Tag: Media Arts Center
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Dinner Celebrates Volunteers
The Vietnamese-American Community shows the strength of their grasroots movement at their Lunar Year Festival Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. To learn more about the Little Saigon San Diego Foundation visit https://www.littlesaigonsandiego.org. To learn more about their New Lunar Year Tet Festival visit https://lunarnewyearfestival.org. Read more at Speak City Heights http://www.speakcityheights.org Produced by Ernesto Munoz, Media Arts…
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First African Youth Empowerment Conference
When talking about helping refugees from Africa settle into the United States, Justin B. Mudekereza takes special care to meet them where they are. Through his nonprofit organization New Neighbor Relief, he helps refugee families settle into their new home in America. Now that many call City Heights their home, he worked to bring refugees…
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Mural Artists Partner With City Heights Businesses
The first Mural Walk invited people to view mural art highlighting the beauty and diversity of City Heights artists, residents and businesses. Business owner Tysheen Mosley of Sunset Kava says the murals bring creativity, community and beauty. Artists looking for opportunities to bring something good into the community found business owners that welcomed their creativity.…
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Business Enterprise Center Opens in City Heights
Dante Dauz wanted to help young people stay out of gangs and help train them to get jobs. He soon realized that, once students were trained, there were no places for them to work in City Heights. The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) Neighborhood Enterprise Center became a vision and a solution. At the…
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Little Saigon Stories at the Fair at 44
The first installment of Little Saigon Stories brought together people from many walks of life to celebrate and enjoy food, poetry at inaugural multimedia art installation at Fair at 44. Vietnamese-American youth trained on how to capture the people and places of the Little Saigon District in San Diego through photography and film. After two…