WELCOME TO OUR SUMMER 2011 SEMESTER
Shared Stories Youth Program Launched
This Summer, we have officially launched Shared Stories after the Spring pilot program being a great success. This program educates and empowers youth to document immigration stories directly from their communities. The students came to this country 2 to 11 years ago and now live in Manhattan Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island. Each week there have been workshops, field trips and discussions about Asian American history, identity, workers rights, immigrant rights, art and culture. They have learned to use the written and spoken word. They have written about the immigrant experience in their own blog. In the coming weeks they will move on to community, involvement, and action.
This Summer, we have officially launched Shared Stories after the Spring pilot program being a great success. This program educates and empowers youth to document immigration stories directly from their communities. The students came to this country 2 to 11 years ago and now live in Manhattan Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island. Each week there have been workshops, field trips and discussions about Asian American history, identity, workers rights, immigrant rights, art and culture. They have learned to use the written and spoken word. They have written about the immigrant experience in their own blog. In the coming weeks they will move on to community, involvement, and action.
Program Goals:
1. Our program goals are two-fold. First, we will build community and discuss how social, political, and historical circumstances have shaped Asian American communities. Second, we will learn to be community advocates by collecting oral histories from immigrants and creating powerful stories that others will read.
2. We seek to achieve these goals by becoming comfortable bloggers and by sharing our unique stories. In this class, we will identify different kinds of writing styles and work to develop a knowledge-base of effective writing strategies, including persuasive writing such as Op-Eds. We will also learn how to ask the right questions and answer them ourselves, how to start a dialogue, and find a central theme around which to build your story.
1. Our program goals are two-fold. First, we will build community and discuss how social, political, and historical circumstances have shaped Asian American communities. Second, we will learn to be community advocates by collecting oral histories from immigrants and creating powerful stories that others will read.
2. We seek to achieve these goals by becoming comfortable bloggers and by sharing our unique stories. In this class, we will identify different kinds of writing styles and work to develop a knowledge-base of effective writing strategies, including persuasive writing such as Op-Eds. We will also learn how to ask the right questions and answer them ourselves, how to start a dialogue, and find a central theme around which to build your story.