Tag: The AjA Project
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The AjA project is looking for an Illustrator
Project Description: In partnership with Urban Habitat, the AjA Project’s “How Did We Get Here” Comic Book will tell the story of City Heights to create illustrations about health, school lunches, immigration and other important community concerns. AjA seeks a professional artist with comic book experience to work with middle to high school aged youth…
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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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Youth Reclaim Public Space From Gangs With Mural
In partnership with the Karen Organization, The AjA Project ran a nine-month program with young Southeast Asian refugee women called Photographers for Change (P4C). During the program, 15 Karen participants, ages 13 to 18 years old,in City Heights and Los Angeles’ historic Filipinotown used photography to reflect on their experiences of migration and resettlement, explore…
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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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The AjA Project to Confront Migrant Debate With Airport Mural
The AjA Project interviews and photographs a refugee woman living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego in this undated photo. | Photo Courtesy of The AjA Project By Megan Burks With the fatal terrorist attack in San Bernardino Wednesday and the massacre in Paris earlier this month, Americans are taking a hard look…