Community Engagement invites you to a free, outdoor screening of Spencer Wilkinson’s documentary Alice Street on Saturday, July 31 at 8:00 pm in Santa Ana, CA.
When the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural that is a source of neighborhood pride, the artists and neighbors rally to protect its history, voice, and land. See the power that art and culture have in creating community engagement in the riveting documentary Alice Street.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Spencer Wilkinson, moderator Andrés F. Rivera, and Santa Ana artists Roger Eyes, Gene Jimenez, Jonathan Martinez, Maria Reyna, and Alicia Rojas, who will discuss the film and the importance that placemaking art has in our communities.
DATE
Saturday, July 31, 2021
TIME
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Event begins at 8:00 pm
WHERE
Parking Garage Rooftop
300 E. 5th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701
COST
Free. Registration required (see form below)
Suggested donation: $15 per person
PARKING
Parking available in structure. Standard rates apply.
WHAT TO BRING
Bring a blanket, towel, LOW-BACK chair, or anything else you need to get comfy and enjoy a movie under the stars! Picnic baskets and outside food are welcome, though keep in mind that there are several fantastic neighboring restaurants that will be open to get your food needs handled!
WHAT NOT TO BRING
Alcohol and smoking are prohibited at the Parking Structure. Please be courteous to your fellow audience members -- if you are planning to bring chairs, bring LOW-BACK chairs so as to not block the folks behind you.
COVID/MASK POLICY
If you have not been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, we ask that you protect yourself and those around you by wearing a mask at this event. If you have been vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus, defined as having received the full and final dose of your selected vaccine over two weeks ago, you are not obligated to wear a mask -- though you are welcome and encouraged to do so if you choose to. If you are not feeling well, or have a fever, we ask that you stay home, rest, and get well!
ALICE STREET PANELISTS
Spencer Wilkinson
Filmmaker
After a decade working with gang-involved and homeless youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spencer Wilkinson founded Endangered Ideas, a documentary production company in Oakland, CA, to focus on stories of resilience. Spencer directed the feature length ONE VOICE: The Story of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (2018), which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It was featured on the PBS NewsHour’s ‘Brief But Spectacular’ series, one of East Bay Express’ Top Movies of 2018, and selected by the 2020 Truly CA series on KQED. Spencer directed Alice Street (2020) which premiered at Newport Beach Film Festival. The film won the ‘Audience Choice Award for Feature Documentary’ at the 2020 Oakland International Film Festival and ‘Social Impact Award’ at Thin Line Film Festival.
Andrés F. Rivera
Santa Ana Artist
Moderator
Andrés F. Rivera is a Colombian-born multidisciplinary self-taught artist, living in Orange County, California. He participates in immigrant rights movements and teaches part-time at Mt. San Antonio College. In his art, he uses multiple mediums creating an intersection of body form and abstraction. His work is inspired by Latin America folklore, Indigenous Cosmovision and biodiversity. Through the use of fine lines and surface patterns he focuses on creating bold colorful work showcasing his Colombian heritage and its biodiversity.
Roger Eyes
Santa Ana Artist
Multidisciplinary artist, Roger Eyes R. has been a working professional artist since 2003. He began with mostly graffiti, (art)studies and commission work after art school, and it wasn't long before he began showing at private functions and group art shows in Orange and L.A. counties. By 2010, he began to focus on his hometown of Santa Ana, CA and became a member and Lead Artist of the Santa Ana Community Artist(a) Coalition, which connects and engages communities in need throughout the Southland through mural and art workshops. He has worked with a number of charities, public-charters, and nonprofits and is an Art Instructor with Orange County's Children's Therapeutic Art Center. Currently, he is working in a hybrid painting style all his own – Pop Impressionism – a hard study of movement through color and texture.
Gene Jimenez
Santa Ana Artist
Born in Santa Ana, artist GENE’s art reflects both pride in his Mexican-American roots, as well as his family’s history in settling Southern California. With vibrant energy and vivid colors jumping from the canvas, GENE draws inspiration from simple movement and the beauty of the human form, capturing the energy and rhythm of the moment, individual and whole. GENE’s images evoke not only the motion of the body, but also the intangible movements of the wind, atmosphere, energy and the music that make up the dance of life. GENE has shown in galleries from California to New York, in solo exhibits as well as group shows. His art studio gallery is located in the historic Santa Ana's Artist Village.
Jonathan Martinez
Santa Ana Artist
Known as “Art of Endangered,” Jonathan Martinez’ artistic journey began ten years ago and since that time, he has stayed true to what has become his signature style: vibrant colors that seem to move, envelop and uplift the beauty of the wildlife he paints. Dedicated to painting wildlife exclusively, with every piece, Jonathan celebrates the natural world as he also calls on us, to protect it. paints in a variety of mediums. Notable collaborations include partnerships with the City of Santa Ana, the Santa Ana Unified School District, the United Way, and team-ups with the National Wildlife Federation and General Pencil Company. In 2020, Martinez kicked-off a long-term, creative collaboration with the National Wildlife Federation that resulted in a special mural dedicated to inner-city students, teachers and families.
Maria Reyna
Santa Ana Artist
Maria Reyna is a visual artist who unabashedly pursues her passions as a painter, photographer, poet and art instructor. Her two passions in life are art and children, with an aptitude to teach the value of art. Maria’s current work includes paintings and mix media art, recycled art, crafts, jewelry design and teaching. Her purpose as an artist is to create, teach and give back to her community.
Alicia Rojas
Santa Ana Artist
Alicia Rojas is a Colombian-born artist, living in Orange County, CA. She participates in movements of immigrant rights, anti-gentrification, social economic equity and ecology. Her practice has a collaborative and storytelling process in which paintings, drawings, photographs, performance and murals are not the end result but rather part of her artmaking pedagogy. She is the Director and Co-founder of the Santa Ana Community Artist(a) Coalition, which connects local artists to their communities in a collaborative process to create art that transforms public spaces, generates civic engagement, and promotes personal and social change. Alicia is a new artist-in-residence for Grand Central Art Center and her upcoming project is being supported and funded by the Andy Warhol Grant.