Tag: Photography
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Little Saigon Welcomes Visitors For Art, Food And Tours
Little Saigon will be welcoming visitors on April 27 to honor San Diego’s Vietnamese American community.
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Little Saigon Stories at Fair at 44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKOj9iI8rLQ People gathered at the Fair at 44 on a winter afternoon to celebrate the opening of Little Saigon Stories, a collection of stories through photography and film honoring Vietnamese refugees and descendants living and working in San Diego’s Little Saigon District on El Cajon Boulevard. Spoken word artist Viet Mai hosted the evening, inviting…
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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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Family Tradition Survives In Mural Project
The “Community Faces” mural at Market Creek Plaza in southeastern San Diego has come down and will be replaced with a new one showing faces of younger community members. But in one family, the tradition will carry on. | Video Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Claire Trageser The “Community Faces” mural at Market Creek Plaza…
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National Endowment for the Arts Awards Grant to The AJA Project
Asha, 17, took this photo during an AjA Project class. The AjA Project helps refugees like Asha and other youth explore their identities and communities through photography. By Julia Richardson City Heights nonprofit The AjA Project was recommended by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive funding for its PhotoCity program. The NEA awarded…