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THE AJA PROJECT
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, The AjA Project will host a year-long paid media arts fellowship program in which young adults negatively impacted by immigration policy and gentrification forge connections between the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and the civil liberties violations currently plaguing their own communities. Guided by lead artists, youth fellows from the MidCity Community Advocacy Network will connect with internment survivors, draw on the community archive of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego, visit an internment site, and participate in housing rights workshops to identify continuity and change in living histories of state oppression and community resistance. As they gain media production and documentation skills, they will share their learning and expand advocacy via documentaries, zines, and a visual campaign for housing justice.
Organization Summary
The AjA Project has a strong reputation of delivering high-quality, high-impact programs to young people from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds. This includes in-school and after-school programs as well as participatory workshops in collaboration with cross-sector partner organizations. AjA’s programs support young people to process experiences, understand their social and political landscapes and use the arts as a tool for creative self expression and social change. This year we have provided programming to newly arrived refugees, teen mothers, youth in detention, young people in military families, and youth across San Diego. The work at AjA remains grounded in the power of photography and visual arts as a tool for all youth, regardless of background, to see themselves as agents of change. AjA remains committed to igniting individual and social change from a grassroots, creative approach.
Organization
N/A
Address
4504 51st Street
San Diego
92115
County
San Diego
Region
Far South
Phone
(619) 230-5556
Congressional District
California's 51st congressional district
State Assembly District
District 79
State Senate District
District 40
