Join Being At Home project and The AjA Project for a community art event highlighting the work of 20+ youth and artists based in City Heights! The event will consist of activities and performances around the topic of HOME: - Collaborative art installation - Welcome Home photo book release - Live poetry reading - Youth
Little Saigon will be welcoming visitors Saturday to honor the San Diego Vietnamese-American community. The event coincides with what they call "Black April." The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam War. It will feature a pop-up gallery that will showcase "Little Saigon Stories." It's a multimedia project that documents the
Undeterred is a film about increased border security and community resistance in Arivaca, Arizona which has received awards from Social Justice Film Festival and Impact Doc Awards. The screening will begin at 5pm. Following the screening there will be a panel consisting of the Undeterred film staff and community members impacted by the current border
The AjA Project is a local nonprofit providing photography-based programming to transform the lives of youth and communities by putting youth at the heart of driving social justice efforts in their own communities. On the show today is AjA Project Teaching Artist, Rizzhel Javier and Program Coordinator and Teaching Artist, Cat Coppenrath.
Join The AjA Project, San Diego Art Institute, and the United Women of East Africa for the opening evening of Collective Voices: The Power of Empathy! This exhibition is a FREE event for the community! The mission of the Collective Voices program is to express the pride we have in ourselves, give young Muslim girls
San Diego County CA— The San Diego Women’s Foundation (SDWF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring women to engage in collective philanthropy, raised over $2,000 for The AjA Project. The funds were raised at the Foundation’s annual “Holiday Party with a Purpose” celebration. The members-only party was hosted by SDWF board member
On Sunday morning, Edsel Ariel Benitez got a familiar call from his boss, urging him to come into work and relieve the other cook at the San Diego KFC. For the 19-year-old community college student, who was born in San Diego and lives in Tijuana, picking up a shift means navigating the largest land
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are featuring one recent Humanities for All grantee’s project, Border Click. Josemar Gonzalez, co-founder of Border Click, shares more about this project that connects two nations (Tijuana and San Diego) through art and conversation. What was your goal for Border Click? The goal of Border Click was to create a digital living archive
"BorderClick" es una iniciativa de archivo de imágenes en su mayoría captadas por jóvenes que residen en México y estudian o trabajan en Estados Unidos, algunas de las cuales se han incluido en una exhibición inaugurada recientemente en la ciudad californiana. El proyecto digital muestra las historias de quienes cada día se levantan temprano
