Events
Homeland & Homemaking Exhibit
Join The AJA Project in bringing The Majdal Center's Homeland & Homemaking youth arts exhibition to City Heights!
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It Takes a Village
Join us for an evening of healing through music, poetry, and storytelling as we reaffirm our solidarity to Palestine and our interconnected struggles through an auditory-sensory experience.
Regardless of the election results, root issues will remain the same. Our responsibility is to remain grounded and continue building and caring for our community amidst the narratives that try to divide us.
It takes the strength of a village to carry this work forward. We hope to see you there!
Date: Saturday, November 9
Time: 5-8PM
Address: 4660 El Cajon Blvd, Suite 106, San Diego CA 92115 (inside Asia Business Center)
Memoria Terra
Come and walk through the memories of City Heights.
For 6 months, AjA's Back Alley Poets reflected on City Heights' rapidly changing neighborhood through poetry — weaving together personal stories and ground-up perspectives.
Join us for an evening of art, performance, food, and set foot on these stories that are now ingrained in the heart of City Heights as part of the Memoria Terra public art project.
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Language of Displacement: Solidarity in San Diego
What does it mean to have the freedom to stay, to move, and to return?
In 1942, the United States incarcerated over 125,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2—including 1150 from San Diego. AjA’s Civil Liberties Project aims to remember this history through art while drawing parallels to the injustices happening today.
With the help of the Japanese American Archival Society of San Diego (JAHSSD), our youth fellows engaged with primary and archival sources that were incorporated into a large scale photo project.
Come view this art exhibit at Ocean View Growing Grounds, commemorating the erased history of San Diego’s Japanese American communities and its ties to the current humanitarian crises happening locally and internationally.
Because from San Diego to Mexico to Palestine, our struggles are interconnected.
Come join us for an afternoon of art, conversation, food, poetry, and mutual aid. Engage in direct collective action by making care packages for migrants and raising money for San Diego mutual aid group We All We Got SD, Palestine, and Sudan.
Agenda:
Community Conversation
Poetry Workshop
Care Packages
Mutual Aid Fundraisers
Civil Liberties Project Showcase
Youth have explored the theme of Civil Liberties and have created art pieces inspired by this topic. We believe that this celebration of creativity will foster connections, inspire conversations, and promote a sense of unity within our community.
"How Did We Get Here?" Book Release at Verbatim Books
Please join us for the release of, "How Did We Get Here?" at Verbatim Books, February 12th, from 6:45-10pm. We will be hosting a panel discussion about the history of City Heights and the making of an original, narrative novel. The Panel will consist of the Founder of The AjA Project, Shinpei Takeda, the Author and Editor Haneen Oriqat, Illustrator Chey Diehl