground
- [CISPES  + CRACK RODRIGUEZ](https://freewaves.org/artist/cispes-crack-rodriguez/) - CISPES + CRACK RODRIGUEZ Crack Rodríguez, La Comadre Ja ja ja and CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) united in a powerful public performance that interlaced collective memory, political resistance, and transnational solidarity into a shared cultural act. Crack, known for site-responsive installations and evocative performance, confronts the fractures created by
- [MASS LIBERATION](https://freewaves.org/artist/mass-liberation/) - MASS LIBERATION offered an interactive circle, Shame Resilence. Mass Liberation is dedicated to transforming lives through empowerment, focusing on individuals reintegrating into society after incarceration. Our mission goes beyond mere support; we strive to equip Returning Citizens with the essential tools, resources, and connections they need to thrive. Back to Program
- [HEALING DIALOGUE and ACTION](https://freewaves.org/artist/healing-dialogue-and-action/) - HEALING DIALOGUE and ACTION provided a healing circle about restorative justice and the emcee, Martin Haro. Healing Dialogue and Action – Building Bridges: Healing Through Restorative Justice Healing Dialogue and Action (HDA) offers therapeutic support groups and individual accompaniment for survivors of violence and individuals accused of severe crimes, particularly those involving loss of life.
- [GREAT LEAP inc.](https://freewaves.org/artist/great-leap-inc/) - GREAT LEAP inc. offered The Manzanar Baseball Project LIBERATION BATTING RANGE, a fun participatory activity where people can bat a soft baseball off a tee and aim for liberation goals of your choice! (all ages) Great Leap creates bridges to a more just world, weaving performing arts, cultural practices, and community engagement to transform our
- [GIVE A BEAT + geriFree](https://freewaves.org/artist/give-a-beat-gerifree/) - GIVE A BEAT + geriFree DJed the whole event! geriFree began her music journey through the “On a New Track” Reentry Mentoring Program and has since become known for her infectious energy and uplifting spirit. In her 60s, geriFree continues to inspire through her music, including her debut single “Pure Joy” and its remix, bringing
- [CRITICAL RESISTANCE](https://freewaves.org/artist/critical-resistance/) - CRITICAL RESISTANCE offered a circle dialogue on transformative justice. The Los Angeles chapter of Critical Resistance is part of a national grassroots organization building an international movement to end the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable
- [CALIFORNIA FAMILIES AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT](https://freewaves.org/artist/california-families-against-solitary-confinement/) - CALIFORNIA FAMILIES AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT offered public readings of women’s writing from solitary California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (CFASC) is an organization whose mission is to stop the inhumane treatment of prisoners within the California Penal System, especially those held in solitary confinement and administrative housing units. Our loved ones have been incarcerated, in
- [BRENT BLAIR](https://freewaves.org/artist/brent-blair/) - BRENT BLAIR will offer a community engagement. An embodied outdoor workshop will invite peoples’ expressions of desire and difficulties based on different participants’ direct and unique experiences of the carceral system. We will use embodied images to share our experiences with other stakeholders to create a culture of connection and empathy, and an interactive dramatic
- [ACTA](https://freewaves.org/artist/acta/) - ACTA The Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ Jam will showcase a curated selection of renowned artists whose work reflects the culture and traditions of their communities. Through these performances, audiences will experience a rich blend of artistic traditions, including Son Jarocho, Afro-Colombian drumming and dance, Mariachi, Spoken word, and Storytelling. This event aims to create
- [ACLU SoCAL](https://freewaves.org/artist/aclu-socal-2/) - ACLU SoCAL advocates rally for the closure of Men’s Central Jail in L.A. County. It’s about time: Civic activation against abuse in L.A. County Jails the ACLU SoCal has worked to defend the civil liberties of all people as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights through litigation, policy advocacy and organizing.
- [Grupo Huaxyacac](https://freewaves.org/artist/grupo-huaxyacac/) - Grupo Huaxyacac Founded in Los Angeles in 1989, Grupo Folklorico Huāxyacac preserves and disseminates Oaxacan culture through dance. “Huāxyacac” (pronounced “wah-she-YAH-cack”) is a Nahuatl word meaning “Place of the Guaje,” and refers to the pre-colonial region of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, where the Guaje tree originates. Performing in Guelaguetza festivals across California, and offering free
- [Alison De La Cruz](https://freewaves.org/artist/alison-de-la-cruz/) - Alison De La Cruz Alison De La Cruz (she/he/they/DeLa) is a content creator, producer, facilitator, artist, contemporary ritualist, cultural space instigator, gathering practitioner, and host. De La Cruz has over 30 years of experience as a facilitator and training deviser, helping co-workers, peers, collaborators, and strangers talk with each other. De La Cruz has created
- [Carole Kim and Friends](https://freewaves.org/artist/carole-kim/) - Carole Kim and Friends Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multi-media installations, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing and photography. Her work spans diverse contexts including experimental art, music, dance, theater and site-specific installation. Out of a love of experimentation, process and collaborative improvisational co-creation has sprung a consistent body
- [Alexandra Grant](https://freewaves.org/artist/alexandra-grant/) - Alexandra Grant Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles– and Berlin–based visual artist whose work explores issues around communication across languages, literary traditions, and cultures. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries globally and she is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York and carlier | gebauer in Berlin and Madrid. Grant is
- [Mandy Harris Williams](https://freewaves.org/artist/mandy-harris-williams/) - Mandy Harris Williams Mandy Harris Williams is a multimedia artist, working in the literary/intellectual, visual, cinematic, performative and musical arts, originally hailing from New York City and now living in Los Angeles. She graduated from Harvard, having studied the History of the African Diaspora, as well as contemporary Black issues, including the mass incarceration crisis
- [Elana Mann](https://freewaves.org/artist/elana-mann-3/) - Elana Mann Elana Mann is an artist who explores the power of the collective voice and the politics of listening through sculpture, sound, and community engagement. Her protest instruments and public projects uplift voices of disempowered groups with a focus on womxn and Femmes. Mann is the granddaughter of a chemist who worked on the
- [Amitis Motevalli](https://freewaves.org/artist/amitis-motevalli-3/) - Amitis Motevalli Amitis Motevalli is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and/or war. Her experiences as a trans-national migrant and community organizing are foundational in her work and research. Through many media, digital, analog, static and live, her work juxtaposes and contrasts iconography with iconoclasm, memorials
- [LA Derby Dolls](https://freewaves.org/artist/la-derby-dolls/) - LA Derby Dolls The LA Derby Dolls, a non-profit, volunteer-run banked-track roller derby league, exemplify a mission deeply grounded in feminism, community, growth, and leadership. Their commitment to these values is evident in their dedication to empowering members within the athletic realm, providing opportunities for community engagement, personal development, and leadership roles. Founded in 2003,
- [Parisa Parnian](https://freewaves.org/artist/parisa-parnian/) - Parisa Parnian Parisa Parnian Parisa Parnian is an Iranian-American multi-disciplinary visual artist and culinary creative. She uses food, public art installations, design, events and storytelling to build bridges and connect communities. Thru Savage Muse, her radically inclusive creative studio, founded 8 years ago, Parisa has partnered with various art and cultural organizations as well as
