Journey
Teaching Artists Famo Musa + Alejandro Arreguin Villegas
JOURNEY
Journey participants use their photography skills to address themes such as identity, resettlement, migration, home, culture and community. Through this process, Journey participants create a stronger sense of community and learn to value the unique worldview that each person brings into the space. Often times, participants do not have an opportunity to build these values and important sense of community during their traditional academic school day, so having a safe after-school environment to do so is critical to the participants’ overall well-being.
Share.
Share your story and contribute to a larger archive of memories that acts as a mirror of our community experiences. Join one of our FREE monthly sessions and learn how to use Zoom as a tool for creative storytelling.
Submit.
Upload a video of your story and we can add it to our online library that will live on our website. Our goal is to contribute to a public exhibition of stories to be shared via Instagram or virtual exhibition.
Listen.
Get the chance to learn more about your community though the stories they share. Hear the the voices from residents of San Diego, Tijuana and beyond. Travel with us across the globe while listening to stories about home.
JOURNEY IS ABOUT RESILIENCE
The AjA Project responded immediately to COVID-19 and pivoted one of our most important programs to the virtual environment. To learn more about the history of Journey visit the Journey Archive here.
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Your recording will be used as part of a larger project called Journey, when you share your video to this number, you are providing The AjA Project permission to include your video in this collaborative project. Journey is a program that highlights refugee and migrant stories.
Journey 2020.
We pivoted our staple program to meet the needs of our community during the pandemic. Out facilitated discussions are healing and helpful for the community to share their experience and find community. Learn more about Journey and how to bring it to your community, school group or program.
20 years of Journey.
This curriculum uses photography and art as a tool for self-reflection on identity, culture, self-expression, and integration to a new country and/or community. This process of collective self-exploration is designed to validate and empower the participants’ experience and provide an avenue for self-guided growth. The curriculum uses art therapy methodology to support students to grow their self-esteem, improve teamwork, and be leaders in the spaces they are in.
