最好的... 2022-2023年AEPG项目奖励

Congratulations to the 2022-2023 AEPG 最好的... 获奖者! 在这首年， we recognize two Artistic Excellence Programming Grant projects that represent community 参与和跨学科. (阅读更多 在这里 关于倡议.)

Reiko Kataoka, "The Meaning of Linguistic 多样性"

Living in the Bay Area or attending 菠菜网lol正规平台, what 一个 experiences uniformly is linguistic 多样性. We hear many different languages being spoken, some identifiable and most others not, and we try to guess based on what people look like and how they dress. But really understanding the personal, cultural, and social dimensions of these spoken codes requires systematic study, reflection, and 订婚 of individuals from multiple 角. 这正是Dr. Kataoka’s AEPG project did this past year.

Launched in August of 2022 and over this academic year, this project provided experiential learning opportunities for 3 research assistant students, who h一个d their research skills through exploratory interviews with community members, survey study and group discussions, in addition to deepening their mastery of theoretical concepts in communicating with the 菠菜网lol正规平台 community during tabling 事件s. 

But this project had an even greater impact in terms of student, faculty, and community 订婚. Nearly 450 students engaged with the project through their participation in a survey, interviews, or curricular integration in participating classes; and over 250 students participated in a tabling 事件, a public discussion, and a final 事件 在锤击中.

The 60+ participants at the final 事件 were first treated to a 20-minute video of interviews conducted by the student assistants with members of community cultural and artistic organizations - the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, the School of Visual Philosophy, and Mosaic America - w在这里 participants shared their reflections on the social and personal identity dimensions of linguistic 多样性 and its impact on the daily lives of multilingual speakers in the Bay Area. 视频演示结束后， panel discussions brought forth perspectives from students, faculty and retired faculty 来自语言学，心理学，墨西哥 & Chicano Studies, and from community organizations on how linguistic 多样性 influences identity, social meanings of varied language forms and ways to promote linguistic equality and linguistic 多样性 awareness in our society with the goal to bring about positive cultural change and to lift linguistic 我们社会中的偏见.

我们想要认识一下. Kataoka with the 最好的 Community 参与ment Award for setting up and implementing to perfection this meaningful and impactful year-long project and for highlighting the real effect of linguistic 多样性, its value and difficulties, in our lives, and for promoting greater cultural understanding within 菠菜网lol正规平台社区和其他地方. 

Watch students conduct interviews with community members (see video).

祝贺你,博士. Kataoka!

J. 迈克尔·马丁内斯，《菠菜网lol正规平台》

Our second award for 2022-2023 is for the most effectively interdisciplinary AEPG 事件.  

This category recognizes the AEPG project that collaborates robustly and widely with students and faculty outside the projects' department, school, or similar discipline, 我很高兴把这个奖颁给J. 迈克尔·马丁内斯 and the many others who participated 《炼金术:表演中的诗歌.  

Apprenticing itself to the arcane performance practices of the enigmatic Bread and Puppet Theater, Poetic Alchemy was an evening of surreal life-size puppetry and mask dazzled mysteries that interlaced interpretative performance with poetry. 体现 the alchemical, that medieval science in pursuit of immortality that chased the key to transmute lead into gold, the interdisciplinary performance of Poetic Alchemy featured collaborations with students and faculty from the Department of Film and Theatre, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, local dancers, modular ambience, South Bay electronic musicians, and area audiovisual artists. 演出地点 and spoken word filter contemporary 21st century social inequities with aesthetic intent, Poetic Alchemy made visceral the unique positionalities and cultural perspectives of San Jose State University’s poets and writers. 

The hour-long collaborative multi-media performance that utilized 20th century avant-garde theories in poetry and dance, was accompanied with live guitar, electronic music, projected digital art, and paper art, creating was a highly engaging and enriching 事件 for both the performers and the audience. 一位与会者回应了我们的约定 survey that "poetry doesn’t have to be confined to a page or to an individual; it grows more powerful across mediums, voices, and audience.“最深刻的元素 to this AEPG 事件 is that the audience recognized that it embodied  interdisciplinarity 在工作中.

祝贺你，J教授. 迈克尔·马丁内斯!

-作者:Katherine D. 哈里斯(9月. 6, 2023)