- [In Lak Ech of Mujeres de Maíz](https://freewaves.org/artist/in-las-ech-of-mujeres-de-maiz/) - In Lak Ech of Mujeres de Maíz In Lak Ech is a L.A. based Xicana Indigenous collective composed of multi-media artists, writers, mothers, teachers, and organizers uniting to tell Her-story through poetry, drumming and song. Their name is a Mayan concept meaning “you are my other me/tu eres mi otro yo.” The women of In
- [SHINE Muwasi](https://freewaves.org/artist/shine-muwasi-2/) - SHINE Muwasi SHINE Muwasi Women’s African Drum Circle is a group of women from Southern California lead by Rene Fisher-Mims who formed the group to spread the knowledge of West African drum culture combined with healing, empowerment and inspiration. SHINE aspires to pass on the wisdom to those interested in West African culture. Back to
- [Young Joon Kwak](https://freewaves.org/artist/young-joon-kwak-2/) - Young Joon Kwak Young Joon Kwak (they/she) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and performance artist whose work challenges the boundaries of representation through inventive techniques of masking and camouflage. Kwak’s art generates new and embodied forms of connection and interaction with others that go beyond traditional categories of gender and race, while vividly imagining new
- [Audience](https://freewaves.org/artist/audience-2/) - Audience Thank you to our audience + community at Heal Hear Here! Back to Main
- [Freewaves Staff](https://freewaves.org/artist/freewaves-staff/) - Freewaves Staff Thank you to Freewaves staff + volunteers! Back to Main
- [Patricia Fernández — LA Contemporary Archive](https://freewaves.org/artist/patricia-fernandez/) - Patricia Fernández — LA Contemporary Archive Patricia Fernández (b. 1980, Burgos; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2010 and a BFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City (2023); Whistle, Seoul (2021); Commonwealth
- [Project 1521](https://freewaves.org/artist/project-1521/) - Project 1521 Project 1521 is a California cadre of poets, writers and artists who came together in response to the 500 years since the arrival of Hernan Cortéz to the Americas and to reflect on the artist Sandy Rodriguez’s contemporary Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón. In October, 2021, independent HINCHAS Press (www.hinchaspress.com) published Tlacuilix: Tongues In Quarantine (ISBN
- [dublab](https://freewaves.org/artist/dublab/) - dublab dublab is a Los Angeles-based, community-supported internet radio station and creative collective dedicated to the growth of positive music, arts, and culture. Founded in 1999, dublab has been broadcasting since the “dot-com era” with the mission to share forward-thinking, freeform radio with an international audience. dublab’s programming has since expanded to include the production
- [Ashley Blakeney — Crenshaw Dairy Mart](https://freewaves.org/artist/ashley-blakeney/) - Ashley Blakeney — Crenshaw Dairy Mart Ashley Blakeney (she/her/hers) is an arts healing facilitator and arts administrator. With a specific love for photography, expressive writing and music, Ashley holds a passion for using arts healing approaches to empower folks to utilize art as a tool of storytelling and healing. Ashley began her tenure as Executive
- [Sharon Chohi Kim — Fulcrum Arts](https://freewaves.org/artist/sharon-chohi-kim/) - Sharon Chohi Kim — Fulcrum Arts Sharon Chohi Kim’s work as a voice artist, performer and composer includes immersive experimental opera, performance art, improvisation, sound art and site-specific space activation through movement and voice. As a Korean American female artist, she is interested in human connection across cultures and generations, transgenerational trauma of the Korean diaspora,
- [Jenna Didier & Khayra Mentado — LA River Public Art Project](https://freewaves.org/artist/la-river-public-art-project/) - Jenna Didier & Khayra Mentado — LA River Public Art Project LA River Public Art Project advocates for the integration of arts and culture in revitalization efforts along the River's 51-mile corridor from Canoga Park to Long Beach. Through a variety of programs and initiatives, including activations along a different stretch of the River each
- [Adee Roberson — LAND (LA Nomadic Division)](https://freewaves.org/artist/adee-roberson/) - Adee Roberson — LAND (LA Nomadic Division) Adee Roberson (b.1981, West Palm Beach, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving
- [Debra Scacco and Joel Garcia](https://freewaves.org/artist/debra-scacco-and-joel-garcia/) - Debra Scacco and Joel Garcia For Water is a transitional sculpture and performance work that celebrates the energy of water in our bodies, our spirits, and in the earth. Situated among an arrangement of angled, reflective panels embedded in a sea of sand (each hand carved with paths of the Los Angeles River), a vocalist
- [One Grain of Sand / Beth Peterson — LA Commons](https://freewaves.org/artist/la-commons-beth-peterson-and-one-grain-of-sand-puppet-theater/) - One Grain of Sand / Beth Peterson — LA Commons LA Commons engages communities in the creation of public art that tells their unique stories and serves as the basis for dialogue, interaction, and a shared understanding of Los Angeles. One Grain of Sand is an eclectic gathering of visual artists, musicians, performers and educators
- [Shine Muwasi — LA Commons](https://freewaves.org/artist/shine-muwasi/) - Shine Muwasi — LA Commons S.H.I.N.E. MUWASI (in the hands of God), formed & established by Rene Fisher-Mims with an intent & purpose to spread the knowledge of West African Drum culture to women in the community. With a vision of healing, empowering, caring, and inspiring women to play the instruments of our African descent, SHINE
- [Lauren Bon — Metabolic Studio](https://freewaves.org/artist/lauren-bon/) - Lauren Bon — Metabolic Studio Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into
- [Marcos Lutyens — artworxLA](https://freewaves.org/artist/marcos-lutyens/) - Marcos Lutyens — artworxLA Marcos Lutyens´ artistic practice targets the psychic and emotional well-being of his audiences by skillfully leading participants in hypnotic exercises that affect the deepest levels of their psyche. His works take form in installations, sculptures, drawings, paintings, short films, writings, and performances. Venues and communities that Marcos Lutyens worked with on
- [Maria Maea — LA Nomadic Division](https://freewaves.org/artist/maria-maea/) - Maria Maea — LA Nomadic Division Maria Maea (b. 1988, Long Beach, CA) is a Samoan-Mexican American artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses film, sculpture, and performance. Her work investigates the “brown body’s (dys)function as capitalist commodity, as a resistance to somatic fixity, an examination of the multiplicities of consciousness, and survival as immigrants and first
- [Diana Wallace and Micah Moch — UCLArts & Healing](https://freewaves.org/artist/diana-wallace-and-ricka-kelsch/) - Diana Wallace and Micah Moch — UCLArts & Healing UCLArts & Healing’s mission is to transform lives through creative expression by integrating the innate benefits of the arts with mental health practices for self-discovery, connection, and empowerment. Diana Lynn Wallace is a Remo-endorsed Drum Circle Facilitator, teaching artist, singer/songwriter and composer based in Los Angeles. She
- [Sara Harris Ben-Ari: Escritorio Público](https://freewaves.org/artist/sara-harris-ben-ari/) - Sara Harris Ben-Ari: Escritorio Público Sara Harris (Ben-Ari) is a Los Angeles-based assemblage + audio artist + activist + performance poet + certified Master Gardener with over two decades pubic radio-reporting on immigration + urban landscapes + environmental justice. Co-founder of RadioSonideros sound collective and of local non-profit 1866 (www.solanocanyon.org). Host of Hear in the
- [Bee Harris — Museum of Jurassic Technology](https://freewaves.org/artist/bee-harris/) - Bee Harris — Museum of Jurassic Technology Bee Harris (They/Them) is a queer nonbinary artist and community herbalist who currently lives in Topanga Canyon CA on unceded Tongva land. Bee runs Rainbow Waters apothecary and can often be found serving tea at The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Their herbal work focuses on collective care and
