PRIDE of the Eastside

These days, you can hear a lot of people talk about young immigrants in this country – who they are, how they got here, what they’re doing – but you rarely hear that talk from the young immigrants themselves.
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At Eastside Memorial High School, Mendez found students who had recently arrived in the United States from lands across the globe: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Congo, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Iraq, Korea, and Thailand. Some had already begun recording their experiences as an English class assignment. In January, Mendez began videotaping the stories of a dozen students.
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Since May, student and professional artists have been working on the program four days a week, and this week the finished work, Hear Me/See Me, premieres at the Dougherty Arts Center.