Street Seen - Incite at Columbia University
Street Seen
- Funding Program Assembling Voices
- Timeframe 2023–2024
- Location San Diego, California
-
Assembling Voices Fellows
- Jason Ritchie San Diego Unhoused Collective
- Frank Kensaku San Diego Unhoused Collective
- Affiliated Organizations San Diego Unhoused Collective
The San Diego Unhoused Collective is a collaborative of formerly unhoused artists who create innovative art that centers the perspective of the unsheltered.
The Collective is represented by Assembling Voices Fellows Jason Ritchie and Frank Kensaku Saragosa, San Diego-based artists who have personally experienced homelessness and have since transformed their experiences into innovative writing, film, theater, and digital media.
Together, Ritchie and Saragosa create platforms for people who have been unhoused to tell their stories and seek to empower currently and formerly unhoused people by giving them the skills and tools necessary to tell their own stories and create their own art.
During their Assembling Voices fellowship, the pair produced an experimental theatrical installation titled Street Seen to raise awareness about the lived experiences of unhoused peoples and center the voices of those lived experiences, reflecting the collective’s larger goals of producing public storytelling, art, and advocacy to empower the unhoused community.
More Projects
-
go to The Bifurcation of Racial Justice Discourse
The Bifurcation of Racial Justice DiscourseInvestigating the bifurcated conversation around Black Lives Matter using large web datasets. Part of the Breakdown/ (Re)generation Project
-
go to Sojourners for Justice Press
Sojourners for Justice PressConnecting emerging and established Black publishers with alternative techniques, networks, and knowledge production—as well as each other. Part of Assembling Voices
-
go to A Latin American Civil Society Hub
A Latin American Civil Society HubStrengthening Latin American civil society organizations through regional collaborations. Part of the Global Change Program
-
go to Making the X Multiple: “Y the X?”
Making the X Multiple: “Y the X?”People behind the X in all their complexity, re/generating a spectrum of (gender)queer meanings while challenging gender markers’ essentialist meaning. Part of the Breakdown/ (Re)generation Project