What is sanctuary? How can we rethink immigration policy? How can we mitigate the climate crisis and work towards climate justice? Add your voice! Share your story! Be part of the solution!
Join us on Wednesday January 25, 2023, for an opening storytelling event to kick-off the semester-long Amplifying Sanctuary Voices (ASV) exhibit! The exhibit will run from January 25 to May 25, 2023, in Rosenberg Library’s 2nd floor atrium at the Ocean Campus of City College of San Francisco, 50 Frida Kahlo Way. This multimedia exhibit features a history of the Sanctuary Movement in the Bay Area and an introduction to climate migration—positioning climate change as a major driver in the forced migration of peoples throughout the world. The exhibit focuses on various nuances of climate-induced displacement and migration of the Rohingya people, as well as people in the Northern Triangle of Central America, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Syria, and Pakistan.
The opening event will take place on Wednesday January 25 from 11AM to 1:30PM!
We are calling on the City College community – students, professors, librarians, staff – to engage in this crucial conversation: bring a class to the exhibit, create and share discussion questions and assignment ideas on migration and climate change in your field, from science to anthropology to art to language to literature. We hope to inspire classes from a variety of disciplines to engage in solutions-focused conversations and brainstorms about migration. To get involved, email CCSF English Professor Steven Mayers (smayers@csf.edu) and ASV co-founder Rebecca Gerny (rebecca@eastbaysanctuary.org)!
Amplifying Sanctuary Voices (ASV) is a storytelling initiative led by East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC), a long-term partner organization of Voice of Witness (VOW). ASV consists of a coalition of community organizations that includes East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Voice of Witness, the Public Service Center at UC Berkeley, Inside the Living Room, Youth UnMuted, and 1951 Coffee. The project aims to create space in mainstream political conversation for the diverse voices and experiences of those impacted by immigration policy decisions. ASV is a community-based oral history project centering the stories of Bay Area residents who have come to the U.S. seeking sanctuary. ASV stimulates dialogue and creates space in the mainstream political conversation for the diverse voices and experiences of those impacted by policy decisions.
SPONSORED BY: CCSF ROSENBERG LIBRARY, AMPLIFYING SANCTUARY VOICES (ASV), EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT (EBSC), CCSF PUENTE PROGRAM, CCSF CITY DREAM
COLLAGES BY: BRIANNA ADIA DAVIS
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