Join the Koreatown Storytelling Program!
WHO WE ARE
KSP is a six-month intergenerational multimedia oral history program where students interview community elders on their life stories and professional experiences.
KSP is looking for high school students who are interested in exploring Traditional Healing Arts in our Koreatown community from Sept. 2024 to Feb. 2025.
We will interview, gather and archive oral history narratives about the traditional healing arts from our primarily limited-income, immigrant community.
Join KSP to learn about community journalism, engage with new artistic practices, fulfill community service hours, and be an active participant in your community!
REQUIREMENTS
Be a high school age student
Must commit to a full six-month program (September 2024 - February 2025). We will meet 3-4 times a month for 1.5-2 hour sessions
Must live or attend school in Koreatown
Be interested in engaging with and learning from elders in their community
Bilingual preferred but not required (Korean, Spanish, Bengali, etc.)
After a year of participating in KSP, students are eligible for a paid internship (contingent on family income level) OR to volunteer time towards the President's Volunteer Service Award.
In 2024-2025, KSP will explore the traditional healing arts in our Koreatown community. We are interested in learning from the diversity of healing practices and modalities from our largely Latine and API community, like acupuncturists, herbalists, shamans, botanicas, curanderas, and kabarajis. KSP will interview, gather and archive oral history narratives about the traditional healing arts from our primarily limited-income, immigrant community, where the majority of countries of origin (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Korea, Bangladesh and Mongolia) have strong cultural roots in these modalities. Many residents of our community understand or practice these cultural traditions, rituals and methods, but these voices are rarely explored, documented and archived. We will invite traditional healing artists to lead workshops and demonstrations in their areas of expertise and are excited to learn from and with our Koreatown community.