2023 What is Love in the Time of Hate? AAPI Youth PhotoVoice Project

Workshop Learning Objectives:

• Gain experience in working and learning from and with a student collective/community
• Learn about the similarities and differences in immigration history, cultural practices, and everyday struggles of different ethnic groups within the larger Asian American & Pacific Islander communities
• Tell stories through photography and writing
• Learn about and conduct oral history interviews
• Organize and curate a photography exhibit
• Create, design, and disseminate photographs and stories via digital and physical platforms
• Improve public speaking skills

Program Schedule (Tentative)

The following session below are optional for students who wish to participate in conference and community presentations:

Note: The program instructors will hold optional weekday sessions over Zoom to assist students with their projects and to answer questions about the workshop material.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the workshop's primary instructor, Phuc To (pdto@ucsd.edu).

The Asian American Youth Leaders 2.0 is a youth leadership program developed in partnership between the South Coast Chinese Cultural Association (SCCCA) in Irvine and the Humanities Center at the University of California Irvine.

The aim of the program is to:

• Cultivate the next generation of Asian American leaders who can contribute to the social dialogue in developing just and equitable solutions to social challenges and needs.
• Develop leadership skill sets necessary to participate in civic engagement activities and effect positive change in society.
• Broadly increase awareness within the Asian American community on the shared and disparate histories of immigration by the various Asian ethnic and cultural groups.
• Increase and promote contributions of Asian Americans in the United States.

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