- [Alison De La Cruz (DeLa) with D’Lo — Armory Center for the Arts](https://freewaves.org/artist/dela-also-known-as-alison-de-la-cruz/) - Alison De La Cruz (DeLa) with D'Lo — Armory Center for the Arts DeLa (aka Alison De La Cruz) will be creating their debut installation piece entitled The Portal for Grieving & Healing. This 5-archway installation is a partnership with the Armory Center for the Arts and will be enhanced by pre-festival participatory grief circles
- [Ni Santas — Self Help Graphics](https://freewaves.org/artist/ni-santas-3/) - Ni Santas — Self Help Graphics Ni Santas is an all Women of Color art collective started in the summer of 2016 in Boyle Heights, California. They create socially conscious art while promoting sisterhood through skill sharing.With a shared attraction to graffiti, silk screening and other similar art styles every member contributes to incorporate a
- [Ching Ching Cheng and Amanda Sutton Artsy — LA Artcore](https://freewaves.org/artist/ching-ching-cheng-and-amanda-sutton-artsy/) - Ching Ching Cheng and Amanda Sutton Artsy — LA Artcore Ching Ching Cheng was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States in 2002, and received an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2020. Her practice has consisted of drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, performance, and videos. Ching has exhibited at LACMA Rental and Sales
- [hannah rubin — Craft Contemporary](https://freewaves.org/artist/hannah-rubin/) - hannah rubin — Craft Contemporary hannah rubin is a writer, poet, artist, and educator based in Los Angeles. Their writing about queer ecology and trans relationships has appeared in F Magazine, The Seventh Wave, Artforum, Canthius, and the Berkeley Poetry Review, among other publications and anthologies. Back to Main
- [Lez Bats (Sandra de la Loza and Jess Gudiel) — LA Freewaves](https://freewaves.org/artist/sandra-de-la-loza-and-jess-gudiel/) - Lez Bats (Sandra de la Loza and Jess Gudiel) — LA Freewaves Born and raised in the land of the Tongva, aka Los Angeles, Sandra de la Loza is a second generation mestiza whose roots come from the lands of New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, she was aware
- [Los Angeles Poverty Department](https://freewaves.org/artist/los-angeles-poverty-department/) - Los Angeles Poverty Department Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row. LAPD's Skid Row
- [Micaela Tobin & Adam Starkopf — LACE](https://freewaves.org/artist/michaela-tobin-white-boy-scream/) - Micaela Tobin & Adam Starkopf — LACE: Music Preview Music Preview from APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles, CA who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera. As a sound artist with a background in opera, Micaela integrates voice and electronics within
- [KA McMahon / Sewing Circle — Coaxial Arts Foundation](https://freewaves.org/artist/ka/) - KA McMahon / Sewing Circle — Coaxial Arts Foundation KA (pronounced KAY-AY) is a multidisciplinary artist who was raised in Atlanta, GA and became an individual by the rivers of Athens, GA. Their work is created using collected materials, images, and sounds to recontextualize an experience of Place. Their textile sculptures, videos, and performances are time-based
- [Center for the Study of Political Graphics](https://freewaves.org/artist/center-for-the-study-of-political-graphics-cspg/) - Center for the Study of Political Graphics Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an activist, educational, and research archive. Our more than 90, 000 social movement posters and prints date from the 19th century to the present, including the largest collection of post-WWII political posters in the U.S. CSPG creates traveling and online
- [Anna Luisa Petrisko](https://freewaves.org/artist/anna-luisa-petrisko/) - Anna Luisa Petrisko Anna Luisa Petrisko (she/her) works in video, performance, sound, installation, textiles, and interactive media. Her art is invested in the sacred as much as it is interested in technological speculation, exploring future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo. She investigates the body as a site of paradox - transcendent of time,
- [Community Chorus / Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs & Tany Ling — Feminist Center for Creative Work](https://freewaves.org/artist/community-chorus-carolyn-pennypacker-riggs/) - Community Chorus / Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, Conducted by Tany Ling — Feminist Center for Creative Work Community Chorus is an collective singing space, on-call activist chorus, and experimental performing ensemble led by artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and conductor Tany Ling. Our goal is to provide a platform for connection and recreational healing - sounds good,
- [Elana Mann — AF31RM, Ni Santas, She Loves Collective, Tomorrow Girls Troop](https://freewaves.org/artist/elana-mann-2/) - Elana Mann — AF31RM, Ni Santas, She Loves Collective, Tomorrow Girls Troop Elana Mann is an artist who explores the power of the collective voice and the act of listening through sculpture, sound, and community engagement. Mann has presented her work in museums, galleries, and public spaces in the U.S. and globally. She Loves Collective
- [Sarah Rosalena — Clockshop](https://freewaves.org/artist/sarah-rosalena/) - Sarah Rosalena — Clockshop Sarah Rosalena Brady (Wixárika) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles. Her work deconstructs technology with material interventions, creating new narratives for hybrid objects that function between human/nonhuman, ancient/future, and handmade/autonomous to override power structures rooted in colonialism. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa
- [Amy Chiao — GYOPO](https://freewaves.org/artist/woohee-cho-amy-chiao/) - Amy Chiao — GYOPO Amy Chiao is a multimedia artist, performer, designer, writer, and director working in site-specific performance installation, durational character development, and materials design. Her practice is playfully rooted in interrogative dramaturgical systems design, developing audience and participant dynamics grounded in satirical investigation of symbolic interactionism between material, man, machine, and milieu. She
- [Queer Spa Network](https://freewaves.org/artist/queer-spa-network/) - Queer Spa Network is a group of autonomous Queer artists and healers invested in rest, healing, and pleasure for our communities. We are brought together to exchange knowledge and collaborate on projects that serve our values and build empathetic communal relationships with our body, the land and waters, and one another. Queer Spa Network meets
- [Lazaro Arvizu Jr. — Fulcrum Arts](https://freewaves.org/artist/lazaro-arvizu-jr/) - Lazaro Arvizu Jr. — Fulcrum Arts Lazaro Arvizu Jr. is an artist, educator, musician, and researcher dedicated to the culture of the first people of Los Angeles. Born in the Los Angeles Basin, he is knowledgeable of the landscape and cosmology of the Gabrieleno culture. He has worked for over 20 years facilitating creative and meaningful
- [Tina Calderon — Fulcrum Arts](https://freewaves.org/artist/tina-calderon/) - Tina Calderon — Fulcrum Arts Tina Calderon is a Culture Bearer of Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash and Yoeme descent. She is also a traditional singer & dancer, storyteller & poet who strives to honor her ancestors and inspire others to respect the lands, water, sacred elements and environment. Back to Main
- [Fabian Wagmister — REMAP, UCLA & PedaLudico, cheLA](https://freewaves.org/artist/fabian-wagmister/) - Fabian Wagmister — REMAP, UCLA & PedaLudico, cheLA Fabian’s recent projects consider how we move as a defining factor of individual and collective identity. He combines extensive bicycling derive processes with synchronous interpretive digital tools to generate performative experiences merging territorial engagement, ludic experimentation, and interpretive media expression. In his bike projects Fabian proposes mechanisms
- [Thinh Nguyen — LACE](https://freewaves.org/artist/thinh-nguyen-3/) - Thinh Nguyen — LACE Thinh Nguyen (b. 1984, Bảo An, Vietnam.), a cultural provocateur and critic who works to investigate the intersections of cultural values. Nguyen is expanding on their current and ongoing project/s relating to the notion of social-cultural transition/ing. Their sense of belonging is located in a collection of post-consumer materials through their
