Through its partnerships, PDUB Productions deepens and broadens the impact of its work, expanding educational opportunities for participating youth and resulting in greater community benefit for Historic Filipinotown.

Pilipino Workers’ Center (a.k.a. PWC) is PDUB Productions’ home base in Historic Filipinotown.

Established May 1^st 1997, PWC was founded on the idea that everyone has the right to a healthy quality of life, including safe working conditions, living wages, healthcare and human dignity.  PWC is a low-wage, worker-based, grassroots social justice organization.  Its mission is to provide services and resources that help meet the urgent needs of Pilipino workers and their families in the short term, and to organize them collectively to address workers’ needs and issues both in the community and in the workplace for long-term change. For over 12 years, PWC has developed solid community-based programs that serve Filipino workers and their families, including case-management, legal assistance, trainings, leadership development programs and civic participation campaigns.

Website: http://www.pwcsc.org/

Public Matters designs the multidisciplinary program curriculum and leads the youth workshops.

Public Matters is an interdisciplinary California-based social enterprise comprised of artists, media professionals and educators. It designs and implements integrated new media, education and civic engagement projects that yield long-term community benefits. Public Matters’ work spans a broad range of constituents and concerns: community building, economic development, neighborhood identity, youth leadership, and public health; it is characterized by cross-sector partnerships between community organizations, academic institutions, neighborhood residents, youth and local municipalities.

Public Matters works with residents and stakeholders to create “Neighborhood Narratives,” innovative, place-based projects that build creative, civic and social capital in communities by linking story and community engagement with direct actions. Driven by community interests, participation and needs, Neighborhood Narratives illuminate the history, character, conditions and questions of “meaning” in neighborhoods, while strategically advancing policy and advocacy efforts, educational programs, organizational capacity and community development. Through Neighborhood Narratives, participants deepen their sense of place, purpose, and involvement in their communities, and work in partnership to achieve shared goals.

Websitehttp://www.publicmattersgroup.com/about.htm
Blog: http://publicmattersgroup.wordpress.com/
Market Makeovers: http://publicmattersgroup.wordpress.com/market-makeovers/

UCLA HyperCities provides a cutting-edge web-based platform that allows users to access the youth-generated content in a geo-temporal context, alongside academic scholarship and other user-generated content.

HyperCities Los Angeles is a recently created branch of HyperCities, an award-winning interactive web-based research platform and collaborative authoring environment for mapping the cultural, architectural and urban history of cities. Pdub-generated media about Historic Filipinotown populates the first neighborhood represented on HyperCities Los Angeles, extending PDUB’s project visibility and distribution far beyond Historic Filipinotown’s physical boundaries. Further, students enrolled in the UCLA History Seminar, “Creating and Recreating Historic Filipinotown,” met with PDub youth and provided research assistance for the development of Mobile Hi Fi Tour content.

Website: http://hypercities.com/

REMAP

UCLA Center for Remap designs and implements the technology for the locative mobile media tours that will take place onsite in Historic Filipinotown.
The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, or REMAP, is a joint effort of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. REMAP brings together world-class faculty and students from both campus units to engage the public in envisioning and building technologies that promote hands-on explorations of local culture, identity, memory, technology and urban design.
 
PDUB has also established a Community Advisory Board that includes longtime residents, local businessowners, as well as representatives from non-profits, the local City Council Office and the Hi Fi Chamber of Commerce.

LOCAL YOUTH At UCLA:

PDUB Workshops With UCLA Professors

 
During the last year, PDUB Youth have participated in workshops at UCLA in Oral History, HyperCities, and Locative Media Tour Design. This summer, PDUB Youth Angelo “Manok” Bernardo is doing a paid internship with HyperCities and ReMap at UCLA.

It’s his first job.