Partners
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 1st 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 + 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 + their families in the short term, and to organize them collectively to address workers’ needs + issues both in the community + in the workplace for long-term change. For over 12 years, PWC has developed solid community-based programs that serve Filipino workers + their families, including case-management, legal assistance, trainings, leadership development programs + civic participation campaigns.
Website: http://www.pwcsc.org/
Public Matters designs the multidisciplinary program curriculum + leads the youth workshops.
Public Matters is an interdisciplinary California-based social enterprise comprised of artists, media professionals + educators. It designs + implements integrated new media, education + 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 + local municipalities.
Public Matters works with residents + stakeholders to create “Neighborhood Narratives,” innovative, place-based projects that build creative, civic + social capital in communities by linking story + community engagement with direct actions. Driven by community interests, participation + needs, Neighborhood Narratives illuminate the history, character, conditions + questions of “meaning” in neighborhoods, while strategically advancing policy + advocacy efforts, educational programs, organizational capacity + community development. Through Neighborhood Narratives, participants deepen their sense of place, purpose + involvement in their communities, and work in partnership to achieve shared goals.
Website: http://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 + collaborative authoring environment for mapping the cultural, architectural + urban history of cities. Pdub–generated media about Historic Filipinotown populates the first neighborhood represented on HyperCities Los Angeles, extending PDUB’s project visibility + 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 + 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 + Performance, or REMAP, is a joint effort of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television + the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering + Applied Science. REMAP brings together world-class faculty + students from both campus units to engage the public in envisioning + building technologies that promote hands-on explorations of local culture, identity, memory, technology + urban design.
COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
PDUB has established a Community Advisory Board that includes longtime residents, local businessowners, as well as representatives from non-profits, the local City Council Office + the Hi Fi Chamber of Commerce.
LOCAL YOUTH At UCLA:
PDUB Workshops With UCLA Professors
During 2008-2009, the first year of PDUB Productions, PDUB Youth participated in workshops at UCLA in Oral History, HyperCities, and Locative Media Tour Design. The following summer, PDUB Youth Angelo “Manok” Bernardo is did a paid internship with HyperCities + REMAP at UCLA.
It was his first job.