- [Tony Cokes](https://freewaves.org/artist/tony-cokes/) - Tony Cokes (b. 1956), is a visual artist. His artwork concerns popular culture and mass entertainment. In the 1990s, he was part of the band X-PRZ. His videos often take the form of essays in which Cokes displays fragments of found texts on brightly-colored backgrounds, set to popular music. He is known to combine quotes
- [Portraits Template](https://freewaves.org/artist/portraits-template/) - Kiki Xtravaganza A unique public figure @houseofxtravaganza Rhinestoner/Wardrobe stylist/Designer/Performance Artist/Voguer at Royal House of Xtravaganza was recently given the title of Legendary! Back to Main
- [Alex Donis](https://freewaves.org/artist/alex-donis/) - Alex Donis Alex Donis presents an installation of protest signs that depict various duos in arrested movement. Each sign includes a uniformed police officer and a Black or Brown man in suggestive sexual and/or playful dance poses. These illustrations do not attempt to reconcile the contradictions in this coupling, but instead highlight the body’s contours
- [Phranc](https://freewaves.org/artist/phranc/) - Phranc Welcome to the evolution of the Butch Revolution,” the singer-songwriter proclaims. Phranc performs a hybrid spoken word-musical set with their guitar, interweaving their classic songs with coming-of-age stories. They generously recollect memories of youth, including how they carried a copy of Jill Johnson’s Lesbian Nation (1973) under their arm everyday; their encounter with the
- [Sean Milan](https://freewaves.org/artist/sean-milan/) - The Legendary Sean/Milan™ Garcon A pioneering founder of the West Coast House/Ballroom Scene, and founder of House of AWT, Sean Milan hosts “The Masc for Mask Finale,” a ball open to all event attendees who are willing to walk the park’s overhead runway. Guest judges include: Jaylen Marc Jacobs, Gravity Jacobs, and Kiki Xtravaganza, with
- [d. Sabela grimes](https://freewaves.org/artist/d-sabela-grimes/) - d. Sabela grimes Sabela grimes turns the park’s center stage into a social space: an ad-hoc nail salon and a platform to promote dialogue on the themes of masculinities, toxic masculinity, and patriarchy. The artist welcomes audiences in: “Come talk it out with us, come get your nails painted…” With various low tables stationed throughout
- [rafa esparza](https://freewaves.org/artist/rafa-esparza-2/) - rafa esparza rafa esparza runs the entire perimeter of the park in a continuous loop from 7:30pm-9pm. He wears an all-black jogging suit with the hoodie pulled up over his head, sunglasses, and a black bandana wrapped around each hand. He holds up a heavy mirror with an ornate frame, which partially conceals his body
- [Asher Hartman (Director) and Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, and Tim Reid (performers)](https://freewaves.org/artist/asher-hartman/) - Director Asher Hartman and performers Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, and Tim Reid Theatre director Asher Hartman and performers Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten and Tim Reid riff on the John Cassavetes’s film, Husbands, which has been described as the “most honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.” (Criterion Collection) The 1970 film depicts three men
- [Sarah Johnson](https://freewaves.org/artist/sarah-johnson/) - Sarah Johnson Sarah Johnson and Corey Fogel perform on a hilltop with a distant glaring streetlamp illuminating their silhouettes. Fogel plays the drums as Johnson enacts a series of forceful actions that involve a deconstructed drum-set. Each part—drums, drumstick, cymbals, and stand—is connected to another with chains, forming an assemblage of clattering sounds as they
- [Austin Young](https://freewaves.org/artist/austin-young-3/) - Austin Young Austin Young stages an outdoor photography studio on the park’s overhead walkway. The celebrated photographer invites attendees to pose for the camera and to exhibit varying embodiments of masculinity. The intention is to gift the resulting photographs to each person after the event. The walkway fills up with people, who perform masculinity in
- [José Guadalupe Sanchez](https://freewaves.org/artist/jose-guadalupe-sanchez/) - José Guadalupe Sanchez José Guadalupe Sanchez plans to read a text out loud. He has his paper in hand, ready-to-go, yet each time he tries, he encounters a slight problem. His stool—a narrow seat that is streamed with lights to illuminate his actions—cannot bear the weight of his body. He sits and it collapses under
- [Paul Donald](https://freewaves.org/artist/paul-donald/) - Paul Donald Paul Donald starts with an all-American scene: a man in blue jeans and a plain white T-shirt, surrounded by construction tools and a white picket fence. He is assembling Ikea furniture, likely frustrated yet adamant about getting the job done. This familiar scenario gradually opens up into an absurdist play: our everyman has
- [L.A. Parmelettes](https://freewaves.org/artist/l-a-parmelettes/) - L.A. Parmelettes L.A. Parmelettes kick off the evening with an energetic drum-line at the entrance of the park. Each member is clad in varying shades of pink, faces covered up with sunglasses and ski masks. Some hold drumsticks that colorfully light up each time they bang on the drumhead. The group assembles in a circle
- [Kiki Xtravangza](https://freewaves.org/artist/kiki-xtravangza/) - Kiki Xtravaganza A unique public figure @houseofxtravaganza Rhinestoner/Wardrobe stylist/Designer/Performance Artist/Voguer at Royal House of Xtravaganza was recently given the title of Legendary! Back to Main
- [Kenneth Tam](https://freewaves.org/artist/kenneth-tam/) - Kenneth Tam - is based in Queens, NY. He works in video, sculpture, installation and photography, and makes work about the performance of masculinity, physical intimacy and private ritual. His most recent work reimagines spaces and social customs for male bodies in order to reveal vulnerable moments that can exist among men. With his solo
- [Cassils](https://freewaves.org/artist/cassils/) - Cassils CASSILS (Los Angeles/ Toronto) is a Canadian transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils' art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and empowerment. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces
- [X-aMEN-ing Audience, Staff & Volunteers](https://freewaves.org/artist/audience-staff-volunteers/) - Audience, Staff & Volunteers Back to Main
- [Marcus Kuiland-Nazario](https://freewaves.org/artist/marcus-kuiland-nazario-3/) - Marcus Kuiland-Nazario - is an interdisciplinary artist, performance curator, and producer. Curatorial credits include Moontone at Human Resources, Pop Tarts at Highways Performance Space, Alphabet Soup at Grand Performances, Variedades at the Mayan, and Sea Change Lab at the 18th Street Arts Center. Kuiland-Nazario received the 2020/2021 City of Santa Monica Artist Fellowship award. His works
- [Patty Chang](https://freewaves.org/artist/patty-chang/) - Patty Chang - is a Los Angeles based artist and educator who uses performance, video, installation and narrative forms when considering identity, gender, transnationalism, colonial legacies, the environment, large-scale infrastructural projects and impacted subjectivities. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of California, San Diego, Chang moved to New York and became a
- [Sebastian Hernandez](https://freewaves.org/artist/sebastian-hernandez/) - Sebastian Hernandez Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Performance at 8 pm sharp inside of LACE ​Sebastian Hernandez is an LA native and multi-disciplinary artist who received a B.A. in both Art Practice and Dance and Performance Studies from the University of California Berkeley in 2016. They make art that ranges from drawings to paintings and
- [Anuradha Vikram](https://freewaves.org/artist/anuradha-vikram/) - Anuradha Vikram - is a Los Angeles-based writer, curator, and educator. Vikram is co-curator (with UCLA Art Sci Center director Victoria Vesna) of the upcoming Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (opening 2024), and recently curated the mid-career survey exhibition Jaishri Abichandani:
- [Shaun Leonardo](https://freewaves.org/artist/shaun-leonardo/) - Shaun Leonardo Shaun Leonardo’s performance practice, anchored by his work in Assembly—a diversion program for court-involved youth at the Brooklyn-based, arts nonprofit Recess—is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment. Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. His work has been featured at The Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, and New
