Senior workshops at Hoover High

Connect SD was invited to do senior workshops at Hoover High in City Heights today, on the topic of "Media Arts & Social Justice." We focused on three topics: multiculturalism, intergenerationalism, and social justice, and then discussed how media arts ties into everything. We did three sessions from 8:40am to 12:15pm in their auditorium, with 50-60 students per session. I'm glad to say that it was a very successful event, and we reached over 150+ seniors! Hopefully they learned the importance of arts & culture from our workshop and are able to incorporate multiculturalism, intergenerationalism, and social justice into their daily lives. Congrats to Wendy and Karla for doing an awesome job facilitating!

"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" at Teralta Park

We held our 2nd outdoor screening at Teralta Park on April 1st with a screening of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Over 300+ people showed! Even City Councilmember Todd Gloria came out to welcome the crowd before the movie started.

Bridget from City Heights Business Association getting ready to pop the popcorn

Eric from City Heights CDC prepping the generator

The "Voices of City Heights" crew (aka Cami, Karla, Mike, and Phuong)
getting ready to do some interviews of residents in the community

Once it started getting dark...
Interviewing City Councilmember Todd Gloria

The popcorn line that never ends

Phil and Eric introducing the film

The crowd. Even more people trickled in as it got darker...

The big screen

Our next screening at Teralta Park will be on Friday, April 29th. Festivities will start at 7pm where we'll have activities for the kids until it's dark enough to start the screening. We'll be showing "Wall-E," so please come out! =)

Focus Group: Discussing Multi-culturalism, Inter-generationalism, and Social Justice

On March 29th, we had the pleasure of gathering with some organizations in City Heights to discuss themes such as:

1. Multi-culturalism

2. Inter-generationalism

3. Promoting social justice through the media arts

Little Saigon Foundation tells us a little about what their organization does :)

City Heights CDC gives us a visual display of their goals.

Latino Youth Council tells us about the active work that they do with their members.

Midcity CAN tells us about their vision for the future.

We were very excited to get these group together and start interacting! :) We were very jittery as the date got closer and all of our plans started falling into place. The staff was very happy when the participants were so responsive!

The input that was brought to the focus group was very informative. There was great interaction between the older and younger generations that were present, as well as great responses to the questions that were posed. Over all, the discussions that took place at the focus group gave all of us here at Connect SD, a look into the bigger picture. The bigger picture on what the community in City Heights wish for the future and the different issues that they want to address.

We are so excited for the next focus group in May and what the new group of City Heights organizations will bring to the table! :)