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. 

Register here!

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

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_____________________________________________________________ A long time ago, neighbors in Korean culture were considered family. Although they were not related by blood, they were related by love — a love that was thicker and more tender than blood… until we become too occupied to focus on our neighbors. While we distract ourselves with our own wishes and desires, we are becoming oblivious to what our neighbors are facing. They are facing a threat that weighs more than they can carry on their own. The same threat that has targeted the Black community as they continue to die at the hands of police officers across the country. The same threat that our family members, friends, and acquaintances choose to ignore — right next door. We stand in solidarity with the Black community. We stand until justice is served. Because it is time to start recognizing that our neighbors are family again. Poet: @ashneeek from the DAY team! Illustrator: @melodiechiu from the DAY team! #BLM #blacklivesmatter #asiansforblacklives #slampoem

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Mikayla Weary

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Two black girls from shoreline @_.kai._.lynj._ and @misskaylaweary spoke today at the @sayhernameseattle march/rally! Kailyn’s full speech is on her page @_.kai._.lynj._ listen to it and hear her words as she is the leader for the next generation of black girls in shoreline. This girl is a powerhouse and she is amazing! I can wait to see how this girl changes shoreline for good after I graduate. After shoreline, she will move on to the WORLD! I spoke about my experience as a darkskin black women and the struggles that I face in America’s public eye as a target. We are two of the many fantastic and brilliant black girls who are leaders in shoreline and we need to be embraced and not be called “angry” or “impatient”. Us black girls need to be seen as our age. Thank you so much @sayhernameseattle for giving us this opportunity to organize and be apart of this amazing annual revolution. Through organizing I was able to meet many other amazing black girls and women who are changing Seattle for the good. Black women deserve to have their feelings validated. We deserve to have a world outcry for justice as we see for others. We deserve the funding and reparations that we need in case we have to bury our sons and daughters. We deserve to live. #protectblackwomen #sayhernamemarch #sayhername #protectblacktranswomen @sayhernameseattle

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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

Asian Americans have put proximity to whiteness over solidarity with Black people. My latest with @thenation on confronting anti-Blackness among Asian Americans—and how it's touched my own story within my Korean & Black family. Editing by @madelesque.https://t.co/xMUGgalUr3

— Dae the Lawless (@daeshikjr) June 30, 2020

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.