The ArteVism fellowship activities

"From Our Roots (Desde Nuestras Raices)" documentary From Our Roots (Desde Nuestras Raices) is a short documentary produced by the Pan Valley Institute of the American Friends Service Committee and the PAR team. This documentary helps us see inside the process of immigrants' integration into the new society and the cultural conflicts

Symposium on The Rights Indigenous Peoples of The Americas This memory book—or memoria—describes the cultural dialogues between California Native Americans and indigenous Mexicans living in the Central Valley. Participating communities include indigenous Mexicans (Mixtecs, P'urhepechas, Otomi, Yaqui, and others), along with Native Americans (Mono, Wukchumni, Chumash, and others). The book celebrates the resistance

Immigrant Women: A Road to the Future This memory book narrates the experience of a group of Hmong, Laotian, Mexican, Salvadoran and Mixtec immigrant women as they engage in building inter-ethnic relationships and try to create one community in the ethnically diverse Central Valley.These women share their own stories of coming together to express their

Sharing Our Silence Seven Central Valley youth share their powerful stories of culture, oppression, self-identity and hope in digital stories they wrote and directed. Using photographs, musical pieces, and artwork, along with other forms of media, these stories illustrate the major issues facing this new generation today. Representing a culturally diverse blend of

En Busca de un Futuro (In Search of a Future) On April 13, 2007, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began a series of raids in Madera, California. It is estimated that ICE detained over 25 undocumented indigenous immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, in their homes that morning, leaving their families and the community of

From Our Roots (Desde Nuestras Raices) From Our Roots, or Desde Nuestras Raices in Spanish, is a short documentary produced by the Pan Valley Institute of the American Friends Service Committee and the PAR Team. This documentary helps us see inside the process of immigrants' integration into the new society and the cultural

Syrian Recipes from Home Nour Al MushantafWe at the Pan Valley Institute felt it was important to give Nour the opportunity to tell her story because, while it is unique to her, her story is also one of countless refugees . Nour is not an activist or politician – she was part of a large,

Latino Civic Participation In this case study, we seek to understand some dimensions of the context in which are formed and expressed the civic and political participation of immigrants residing in the counties of Fresno and Madera, California, as well as the history of their formation as political agents. Statistics tell us of the