Inauguration of the Tamejavi Culture and Art Series

Tamejavi Fellows, Alumni and  Apprentice Fellows gathered in Madera, Ca August 19, at a cultural kitchen to celebrate the completion of the capacity building phase of the TCOFP third cohort and to launch the Tamejavi Culture and Art Series.  Fellows …

From Farmworkers to Advocates

  The farmworker movement of the 1960s led by the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez, inspired a traveling group of singers known as “el teatro campesino” that would travel to different fields in the Central Valley to sing to …

The Women International Day

My name is Wasan Abu Baker. I am a Muslim woman and community leader, advocate for the Syrian refugees, FIRM staff member, Sunday school teacher and currently a fellow of AFSC Pan Valley’s Tamejavi Cultural Organizer Fellowship Program (TCOFP). This …

MAI Call for Submissions (volume 2)

Thanks to all who picked up or downloaded a copy of MAI volume 1 commemorating Women’s Month. MAI – a zine on Southeast Asian America volume 2 will be accepting submissions throughout the month of April and May, 2017. THEMES: …

Submit Stories for Zine “MAI”

The Tamejavi Cultural Organizing Fellowship Program will be publishing a zine called “MAI” in March. This publication will be the first of a series of creative literary space for for Southeast Asian Americans whose work reflects and tell the stories …

Memoirs from The Ejido

I can remember as if it was yesterday that I ran through the streets of the small Ejido, the place I called home for many years, eleven to be exact.  My first memories birthed in this small village, I can still smell the wet hills after the rain, the home of the bakery man as I walked by on my way to school.  I can still hear the heavy accent in my teacher’s voice as she attempted to teach us how to say “Buenos Dias” in English.  She had big dreams, indeed.  Most importantly, I can still feel the passion of my community running through me.