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SEAC Outreach: View Ridge Elementary School (Part 1)
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| A group of students create their own shadow performance |
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This week in TWISEA we are featuring our managing director Rebakah Daro Minarchek and Tikka Sears and their Indonesian culture outreach event at View Ridge Elementary School.
One of SEAC’s missions is to do outreach with the Greater Seattle community, in particular K-12 schools. Our most recent project was an Indonesian culture curriculum at View Ridge Elementary School. The first segment focused on learning the Ramayana, its main characters and ways it is performed in Indonesia. After hearing the story, the students made their own shadow puppets (wayang kulit) out of paper, chopsticks and brads.
If you are interested in helping with our education outreach, we are still looking for any Southeast Asian “artifacts” donations for our cultural kits for students throughout Washington State. These items will not be returned and we would like items that are kid-friendly and small enough to fit in a medium flat-rate box through UPS. Items can be samples of bills or coins, weavings, CDs of music, children’s books, games, anything. If you have an item, you can bring it to the Southeast Asia Center (Thomson Hall Room 303) or email us at seac@uw.edu to arrange a pickup.
To see the full photo blog post, click here.
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Date: Friday, March 3
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Thomson Hall Room 317
What does it mean to study and teach about Islam in today’s age of terror and fear of Islam and Muslims? How do we, Muslims and non-Muslims, conceptualize and rethink Islam in its unity and diversity, its persistence and its positive and negative dimensions? How do we strike a difficult balance between being “objective learners/teachers” and being “advocates for peace and justice”? Muhamad Ali reflects on these questions and seeks to offer conceptual and practical frames for presenting Islam in the Religious Studies and Southeast Asian Studies classrooms and public settings, learning from his experiences of studying, teaching and speaking about Islam religiously in Indonesia and historically and critically in America.
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| Dr. Muhamad Ali, University of California, Riverside |
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Community Events
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Sat, Feb 25 | 6:00-10:00pm | Meany Hall
Religion, Gender, and Ethnic Diversity in Southeast Asia: A Henry Luce Foundation Collaboration between the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies and UW SEAC
Mon, Mar 6 | 8:30-3:30pm
Picturing Islam: A Public Workshop with Ken George
Fri, Mar 10 | 12:30-2:00pm | SAV 130
Sat, Jan 28 - Apr 1 | 10:30-11:30am | Seattle University Campus
SEAC Graduate Student Conference
Fri-Sat, March 24-25 | UW Campus
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Our faculty member Dr. Christoph Giebel gave a talk on the Vietnamese Revolution for the History Department's "Worlds Turned Upside Down: Five Revolutions That Shapes Our Times" series. You can see the full talk here.
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| Dr. Christoph Giebel |
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