| Barrio Logan: Youth Voices & Community Stories is a digital storytelling project that helps sustain, support, celebrate and maintain community identity and pride in an area that is widely regarded as a center for Latino civic engagement. This project is a partnership between the City of San Diego Public Library and Media Arts Center San Diego. Local youth learn media technology skills and document many residents’ life histories. In the process, they make inter-generational ties, help ensure the community’s cultural survival, practice leadership and asset-building skills, and reinforce their own community roots by connecting the past to their future. With training and support from Media Art Center San Diego’s local media artists and librarians at the Central Library, young people research and produce a series of videos that focus on education, housing, employment, activism, health, history, arts and culture, and issues within these themes that highlight the importance of community empowerment and self-sufficiency.
The Barrio Logan: Youth Voices & Community Stories project also includes:
• Community-based digital storytelling workshops
• Digital storytelling station housed in library
• Library-based digital storytelling workshops and lab time
• Community-based, half-day workshops
• Staff development workshops
• Community screenings of the videos
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