Youth Arts Workshop

The Asian Arts Initiative hosts a series of ongoing yearly youth arts workshops. By providing art-making opportunities and a safe space for Asian American teens, we hope that teens will have a chance to explore and express their experiences and connect with others in their community. Projects over the years have included theater, spoken word, poetry, writing, documentary video, narrative film, short video, drawing/painting, mural making, hip-hop dance, DJ techniques, and many more. Most of the youth workshops run after school or on weekends during the academic year from September through June, generally with three ongoing weekly workshops and occasional one-day workshops. Through these workshops, we hope that teens will:

  • Develop greater understanding of their own and each others experience
  • Be able to express their personal stories and how they relate to a larger social context
  • Develop critical thinking skills through dialogue
  • Find ways to incorporate their experience and understanding into their art
  • Demonstrate improvement in specific artistic skills
  • Pursue further opportunities for community-based arts in the future

Youth-Produced Videos

View clippings of the videos produced by the teens involved in the Youth Arts Workshop. Most of these videos were produced as part of workshops which taught teens how to use video cameras and editing software, providing them access to another media to document their stories and the Philadelphia communities.

Please download Quicktime Movie Player to view these video clips.
Name
Ba Bay Three
Chinatown Life Stories (w/ Termite TV)
Family (Phally Chroy)
InvAsian (w/ DUTV)
Listen Up! PSAs
Life Stories from Washington Avenue (w/ Termite TV)
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