Aypal: Building API Community Power

Join us this upcoming Monday 3/16 for the first spoken word workshop in preparation for performance at AYPAL's May Arts Festival. We'll be learning about oral history & spoken word from Isabel C. Shen!

Isabel is a diasporic poet and oral history advocate from Oakland. She is a 2025 and 2026 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist, a three-time Scholastic National Gold Medalist, and an Iowa Young Writers’ Studio alumna. Her poetry has been recognized by the national Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, the international Fischer Prize, the Marin Poetry Center, and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She is currently a national Call 4 Kindness fellow for her Oakland oral history project, where she is grateful to work with Harbor House, Heads Up, and other community organizations. She has a dog that acts like a cat.

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Come hang with us this Saturday for games, Thai food, karaoke, and new friends 🙂‍↕️👾🀄️🧩🎶🎤🤝
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FOB Teacher Spotlight: Andie Nguyen

Come see what AYPAL youth created with Andie on Friday, December 12 at

‼️CALLING ALL MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL AGE YOUTH‼️
📣Join us for AYPAL’s Back to School Kick Off event next Saturday, Sept. 27th from 11am-1pm
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