- [Anne Bray](https://freewaves.org/artist/anne-bray-2/) - Anne Bray - has been working at the intersection of public space and media art as a hybrid artist and director of the nonprofit media arts organization, Freewaves. Engagement with edgy, demanding, clarifying art by a broad public is Bray’s mission. Her specialty is finding public platforms for pressing and compelling subjects to be broached
- [Zackary Drucker](https://freewaves.org/artist/zackary-drucker/) - Zackary Drucker Back to Ain't I A Woman Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art
- [Funmilola Fagbamila](https://freewaves.org/artist/funmilola-fagbamila/) - Funmilola Fagbamila Back to Ain't I A Woman Funmilola Fagbamila is a Nigerian American playwright, performance artist and professor. Her current project, entitled "The Intersection: Woke Black Folk", is a stage play on the complexities of Black political identity which has been met with critical acclaim by thinkers and artists such as Angela Davis and
- [Marcus Kuiland-Nazario](https://freewaves.org/artist/marcus-kuiland-nazario/) - Marcus Kuiland-Nazario Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Los Angeles native Marcus Kuiland-Nazario is an artist, curator and producer who is a 30 year veteran of the LA art and performance scenes. Marcus was on the producing team for last year's Aint I A Womxn?. He is a founding artist and or co founder of: Viva!
- [Yarn Bombing Los Angeles](https://freewaves.org/artist/yarn-bombing-los-angeles/) - Yarning Bombing Los Angeles Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is a fiber arts community that engages thousands of people online, worldwide, and locally in the Los Angeles area. YBLA currently collaborates with city governments, museums, alternative art spaces, and public spaces to create thought-provoking, community-generated public art installations. YBLA's work blends
- [Audience and Staff](https://freewaves.org/artist/audience-and-staff/) - Audience and Staff Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Here are some of the 4000 people who staffed and attended the fabulously blended event, making gender into an exciting theme amidst the mega meta exploration. It's ok to talk about it in public now.
- [Dakota Noot](https://freewaves.org/artist/dakota-noot/) - Dakota Noot Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Dakota is a Los Angeles-based artist. He uses drawings, paintings, and installations to create animal-human hybrids that explore rural yet fantastical, queer identities. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts in 2015 from the University of North Dakota. In 2017, he received
- [Reach LA](https://freewaves.org/artist/reach-la/) - Reach LA Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Motivating young LGBT people of color, ages 16 to 35, to increase self-care by providing social and sexual health services through an empowering community engagement process employing the visual and performing arts. REACH LA was founded in 1992 by 3 women artists, whose mission was to build partnerships
- [Austin Young](https://freewaves.org/artist/austin-young-2/) - Austin Young Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Austin young is from Reno, Nevada and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The foundation of his career is from studying at Parsons in Paris. Early in his career, Austin transferred his interests from traditional portrait painting towards a long celebrated career in portrait photography. In many
- [Yozmit](https://freewaves.org/artist/yozmit/) - Yozmit Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Yozmit is a Los Angeles based singer song writer, visual, performance artist.Through the ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown mysteries of her
- [Marsian De Lellis](https://freewaves.org/artist/marsian-de-lellis/) - Marsian De Lellis Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Marsian De Lellis is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who constructs installations and time-based visual narratives that memorialize obsessional lives. Their work celebrates the stories of unconventional people whose private manias become public fodder for tabloids and reality television. Combining biographical material with their own autobiography becomes
- [Raquel Gutiérrez & Karen Tongson](https://freewaves.org/artist/raquel-karen/) - Raquel Gutiérrez & Karen Tongson Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Raquel Gutiérrez writes personal essays, memoir, art criticism, and poetry. An adult child of Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants, she was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona where she just completed two MFAs in Poetry and Non-Fiction from the University
- [Martha Carrillo](https://freewaves.org/artist/martha-carrillo-2/) - Martha Carrillo Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Martha Carrillo is a local artist and printmaker working with Self Help Graphics in Boyle Heights, CA and also serves as one of their “Barrio Mobile Art Studio” teaching artists. Martha is also the Artistic Director of Heart on Arts and curates its recurring series of live arts
- [Reanne Estrada](https://freewaves.org/artist/reanne-estrada/) - Reanne Estrada Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Reanne Estrada is Los Angeles-based visual artist whose practice includes individual studio work in drawing, sculpture and installation, as well as collaborative work in performance, video and photography with Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. and artist C. Ree, and socially-engaged art with Public Matters, a social enterprise she co-founded for
- [Young Joon Kwak with Kim Ye](https://freewaves.org/artist/young-joon-kwak/) - Young Joon Kwak with Kim Ye Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Young Joon Kwak (b. 1984 in Queens, NY) is a LA-based multi-disciplinary artist working primarily through sculpture, performance, video, and collaboration. Kwak's work aims to transform our perception of marginalized bodies by reimagining their form, functionality, and materiality—from static and bound to pre-inscribed power
- [Jennifer Moon](https://freewaves.org/artist/jennifer-moon/) - Jennifer Moon Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Jennifer Moon (they/she; b. 1973, Lafayette, Indiana) is an interdisciplinary life-artist whose work investigates organizing systems (social systems, institutional structures, power relations, scientific theories, emotional frameworks, etc.) and how these various systems are entangled, inscribed, transmitted, performed, and perpetuated through bodies (human, nonhuman, material, immaterial). Drawing from the
- [Thinh Nguyen](https://freewaves.org/artist/thinh-nguyen-2/) - Thinh Nguyen Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Thinh Nguyen (b. 1984 Bao An, Vietnam; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received their MFA from Claremont Graduate University (2011) and BFA from California State University, Fullerton (2007). Nguyen multi-disciplinary art practice examines the intersectional inequity of cultural values surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and political power
- [Ni Santas](https://freewaves.org/artist/ni-santas-2/) - Ni Santas Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Joan Zeta, Clover and Andi Xoch Ni Santas is an all womxn of color art collective creating a safe space. We are working towards rewriting our stories through socially conscious art while promoting sisterhood through skill sharing. Our vision is to nourish women of color to reclaim spaces,
- [Christy Roberts Berkowitz](https://freewaves.org/artist/christy-roberts-berkowitz-2/) - Christy Roberts Berkowitz Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Artist, educator, agitator, and emotional laborer, Christy Roberts Berkowitz, composes experiences, images, and objects that attempt to reconcile the intersections of resistance and escapism, expectation and failure, subject and object, community and individualism. A third generation Southern Californian, Christy Roberts Berkowitz holds Bachelor Degrees in Philosophy and
- [The Fingerjoint](https://freewaves.org/artist/the-fingerjoint/) - The Fingerjoint Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR lesbian bar. lesbian bar. lesbian bar. The Fingerjoint will be LA’s only lesbian bar - a space made by lesbians for womxn, trans, and enby folks. We deserve a space in Los Angeles with great drinks, music, and programming. An actual place, not just a party. We’re currently looking
