Public Matters is a creative civic engagement studio that forms strong partnerships through unconventional measures as a way to redress social ills. My involvement as a Fellow in the two-year...
Imagine one day out of the blue somebody asks you, “What motivates you in life?” At first we stutter and think about the question so deeply that we come up...
Neighborhood Stories. Community. Fried Pork Skin. Explore Historic Filipinotown through the voices of the people who know it best! Experience The Chicharrón Chronicles Walking Tours, featuring stories from The Chicharrón Chronicles, a...
Neighborhood Stories. Community. Fried Pork Skin. Experience Historic Filipinotown through the voices of the people who know it best on Saturday, November 23rd - 10am-1pm. Join us for the launch of the...
Images from the three The Chicharrón Chronicles events are now online! Catch up with what happened in Historic Filipinotown in the last few weeks. The Chicharrón Chronicles 01: Mobilize //...
At the conclusion of the 2018-2019 academic year, the METRANS Transportation Center released a series of articles on Greetings from East LA. Each article was dedicated to one of the...
As we conclude this month’s module, I realize that the topic “creative civic engagement” has come to mean many things to me. First and most importantly, it emphasizes the importance...
At least one week leading up to the Fourth of July and even some days afterwards, the city resonates with the loud “BOOM” of illegal fireworks. Annually I become part...
Coming into the Urban Futures Lab Fellowship has been nothing but incredibly exhilarating, and mind blowing. When I first learned about Public Matters last summer when I was at a...
// public conversations // screenings // story-gathering // The Chicharrón Chronicles is a cross-cultural story- gathering project in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Teasing out the bonds that can form over fried...