Gaining Ground

Exploring Our Potential to Create Positive Social Change

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Links
- Asian Arts Initiative Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown Neighborhood, the non-profit organization, Asian Arts Initiative, fights hard to build community and promote art among Asian Americans and persons of color.
- Bia 2 Eclectic site for music and entertainment, serving the Iranian diaspora.
- Camp Ayandeh/Iranian Alliances Across Borders Camp Ayandeh is a youth leadership camp for Iranian American high schoolers held annually throughout the nation. Admirable community building initiative.
- Iranian.Com Updates about Iranian current events and happenings.
- Media Education Lab at Temple University The Media Education Lab at Temple University advances media literacy education through research and community service. We emphasize interdisciplinary scholarship and practice that stands at the intersections of communication, media studies and education.
- Messages in Motion “MIM offers participants the opportunity to produce short video postcards that communicate personal and social messages about their diverse life experiences.”
Watch videos at Vodpod and other videos from this collection.

More Fusion Music

Posted by Aggie on August 3, 2009

Fared Shafinury, a Texas-born Iranian setar player who blends classical Persian music with an indie rock sensibility:

Read more about him in an interview with Diane Tucker of Huffington Post.

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Sara said

August 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm
This is amazing…

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- Aggie said
  
  August 4, 2009 at 8:41 pm
  Yep. Absolutely. And shot on a cell phone! Quality of ideas counts for everything.
  
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