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"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

Film: Hyampom Oral History Project

Hyampom Oral History Project - Community Stories Grant

The Hyampom Oral History Project received a Community Stories grant to record the stories of several elders of diverse backgrounds in the Siskiyou County community of Hyampom.

Film: The Polk Gulch Oral History Project

The Polk Gulch Oral History Project

When a new wave of urban gentrifiers infiltrate a historically disenfranchised LGBT San Francisco community conflicts and tensions abound. Can they find a way to live together harmoniously or will war […]

TRAILER: The Worlds of Bernice Bing

The Worlds of Bernice Bing - Community Stories

The Worlds of Bernice Bing is a lush tribute to this little-known California master artist and activist, who helped reshape the San Francisco art world in the ’60s and ’70s.

Film: From The Quarters to Lincoln Heights

From the Quarters to Lincoln Heights - California Documentaries Project

Experience a taste of the documentary From the Quarters to Lincoln Heights, which delves into the story of how thousands of African Americans came to work in Northern California’s lumber mills nearly a hundred years ago and explores the multi-racial rural towns they called home.

Film: Everything Comes from the Streets

Cars are always vehicles, but when do they become vehicles for organizing communities, celebrating history, and taking pride in one’s cultural heritage?

Veterans Stories Highlighted in Wild Blue Yonder

Like much of California, the cultural and physical landscape of the Inland Empire, home to such iconic places as March Air Reserve Base, Norton Air Base, and Riverside National Cemetery, […]

From Red State to Golden State

From Red State to Golden State

Moving from one country to another is always challenging, but what happens when immigrants leave behind one economic and political system for a wholly different one? From Red State to […]

Of the Sea

Struggling to revive a fading way of life, fishermen and entrepreneurs are creating new models for how to support sustainably produced seafood. Of the Sea, an upcoming film by Mischa Hedges, […]

Camp to Campus

Camp to Campus

This Bakersfield Eyewitness News coverage of Camp to Campus, which premiered at CSU Bakersfield in February, gives a taste of the inspirational stories featured in the documentary. Funded through a Community Stories grant to […]

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