- [#SNATCHPOWER           (The Uhuruverse, Davia Spain, SondriaWRITES, Jordi Phi)](https://freewaves.org/artist/snatchpower/) - #SNATCHPOWER (The Uhuruverse, Davia Spain, SondriaWRITES, Jordi Phi) Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR #SNATCHPOWER is a post-apocalyptic, Black Indigenous futuristic, queer liberationist artist collective of humans who are deliberate and fearless. We are diverse in how we define ourselves in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and religion, but united in our
- [Amitis Motevalli](https://freewaves.org/artist/amitis-motevalli-2/) - Amitis Motevalli Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Amitis Motevalli is an artist born in Iran. She explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and/or war. Through many mediums including, sculpture, video, performance and collaborative public art, her work juxtaposes iconography with iconoclasm. Her work intends to ask questions about violence,
- [Julio Salgado](https://freewaves.org/artist/julio-salgado/) - Julio Salgado Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Julio Salgado is the co-founder of DreamersAdrift.com and project manager for CultureStrike. His status as an undocumented, queer artivist has fueled the contents of his visual art, which depict key individuals and moments of the DREAM Act and migrant rights movement. Undocumented students and allies across the country
- [Gender Justice LA](https://freewaves.org/artist/gender-justice-la/) - Gender Justice LA Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Gender Justice is presenting Project Q. We are a grassroots organization building the the power of the transgender and gender non-conforming community here in LA. We build campaigns to break the barriers that directly impact low-income trans people of color by focusing on health, wellness, peace and safety.
- [Otis College of Art and Design: Creative Action](https://freewaves.org/artist/otis-college-of-art-and-design-creative-action/) - Otis College of Art and Design: Creative Action Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Creative Action is an integrated learning program that introduces students to compelling social and environmental issues within their community through a series of core courses. We partner with local and international community organizations to identify and solve real-world environmental problems and social
- [Peace Over Violence](https://freewaves.org/artist/peace-over-violence/) - Peace Over Violence Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Peace Over Violence is a nonprofit 501c3, multicultural, community based and volunteer centered organization dedicated to building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence. To achieve this mission our agency manages five departments delivering the services of Emergency, Intervention, Prevention, Education and
- [WUHO - Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost - bauhaus.photo](https://freewaves.org/artist/wuho-woodbury-university-hollywood-outpost-bauhaus-photo/) - WUHO - Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost - bauhaus.photo Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR In 2019, Germany is celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, together with partners worldwide. The Bauhaus – School of design that only existed for a total of 14 years has continued to have a lasting effect up until the
- [Kristina Wong](https://freewaves.org/artist/kristina-wong-2/) - Kristina Wong Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Kristina Wong was featured in the New York Times’ Off Color series “highlighting artists of color who use humor to make smart social statements about the sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious ways that race plays out in America today.” She is a performance artist, comedian, writer and elected representative
- [Arshia Haq in collaboration with Cassils](https://freewaves.org/artist/arshia-haq-in-collaboration-with-cassils/) - Arshia Haq in collaboration with Cassils Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Arshia Fatima Haq (born in Hyderabad, India, based in Los Angeles, CA) works across film, visual art, performance and sound. She is interested in counter-archives, speculative documentaries, and the blurred lines between fact and fiction, and is currently exploring themes of embodiment and mysticism,
- [Pato Hebert](https://freewaves.org/artist/pato-hebert/) - Pato Hebert Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Pato Hebert is an artist, teacher and organizer. His projects have been presented at Beton7 in Athens, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, No Lugar and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Quito, the Songzhuang International Photo Biennale, IHLIA LGBT Heritage in Amsterdam and the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. He
- [Freewaves Infographics by Catherine Bell](https://freewaves.org/artist/freewaves-infographics-by-catherine-bell/) - Freewaves Infographics by Catherine Bell Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Freewaves has commissioned Catherine Bell to create infographics based on Marisa Turesky's analysis of the 1200 answers to the Dis...Miss postcard questions. Catherine Bell is a UX/UI Designer specializing in art museum and fine arts projects. She designs tech to spark a human connection with
- [Freewaves Postcards](https://freewaves.org/artist/freewaves-postcards/) - Freewaves Postcards Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Dis…Miss is a multi-year Los Angeles public art series (2016 – 2020) that investigates and celebrates artists’ and audiences’ views on gender through public performance and community engagement. Each Dis…Miss postcard includes a question related to the image that viewers answer anonymously. Viewers are offered 10 possible postcards
- [Freewaves Videos](https://freewaves.org/artist/freewaves-videos/) - Freewaves Videos Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Freewaves commissioned 25 short videos by 5 different artists addressing gendered reactions to traditional upbringings and current culture as part of the Dis…Miss series, a multi-year, audience engaging exchange about gender, using videos, performance art, and postcards. Screenings, workshops, exhibitions and discussions have occurred and continue in the
- [Black Lives Matter LA](https://freewaves.org/artist/black-lives-matter-la/) - Black Lives Matter LA Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR In 2013, three radical Black organizers—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi—created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter. It was in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman. The project is now a member-led global network of more than
- [LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions](https://freewaves.org/artist/lace-los-angeles-contemporary-exhibitions/) - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR LACE both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. In doing so, we further dialogue
- [LA LGBT Center](https://freewaves.org/artist/la-lgbt-center/) - LA LGBT Center Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today the Center's more than 600 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global
- [LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography](https://freewaves.org/artist/lacp-los-angeles-center-of-photography/) - LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography Back to LOVE &/OR FEAR LACP will be represented by a curated selection of photographs in their gallery at 1515 Wilcox Ave and by a video, called Alex (I Am A Seahorse) by T.M. Felderstein, projected on Schrader Street. The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), a 501(c)3
- [Elana Mann and Las Fotos Project](https://freewaves.org/artist/elana-mann-and-las-fotos-project/) - Elana Mann and Las Fotos Project Back to Ain't I A Woman Elana Mann and Las Fotos will be creating a custom photo booth where audience members can amplify their own thoughts on gender and equality. Elana Mann (b. 1980, Boston, MA) creates artwork that brings a greater consciousness to the listening and speaking we
- [Audience](https://freewaves.org/artist/audience/) - Audience Back to Ain't I A Woman Of our audience of 2000 people, here are a few that our photographers Saki Alia Shabaik and Monica Orozco documented.
