Workshops Block C 2:30-3:30
Basking in the Sun: Pilipina/x/o and the Power of Kapwa
Reanne Young and Maria Graciela
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Explore and experience “kapwa'' and what it means as a collectivist approach to re-indigenize funds of ancestral knowledge, power, and practice. ‘Ka’ in “Kapwa,” symbolizes connection in the indigenous script known as “baybayin.” Virgilio Enriquez, scholar and founder of “Sikolohiyang Pilipino” [Pilipino psychology], writes about the field as an approach of ‘‘indigenization from within.” Enriquez describes the pre-colonial core Pilipina/x/o value of “Kapwa'' as the “unity of one-of-us-and-the-other'' and as a part of the journey towards peace through unity and justice. Engage in a critical consciousness framework cultivating “Kapwa” and move toward sustaining “Kapwa” as an intention inspired by healing. Learn how to sustain “Kapwa'' as a daily lived practice rooted in a shared sense of inner belonging.
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Lift Our Lamps Higher: Asian American History Takes to the Stage!
Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
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This workshop will explore the power of storytelling, through dramatic language arts while sharing the rich history of early California Chinese pioneers of the Monterey Coast through Eth-Noh-Tec’s storytelling theater. The process: personal family, interviews, historic research and creative writing from “page-to-stage” will be demonstrated using excerpts from “Red Altar” (Chinese American play).
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Journey of Belonging: Awakening, Advocacy and Action
Lynn Lin
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In this workshop participants will learn about an affinity group called Courageous Dialogue with Chinese Educators. As founding members and participants, we will discuss the importance of such a group during the pandemic. We will then use CDCE as a case study to discuss: What support do we need to maintain mental wellness? What role does intersectionality play in our experience and identities? We will then discuss various ways of practicing advocacy in our own school communities (curriculum, cross-content collaboration, affinity space for both adults and students, community based organizations, nonprofits and grass-root groups). Finally participants will spend a few minutes journaling and sharing 3 things you learned, 2 things you are considering, 1 action you will take as a step forward.
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Naming and Identifying Whiteness in our School Cultures
Ricco Siasoco
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This year's conference theme of dispelling the myth of the model minority asks us to ponder: How do we fight for what we want rather than accept what we are given? What do we need to do in order to be in solidarity and work toward liberation for all? In order to dispel myths about passivity and obeisance for Asian Americans, we must learn to identify and name structural/institutionalized racism. When do our school cultures default to whiteness? How do we, as Asian Americans, disrupt the predominant culture with directness, fearlessness, and tact?
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