Category: Featured
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Summer Soccer League Supports Refugee Girls
Girls Outdoors Achieving Leadership Skills or GOALS is a summer soccer league hosted by the International Rescue Committee for refugee girls living in San Diego. Video by Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project, Summer 2018: Bethlehem Artrie, Lucy Ellison, Christina Arias, and Trevonce Espiritu. Instructors: Joshua Salaises and Brian Jenkins.
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Little Saigon To Get Cultural Landmark Sign On I-15 Freeway
The Legislature is expected to push forward a plan to direct motorists from the freeway to the Little Saigon Cultural and Commercial District in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood.
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How City Heights Is Trying To Protect Its Multicultural Roots
City Heights groups want to tap a state tool to protect the community’s residents and businesses, in the face of San Diego’s booming housing market and looming gentrification.
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Traditional Weaving Workshops Explore Karen Refugee Culture and Artisans
Presented by the Karen Organization of San Diego (KOSD) on July 13, Karen elders led a weaving workshop making traditional clothing at the refugee community center. A nonprofit community organization, KOSD is committed to community building and educational opportunities for refugees displaced from Myanmar, previously Burma, who now reside in San Diego. Nya Paw is…
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Taco-Centric Fiesta Highlights Diversity In City Heights
Tacos, culture and community — that’s the focus of the monthly Fiesta on the Avenue event in the Mid-City neighborhood.