- [Patty Schemel and Object as Subject](https://freewaves.org/artist/patty-schemel-and-objects-as-subjects/) - Patty Schemel and Objects as Subjects Back to Ain't I A Woman our closing acoustic act! OBJECT AS SUBJECT is an LA-based art punk band led by classical violinist turned punk singer, Paris Hurley (composition, vox, drums, dance // Kultur Shock). This feminist battle cry is a call to action fueled by raw wailing vocals, a barrage of
- [Thinh Nguyen](https://freewaves.org/artist/thinh-nguyen/) - Thinh Nguyen Back to Ain't I A Woman We Are Family is an endurance public performance where Thinh Nguyen jogs around the Los Angeles State Historic Park with a flag made out of silver thermo blanket which states, "We Are Family." The performance is ignited by the refugee crisis in Europe and at the US border.
- [Christy Roberts Berkowitz](https://freewaves.org/artist/christy-roberts-berkowitz/) - Christy Roberts Berkowitz Back to Ain't I A Woman Letdown, 2018, invites participants to act as surrogate agents for continuously devolving states of compromise and continuously evolving states of inspiration. Artist, educator, agitator, and emotional laborer, Christy Roberts Berkowitz, composes experiences, images, and objects that attempt to reconcile the intersections of resistance and escapism, expectation
- [Nao Bustamante and Marcus Kuiland-Nazario](https://freewaves.org/artist/nao-bustamante-and-marcus-kuiland-nazario/) - Nao Bustamante and Marcus Kuiland-Nazario Back to Ain't I A Woman Gender Reveal Party Extravaganza Nao Bustamante is an internationally known artist, originally from California; she now resides in Los Angeles. Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing. The New York Times says, "She has a knack for using
- [Elana Mann](https://freewaves.org/artist/elana-mann/) - Elana Mann Back to Ain't I A Woman Elana Mann and Las Fotos will be creating a custom photo booth where audience members can amplify their own thoughts on gender and equality. Elana Mann (b. 1980, Boston, MA) creates artwork that brings a greater consciousness to the listening and speaking we practice in everyday life
- [Las Fotos Project](https://freewaves.org/artist/las-fotos-project/) - Las Fotos Project Back to Ain't I A Woman Las Fotos Project and Elana Mann will be creating a custom photo booth where audience members can amplify their own thoughts on gender and equality. Las Fotos Project is a community-based nonprofit organization that inspires teenage girls through photography, mentorship, and self-expression. Offering year-round programming, we
- [Rudy Bleu Garcia](https://freewaves.org/artist/rudy-bleu-garcia/) - Rudy Bleu Garcia Back to Ain't I A Woman Rudy "Bleu" Garcia is a 1st generation Los Angeles born and raised Chicano Queer. He is a Mover, Shaker, Organizer, Curator, Zine maker, and gal about town. Known for work with Maricón Collective, bands such as $3Puta and Hot N' Heavy, clubs such as Outré, La
- [Janice Gomez & Fatima Hoang](https://freewaves.org/artist/janice-gomez-fatima-hoang/) - Janice Gomez & Fatima Hoang Back to Ain't I A Woman Rock and a Hard Place, 2018 “At times, we may find ourselves trapped in between. Rock and a Hard Place forces that space open; wider; possibilities seeping in; turning in on itself.” Playing to predefined gender roles makes no sense. It’s not to say
- [Raquel Gutiérrez](https://freewaves.org/artist/raquel-gutierrez/) - Raquel Gutiérrez Back to Ain't I A Woman Raquel Gutiérrez has long been a writer and live performer. She is a film actor, curator, publisher (Econo Textual Objects, established 2014), playwright, arts administrator, and community organizer. She writes about art, culture, music, film, performance and community building and creates original solo and ensemble performance compositions.
