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
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
“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” That line from Maya Angelou’s poem “Human Family” still resonates more than two decades after it was first published. The AjA Project’s new photography installation at the San Diego Museum of Man, “Inter+FACE,”
People void of a support system and unable to attain financial and emotional stability must sometimes reconcile with the reality of homelessness. The unconventional lifestyles of those who are homeless – often exhibited along neighborhood streets and alleyways – serve to detach and segregate this population from their surrounding communities. The disconnect and lack of
The San Diego Police Department’s main method of providing crime data to the public is through the crimemapping.com web application, according to San Diego Police Lt. Kevin Myer. | Photo Credit: Karla Flores, The AjA Project Kiran Mehta is a high school student and a member of The AjA Project’s YAC Youth Media
At the City Heights Wat Sovannkiri Buddhist Temple on 52nd Street opulent detail and vibrantly colored flags decorate the façade during the Khmer New Year celebration. | Photo Credit: Kiran Mehta Beto Soto and Brent Jensen are high school students and members of The AjA Project’s Youth Advisory Council. Earlier this month the
Monroe Clark Middle School students have been exploring photo techniques such as repetition, rule of thirds, silhouettes and documentary photography through The AjA Project’s PhotoCity class. Students voted on their favorite photos to share with their peers and the local community. “Warrior Pose” by Angelita, age 11. “This picture shows my classmate, Melinee, doing
As The AjA Project team unloaded square panels of wood, acrylic medium, tables and brushes from a parked SUV and began to set-up shop at the City Heights Farmers Market on a recent Saturday, curious passersby stopped to ask, “What are you guys doing?” Josemar Gonzalez, The AjA Project’s graphic designer and story+LINES project contributor, described an
The following article appeared in the June 2013 issue of City Heights Life. Marie Kofod Svensson is a researcher from Denmark who spent six months working with The AjA Project and Karen Organization of San Diego this spring. She was an instructor for the program described below. It’s a Friday afternoon and a group of Karen
