Write About Asia: 2020 Freeman Award Winners

Program Start Date: Aug 24 2021

Location: Online program

This workshop was sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center (EARC) in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington with funding from a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) and was facilitated by Mary Roberts. During this online workshop, teachers studied

Asian American Activism: Voices, Representation, and Resistance

Program Start Date: Aug 4 2021

Location: Online program

This series of standalone workshops explored examples of Asian American activism – past and present through the themes of identity, immigration, exclusion, protest, resilience, and expression. In looking to the past, we worked to better understand what it means to be Asian American within a contemporary context. Beginning on July 28, 2021, with the first

Identity After Upheaval: Connecting Asian Artists and Student Voices

Program Start Date: May 27 2021

Location: Online program

In partnership with the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), this workshop focused on Asian artists who explore how identities change following significant life events, such as war, migration, graduating school, or having a dream come true. Considering how COVID-19 has shifted our everyday lives, educators can encourage students to use art, writing, and self-expression in

Creating Accordion Books in East Asian History and Now

Program Start Date: May 19 2021

Location: Online program

In this workshop we looked at examples of accordion books—which are made by folding long sheets of with a cover attached — in a quick tour of their uses in East Asian history. Known as orihon in Japan, accordion books became a popular form for paintings and woodblock prints, for combining text with images, and

Write About Asia, Spring 2021 – Sites of Memory in Asia: Remembrance and Redemption

Program Start Date: Apr 3 2021

Write about Asia was offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series. This series was titled Sites of Memory in Asia: Remembrance and Redemption and looked at how monumental structures encapsulate poignant events

“The Shanghai Free Taxi” Online NCTA Book Club

Program Start Date: Apr 21 2021

Location: Online program

Participants joined Tese Wintz Neighbor on an engaging and touching literary ride through the streets of Shanghai and beyond. The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China is “a master class on how to chronicle a changing country through the personal narratives of its citizens.” The author is NPR correspondent Frank

East Asia Beyond the Headlines: Contemporary Issues in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea

Program Start Date: Apr 30 2021

Location: Online program

This 20-hour NCTA online seminar was geared for secondary current world affairs, geography, history, and social studies teachers and curriculum specialists to help educators expand and update their own knowledge of current issues in East Asia or incorporate content on East Asia into their curriculum for the first time. School librarians and administrators were also

Teaching Empathy and Understanding: Asian Pacific Islander American Communities, Our Celebrations, and Our Stories

Program Start Date: Feb 3 2021

Location: Online program

Program Description A grandmother teaches her grandchild how to create rice cakes filled with sweetened red beans, a young girl and her cousins watching YouTube videos together as they gather with their family for their yearly New Year’s feast, a mochi-making tradition is shared on Instagram to online followers–these time-honored rituals of celebrating the New

Write About Asia Winter 2021 – Art and Renewal in Times of Crisis in Asia

Program Start Date: Mar 6 2021

  Write about Asia was offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series. This series is titled Art and Renewal in Times of Crisis in Asia and looked at how has art and

Through a Lens: Exploring Contemporary China Through Film, Documentary and Social Media

Program Start Date: Mar 17 2021

Location: Online program

This was an online program open to current, in-service K-12 teachers of all subjects. For most Americans the geography, culture, economics, politics, religions and philosophies of China seem more than an ocean away. Chinese documentaries, films, and social media can make this complex country—with its long history and mind-boggling present—more accessible to you and your