The Great Wall of Los Angeles (SPARC), featuring interns Anna and Holly

This video features SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center) interns Anna and Holly, as they explore the Great Wall of Los Angeles and help restore it to it's original state; ensuring "a new generation of young people get introduced to the wall everyday".

The Great Wall of Los Angeles Project was created and directed by California Chicana muralist Judy Baca, SPARC's Founder/Artistic Director.

Currently, SPARC is restoring and preserving "The Great Wall of Los Angeles" mural, a half-mile long monument and a landmark to the history of America and California from prehistoric times to the 1950's.

Begun in 1976 and completed over five summers, the Great Wall employed over 400 youth and their families from diverse, social and economic backgrounds working with artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds of community members. "The Great Wall" is painted on a half -mile section of the concrete retaining wall of the Tujunga Wash in the San Fernando Valley.

This video is produced by Youth CineMedia, Inc. © 2011.
Associate producer Gonzalo Rios, original music by Keith Jimenez.
Directed & edited by Osiris Castañeda
www.youthcinemedia.org

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