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Ours To Lose: a radio play by Yia Lee, produced by... me (Dawn)

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Ours To Lose: a radio play by Yia Lee, produced by... me (Dawn)

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Podcast 7: Ours To Lose - Cal Ag Roots Podcast | Ximalaya International Edition Himalaya

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Podcast 7: Ours To Lose - Cal Ag Roots Podcast

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Summer Residency Reading: Mai Der Vang and Anthony Cody

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Hmong refugees use Sunisa Lee's Olympic win to educate young people about group's history

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Impact | Untold Stories of Valley Communities

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4) Collectively Planned and Created Event & Zine

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4) Collectively Planned and Created Event & Zine

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Using all the creative works you have made and any creative work you made with community members, we will plan a celebration of our communities, inviting all those you interviewed, the artists who taught us, and leadership and families.

The event will have food and music.

It is a chance to show your work to the community and to take a big sigh after the hard work you did.

Your art will be displayed, music heard, films showed, poems and stories read aloud and as much as possible will be gathered together in a zine (folded and stapled magazine). We will make 500 copies of the zine and distribute them all over the Central Valley.

You will make the zine together and/or with one of our visiting artists.

This event will be the week of December 5th at a time when the majority of you will be able to come (I will send out a scheduler so we can find that time).

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Part of the grant funding I have is to purchase materials for your project if needed--paint, canvases, paper, etc.

We can use class time to work on these, which is similar to how a studio art class works (except they are 4 hours).

Art/Creative Writing/Music/Film making is messy. You can make mistakes and fix and revise.

Creating: November 8th-November 29

Final Project Due: December 1

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But I'm Scared/Shy/Don't Know How to Do This

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But I'm Scared/Shy/Don't Know How to Do This

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Yeah, I know. . .

1) I will teach you how to write a description of what you are doing and why you want to meet with the community. Everyone will write a project description (about a paragraph long) and I will help you revise it so it's clear and makes the community members trust you.
2) I can make introductions so it's not so scary, either via email or text (if I know the people you want to talk to)
3) I can help you figure out who to talk to and help get you in touch.
4) You can work as a group and have the extrovert be the point of contact. BUT YOU ALL HAVE TO BE AT THE INTERVIEWS. :-)
5) It's really important that you find ways to talk to strangers and engage with the world. This is harder for everyone after the pandemic and we all have a lot of trauma. I will help you with social anxiety relief practices and we will all make it through together!

Project description: Due September 29th (will work on in class the 27th and the 29th)

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1) First of all, we are all, we were born creative. Living in the world takes a lot of creativity and kids play and live in imagination constantly. If you feel like you aren't creative, it's just because it was taught out of you and you have to re-connect with the creative spark you were born with.

2) Secondly, we will be having 7 creative artists coming to talk about their work and give you a lesson in working in their media: poetry, film, graphic art, playwriting, painting, music/songwriting, and photography. These workshops will happen mostly in the month of October, while you are also doing your interviews/story collecting.

3) We will be looking at and reading samples of community-based creative work, so you can learn from what others have done.

4) I am a specialist in helping people return to or find their creativity

You are welcome to work in a form different than these or do an arts mash up (hybrid) form of art.

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3) Make Creative Work About and/or with the Community

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3) Make Creative Work About and/or with the Community

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After collecting histories, research, and first hand stories from community members, you will choose an creative form or creative / hybrid forms and help tell/elevate the story of the community in that form. The goal is to celebrate the community and accurately portray their values and joys and challenges and actions. You do not have to make this documentary-style, where you only use their words verbatim.

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Collecting Stories from Community Members

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Collecting Stories from Community Members

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We will practice different techniques of gathering stories from community members: story circles, conversations, interviews, written responses to questions. We will discuss how to record what they share with you--notetaking, audio recording, video--and how to get permissions.

You will choose one or a combination of methods to gather stories.

Story gathering / interview notes or recordings due:
November 8th

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We will be learning two types of research in this class: library research & field research. The field research will involve going into the community and taking down stories from the community you will be doing your project on.

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We will have a library research training. You will start to gather, read, and take notes on materials about the community you are interviewing. The librarians and I can help.

Library Research Reports due October 6th, further research as needed.

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Call a community leader, tell them what you are doing and that you would love to have conversations with community members.

Schedule a date/dates for story circles/conversations/
interviews.

Confirm with me that you have scheduled interviews/conversations by: October 6 (you do not have to do the interviews before then, just have the dates on the calendar)

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Examples of Central Valley Communities (a tiny sampling):

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Examples of Central Valley Communities (a tiny sampling):

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Hmong Refugees

Japanese Internment Camp Survivors

Unhoused people

Recovery community (addicts & alcoholics in recovery)

Farmworkers

Union leaders

Undocumented folx

Women in agriculture

The people who own the cows

Indigenous (Miwok & Yokut tribes) folx

People working with food insecurity

People working on sustainability

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Choose a community you already know or want to know about

or

Choose from list Dawn offers

or

Brainstorm with Dawn to find a community that you are eager to learn about

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of people to interview that is located in the Central Valley

Due date: September 27

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this is the process of your projects