Description
Take Me to Your River: A Cultural Atlas of the LA River, is a three-year collective history and cultural mapping project initiated by the Los Angeles-based arts organization Clockshop. Take Me to Your River aims to celebrate the diverse experiences of those who call Northeast LA home. In specific, neighborhoods that surround the Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River, including Elysian Valley, Atwater Village, Cypress Park, and Glassell Park.
Celebrate the stories in these neighborhoods with a Take Me to Your River tote.
This postcard pack includes 5 postcards with photographs from the cultural atlas. Use them to share your own notes from the Los Angeles River with your loved ones.
Fight For Flight shirt
For Clockshop’s fourth annual Community & Unity People’s Kite Festival, artist Yaeun Stevie Choi presents Fight for Flight. Her kites honor three animal species native to Los Angeles; the El Segundo blue butterfly, Least Bell’s vireo, and North American cougar; to advocate for their right to thrive and share these lands alongside us. The Korean fighter kite, Choi’s chosen form, was the subject of a ban on kite-flying during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the early 1900s. Despite this, kitemakers persevered, using their creations to call attention to colonial transgressions against their freedom and the environment. Choi’s kites uphold these legacies of connection between people, land, and the liberatory struggle against dispossession and extraction, and the form itself becomes a vehicle for ecological protest here and everywhere.
Our “Protect Public Skies” shirt takes inspiration from Choi’s Fight for Flight kites.
All sizes are gender-neutral.
We do not ship this item internationally.
