Tag: City Heights San Diego

  • Lawsuit Challenging SD Unified Elections Seeks To Invalidate This Year’s Board Races

    Lawsuit Challenging SD Unified Elections Seeks To Invalidate This Year’s Board Races

    A lawsuit says San Diego Unified School Board elections disenfranchise minority voters. It seeks changes to how the elections are run and asks the court to invalidate next month’s school board election.

  • Budget Cuts, Layoffs And Closures Hit Refugee-Serving Organizations

    Budget Cuts, Layoffs And Closures Hit Refugee-Serving Organizations

    The administration’s recent announcement to slash refugee arrivals for this upcoming fiscal year is causing uncertainty for people overseas and also affecting organizations assisting newcomers in the U.S.

  • Refugee Art Project Maps Home

    Refugee Art Project Maps Home

    In July 2018, a diverse group of refugees and immigrants living in San Diego came together to collaborate in a joint art installment. The project explores symbols and concepts of home and place, bringing together seniors and teen youth from local refugee communities to work with local artists. The immersive art installation in the gallery…

  • Summer Soccer League Supports Refugee Girls

    Summer Soccer League Supports Refugee Girls

    Girls Outdoors Achieving Leadership Skills or GOALS is a summer soccer league hosted by the International Rescue Committee for refugee girls living in San Diego. Video by Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project, Summer 2018: Bethlehem Artrie, Lucy Ellison, Christina Arias, and Trevonce Espiritu. Instructors: Joshua Salaises and Brian Jenkins.

  • Aqua Farm Turns Black Asphalt Into Green Space

    By Brian Myers The Fairmount Aqua Farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee, was developed on a quarter-acre asphalt lot on Fairmount Avenue in City Heights to train community members to grow food with less water and without soil. The project provides a way of growing healthy produce in one San Diego’s densest and…