Category: News
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Health Center Works With Restaurants to Improve Nutrition
Sang Dao, a restaurant serving Thai and Lao cuisine, has been partnering with Health center Operation Samahan to serve nutritional menu items. By Brian Myers Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders are disproportionately likely to develop diabetes and at lower weights and younger ages. Health center Operation Samahan partners with local ethnic restaurants to provide nutrition counseling…
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Teen Producers: City Farmers Nursery
By Teen Producers Project Youth filmmakers in the Media Arts Center’s Teen Producers Project create short documentaries with Bill Tall “Farmer Bill” and son Sam Tall of City Farmers Nursery, a local business that supports urban agriculture and surrounding gardens. “City Farmers Nursery supports not only me, but all of my friends and neighbors who…
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“Collective Voices” a blog post by AjA Project Interns Namu S. & Bethlehem D.
Collective Voices, a nine month AjA Project that highlighted the identities of eighteen young City Heights residents through photography, was done in partnership with Doris Duke and The United Women of East Africa. This blog post, written by AjA’s student interns, seeks to share some details and events from their nine month process and to…
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Teen Producers: Wasted – Combating Waste on Campus
Teen Producers Project Youth filmmakers in the Media Arts Center’s Teen Producers Project create a short documentary on urban waste and the impact it has on the ocean and wildlife. This video includes an informative interviews with students and teachers at Hoover High School, as well as, staff at Ocean Discovery Institute and San Diego…
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Teen Producers: Ocean Discovery Institute
Teen Producers Project Youth filmmakers in the Media Arts Center’s Teen Producers Project create a short documentary on the Ocean Discovery Institute’s science center in City Heights. This video includes an informative interview with staff at Ocean Discovery Institute about their role in the neighborhood. Ocean Discovery Institute is an environmental conservation organization in City…