Category: Refugees
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New Call Center Encourages Apprehensive Immigrants To Complete The Census
“Community messengers” in City Heights try to advise immigrants who may not trust or understand the census.
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San Diego Culinary Program Takes On Hunger, Waste And Barriers To Employment
A San Diego program sets out to give people dubbed “unemployable” the skills to break a cycle of poverty.
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Lantern Festival brings people from different cultures together
This Fall 2019, people from different cultural backgrounds come together at the first annual City Heights Lantern Festival, hosted by Vien Dong and World Foods Market. Even though traditionally the Mid-Autumn Festival is traditionally celebrated by cultures who follow the lunar calendar, the intention was to make this event be a celebration of being a…
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City Heights Mortuary Featured In San Diego’s Asian Film Festival
A documentary set in a Vietnamese mortuary in San Diego’s City Heights explores the themes of culture, identity and grief.
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Culture Report: Refugee and Immigrant Stories Take the Big Screen
The San Diego Asian Film Festival celebrates 20 years of showcasing pop culture films, documentaries, dramas and shorts, San Diego Museum of Art opens a Bouguereau exhibition and more arts and culture news.