- [Rafa Esparza](https://freewaves.org/artist/rafa-esparza/) - Rafa Esparza Back to Ain't I A Woman Xipe Totec: the flaying of man, embodies renewal and birth, a battle with the natural and the machine - a queer body and a lowrider car; where shedding skin can also be a pealing away the edges of an orifice, a portal, to reveal a body and
- [Jennifer Moon & KCHUNG](https://freewaves.org/artist/jennifer-moon-kchung/) - Jennifer Moon & KCHUNG Back to Ain't I A Woman Conceptual artist Jennifer Moon was born in 1973 in Lafayette, Indiana, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She completed her BA at University of California, Los Angeles and her MFA at Art Center College of Design. Following a significant transformation in her formal art
- [Austin Young](https://freewaves.org/artist/austin-young/) - Austin Young Back to Ain't I A Woman Portraits of "Ladies" Austin Young is more accurately described as an image-maker: his projects illustrate the sublime qualities of character that make celebrated people unique. Based on a nuanced visual language of pop-culture iconography, his trademark style and techniques have captured a broad palate of musicians, artists
- [#SNATCHPOWER](https://freewaves.org/artist/snatch-power/) - #SNATCHPOWER Back to Ain't I A Woman Ain’t I’ma Snatch by a post apocalyptic, Black Indigenous, Femme Liberation Artist Collective #SNATCHPOWER is deliberate and fearless. We are diverse in how we define ourselves in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and religion, but united in our commitment to self-definition, self-expression, self-governance,
- [Amitis Motevalli](https://freewaves.org/artist/amitis-motevalli/) - Amitis Motevalli Back to Ain't I A Woman Amitis Motevalli is an artist born in Iran. She explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and war. Her experience as a working-class trans-national migrant, is foundational to her drive for creating art. Through many mediums including, sculpture, video, performance and collaborative
- [Yozmit Walker](https://freewaves.org/artist/yozmit-walker/) - Yozmit Walker Back to Ain't I A Woman Yozmit is a Los Angeles based singer song writer, visual, performance artist. Through the ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown
- [Kristina Wong](https://freewaves.org/artist/kristina-wong/) - Kristina Wong Back to Ain't I A Woman Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, and hopefully with your vote, a future disgraced Politician. After touring the world with original stage and guerilla performance, Kristina realized her artful spectacles could no longer compete with the shock of real life. So she's decided to have the
- [Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga & Young Joon Kwak)](https://freewaves.org/artist/xina-xurner-marvin-astorga-young-joon-kwak/) - Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga & Young Joon Kwak) Back to Ain't I A Woman Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga + Young Joon Kwak) are Los Angeles-based artists, performers, and collaborators. In 2012, they founded Mutant Salon, a roving salon/platform for collaborative performance and community- building that strives to foster connections between queer, trans, femme, POC, and mutant
- [Bitchface](https://freewaves.org/artist/bitchface/) - Bitchface Back to Ain't I A Woman Daytime Talk Show: We long to understand, we want to think ourselves tolerant, yet we still have so many dumb lingering questions. bitchface is an experimental audio project by Nicole Kelly and Phoebe Unter. NK & Phoebe also produce publications, live events, and a podcast, and have been
- [Martha Carrillo](https://freewaves.org/artist/martha-carrillo/) - Martha Carrillo Back to Ain't I A Woman These dolls were created at Self Help Graphics & Art's 2013 Dia de los Muertos Community Art Workshops, led by Martha Carrillo. Martha Carrillo is a visual and theatrical artist with expertise in prop-making, set decoration, and extensive experience in printmaking and large scale papier-mache objects. Martha is part of Self Help Graphics & Art Barrio Mobile Art Studio team of teaching artists and
- [Reanne Estrada & C. Ree](https://freewaves.org/artist/reanne-estrada-c-ree/) - Reanne Estrada & C. Ree Back to Ain't I A Woman Reanne Estrada is Los Angeles-based visual artist whose practice includes individual studio work in drawing, sculpture and installation, as well as collaborative work in performance, video and photography with Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. and socially-engaged art with Public Matters, a social enterprise for which she
- [Feminist Library on Wheels](https://freewaves.org/artist/feminist-library-on-wheels/) - Feminist Library on Wheels Back to Ain't I A Woman Feminist Library On Wheels (F.L.O.W.) is offering a unique mobile book installation at the event. The Feminist Library On Wheels (F.L.O.W.) is a node of the Women’s Center for Creative Work (WCCW) founded by members Jenn Witte and Dawn Finley, both lifelong bookworms and devoted cyclists. They’re building
- [Dirty Looks](https://freewaves.org/artist/dirty-looks/) - Dirty Looks Back to Ain't I A Woman The Obscured Sky, undoing 8:30 and 9:30 pm video screenings Three film and video artists undo the dichotomies within the spectrum between the collective and the self, the political and the reflexive. These films are shown across from the former site of the Woman’s Building on Spring
- [DIS...MISS](https://freewaves.org/artist/dis-miss/) - DIS...MISS Back to Ain't I A Woman Freewaves commissioned 25 short videos by 5 different artists addressing gendered reactions to traditional upbringings and current culture. They will be screening all evening as a loop. BUKI BODUNRIN Adebukola Bodunrin is a film, video, and installation artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations,
- [Olivia Chumacero](https://freewaves.org/artist/olivia-chumacero/) - Olivia Chumacero Back to Ain't I A Woman Olivia Chumacero is a First Nation being of the Americas. She speaks of our responsibility to the flora and the fauna on our planet Earth. Drawing from her blood memory she practices the indigenous ways of reciprocity. And she says " We the humyn being are not
- [Zines](https://freewaves.org/artist/zines/) - Zines Back to Ain't I A Woman The curated FREE zine selection is an effort to represent experiences about gender, gender identities, feminism, being queer, trans and being a womxn of color. We hope these resources resonate with you on some level. Daisy Noemi is an LA local who has helped organize L.A. Zine Fest
- [Group Bike Ride](https://freewaves.org/artist/group-bike-ride/) - Group Bike Ride Back to Ain't I A Woman Group Bike Ride Lighting up hidden spaces is a participatory bicycle light show that invites all community members to come and dress your bikes for a bike show. Join People for Mobility Justice (fka MCM) for this night ride presented by Metro’s Bicycle Education Safety Training
- [Kiki Xtravaganza](https://freewaves.org/artist/kiki-xtravaganza/) - Kiki Xtravaganza Back to Ain't I A Woman Wardrobe stylist/Designer/Performance Artist/Voguer at Royal House of Xtravaganza
- [Ni Santas](https://freewaves.org/artist/ni-santas/) - Ni Santas Back to Ain't I A Woman Ni Santas is an all women of color collective working to write their history through art, with responsibility to create socially conscious visual narratives. They envision creating a safe space by cultivating a community of womxn free of judgment to nourish our emerging WOC artist to reclaim

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- [Photography](https://freewaves.org/category/photography/)
- [Web Design](https://freewaves.org/category/web-design/)
- [Lion Responses](https://freewaves.org/category/lion-responses/)
- [Lions, Tigers And...](https://freewaves.org/category/lions-tigers-and/)
- [DISMISS](https://freewaves.org/category/dismiss/)

## Tags

- [another tag](https://freewaves.org/tag/another-tag/)
- [awsome](https://freewaves.org/tag/awsome/)
- [great tag](https://freewaves.org/tag/great-tag/)
- [no tag](https://freewaves.org/tag/no-tag/)
- [one tag](https://freewaves.org/tag/one-tag/)
- [some tag](https://freewaves.org/tag/some-tag/)
- [tag one](https://freewaves.org/tag/tag-one/)
- [tag two](https://freewaves.org/tag/tag-two/)

## Project Categories

- [Program Parent](https://freewaves.org/project-type/program/)

## Video galleries

- [example_youtube_videos](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/example_youtube_videos/)
- [sample_wall](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/sample_wall/)
- [Dismiss (Gloria Morán)](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/dismiss-gloria-moran/)
- [Dismiss (Adebukola Bodunrin)](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/dismiss-adebukola-bodunrin/)
- [Dismiss (Meena Nanji with Ovarian Psycos)](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/dismiss-meena-nanji-with-ovarian-psycos/)
- [Dismiss (Caress Reeves)](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/dismiss-caress-reeves/)
- [Dismiss (Mail Order Brides)](https://freewaves.org/video-gallery/dismiss-mail-order-brides/)

## Artist category

- [Aint I A Woman](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/aint-i-a-woman/)
- [Love Fear](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/lovefear/)
- [Love Fear Orgs](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/love-fear-orgs/)
- [X-aMEN-ing](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/x-amen-ing/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Curators](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/x-amen-ing-curators/)
- [X-aMEN-ing Portraits](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/x-amen-ing-portraits/)
- [Heal Hear Here](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/heal-hear-here/)
- [FEMMMES](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/femmmes/)
- [Justice + Art Jam](https://freewaves.org/artist_category/justice-art-jam/)