Upcoming events.
Past events
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YouthKAN Retreat 2022
September 2022 @ Black Diamond Camp
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Camp WeKAN 2022
August 2022, in partnership with Glacier Peak Institute
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Camp YouthKAN 2022
July 2022, in partnership with Ayeko Farm.
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Mental Health Awareness
May 21, 2022
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Asian American Forum
November 9, 2019
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Camp KoreAM
August 28-30, 2019
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OYM Valentine's Day Gala
February 15, 2020
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YouthKAN Summer Institute
July 10-14, 2023 at Crane Island
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WeKAN Summer Institute
July 31 - August 4, 2023. A week-long program for middle school students to explore the outdoors, make new friendships and explore who they are.
Camp YouthKAN 2021
In 2021, Camp YouthKAN had virtual discussions with Matt R. Fact, Ana Chen, and Deepa Ayer! Check out our Instagram for recordings of the discussions!
Ana Chen
Ana is a nineteen-year-old Chinese-American student at Stanford University. Ana is the founder and co-editor of It’s Real, an online magazine dedicated to destigmatize mental health issues in Asian American communities.
Matt R. Fact
Matt is an Asian American musician who raps about his real life, touching on subjects such as ways to make nonprofit funding more efficient and impactful or the experience of being Asian American. Check out his work here!
YouthKAN Summer Training Institute
Join other Asian American high school students for A 5-day OVERNIGHT institute for high school youth to build a toolbox of skills in critical thinking, collective power, storytelling, identity development, and dialogue. You will build relationships across ethnicity and geography, and educate each other on community problems and their impacts on community health and well-being. 2023 Annual YouthKAN Summer Training Institute will be held on July 10-14, 2023 at Crane Island, Washington. Car and boat transportation will be provided from Korean Community Service Center, 22727 Hwy 99, Edmonds, WA 98026.
LET'S TALK: The Mental Health Round Table
YouthKAN is hosting an event with the goal of supporting the mental health of Asian-American youth through discussion, education, and peer counseling. Our youth have received professional training.
Zoom Meeting Info:
ID: 428 840 2521
Passcode: YouthKAN
Camp YouthKAN 2020
Sign up for Camp YouthKAN, Monday, August 17 - Friday, August 21, 5 days of making friends, creative play, and telling stories for change, led by teaching artists and student activists. We will dig into: Im/migration, Model Minority Myth, racism/colorism and activism/solidarity.
Monday, August 17, 11am-1pm (virtual / Zoom)
Tuesday, August 18, 11am-1pm (virtual / Zoom)
Wednesday, August 19, 11am-1pm (virtual / Zoom)
Thursday, August 20, 11am-1pm (virtual / Zoom)
Friday, August 21, 2020, 10am - 5pm (Ayeko Farm* in Enumclaw, WA / conversations will also be live virtually)
Cost: $30 donation. Donate here.
Anyone ages 14-19 may register. Please commit to attending all sessions.
The farm project will be open to 9 registered students. In-person participation is not required to register. Participants will be asked to wear face coverings, bring their own lunch (paid for by Korean Community Service Center) and maintain 6-10 feet distance as we talk and connect to the healing soil throughout the day. This experience will be 100% outdoors, and we will help participants prepare for this accordingly. For those who choose to participate virtually, the sessions on Ayeko Farm will be accessible live online. We will remain flexible and update often as plans may change due to COVID-19.
*Ayeko Farm
Ayeko Farm is a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and family-centered space, where folks can come to feel comfortable on the land and connect to nature, explore culture through food, medicine, and nature, and nourish and heal. We try to grow food with the least harm to the earth, and we focus on growing food that is important to many different cultures. We are making this space available for farmers who have previously lost access to land through colonial violence, forced migration, or institutional racism. We create space for people to celebrate and maintain culture, earn income, and build community.
Guest Storytellers
Ashley Lee
Mikayla Weary
Deepa Iyer
Deepa Iyer wants to make rural America a safe space for farmers of color, bringing back the cultural and physical connection that BIPOC folks have historically had with the land that sustains them. On her 21-acre farm in rural Washington state, she and her family grow vegetables and herbs that ground her in her families’ food traditions: the rice fields of southern India for her, and rural agricultural villages of Ghana for husband Victor. Deepa focuses her work on those who have trouble accessing land because of displacement or economic reasons by allying with other resilient communities that allow Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who are not in rural areas but want to be living closer to the land to feel welcome and physically safe in rural America.
Dae Shik Kim Jr
Judy Ko
Judy Ko was formerly a graphic designer on the east coast, and is now in the Pacific Northwest investigating the intersection of Creativity and Soul Care, training to become an art & play therapist. She loves discovering artists & getting lost in museums, making things with her hands, spending time with good friends, her husband and their puppy Penny. Recently she's been exploring the healing and empowering practice of authentic movement: https://medium.com/@designsense/the-power-of-authentic-movement-c741bae20cf4
Hannah Sung
Hello! I work and reside in the MN Twin Cities with a background in graphic design and use she/her pronouns. I am full-time in Compliance in MN Affordable Housing and a part-timer in other fields. Because I like to eat, live, and have at least some money in my savings.
Multicultural awareness and education programs, like this camp hosted by YouthKAN, have always held a place in my heart. As a young adult, it was where I felt a new understanding and education to my own experiences. Since this knowledge was not available as a resource until I attended institutions of higher education. I look forward to learning from everyone as, together, we all continue learning about ourselves. Thank you!
April Ulinski
April Ulinski is a Seattle-based poet, social artist, and environmental educator from St Louis, MO. She writes, facilitates, and activates creativity at the intersection of soil, water, and neighborhood.