Our oakland and Chinese Whispers

My CSF takes place with designer and artist Rene Yung. I like the work because of the diversity of tasks and the insight that I am gaining into all the facets of public and community based art. It is an enormous amount of work to get these sorts of projects going. I'm helping out Rene 

Withe two projects. Our Oakland: Eastside Stories is a project that holds community storytelling events with other local non-profits and uses videos of those stories as content for a social website. This is the temporary website:

http://oaklandspeaks.weebly.com/

I do varied work for this including event organization, book keeping, image editing. We are preparing for an event on the 28th of March where all our planning and outreach will come to fruition. The other project is Chinese Whispers, also centered on community storytelling, but focused on the Chinese communities of the Sierra foothills and their memories and oral histories relating to the railroad and California development. For this I am researching imagery to be used in a future theater performance of the stories. There's quite a bit of multi-tasking working with Rene, but the projects are interesting and it keeps me on my toes!