Ticket price: $25 adult/$20 students.

All proceeds will go towards our Humla Project  that gears to provide scholarship fund for underprivileged students in Humla district in Nepal and also towards the Himalayan Yout Summit 2012.

As our goal for the 2012 HYLS is to include youth at ALL levels and in every stage of planning, this year’s summit will be spearheaded by a Youth Committee. Alongside the support provided by partner organizations, youth of the Himalayan communities will be put on the forefront of organizing an event that is by the youth, of the youth and for the youth.

We would like to encourage all young people from the Himalayan communities (Bhutanese, Nepali, and Tibetan) to participate and play their part in writing the next chapter of HYLS. If you are (OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS) an interested/interesting/talented individual, please request the application, fill it out and email it to us. To request a Youth Committee application, please email Jain Thapa at himalayanyouth@gmail.com.

The deadline for the application period is April 20, 2012.

At SFIAAFF 2011, CAAM highlighted South Asian cinema by screening several wonderful films; this year, we focus on a special part of that region, the Himalayas, specifically Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet.

With funding from the Asian Pacific Fund and the Comcast Foundation, we collaborated with the grassroots organization Sahayeta at the first Himalayan Youth Summit in Oakland, connecting with youth from those three national backgrounds for an intensive media training workshop. From there, the Himalayan Youth Voices Project was born. The project was created and organized by Sapana Sakya, Public Media Director at CAAM.

The Project’s goal is to engage a growing but often invisible segment of the Asian American community in the Bay Area, and to give its youth access to the tools that enable them to tell their own stories. The youth participated in a ten-week workshop with CAAM and the youth media experts at TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools).

CAAM has a long history of supporting media makers but this workshop was a first step in proactively engaging a community that we rarely see in Asian American media spheres. The youth participants were introduced to both professional production skills and the media literacy skills necessary to navigate today’s digital reality. The youth created two final films: Momo Moment and Team Hope, involving two topics that the Himalayan community is passionate about: the dumpling and the game of soccer.

Check out the HYVP video blog on CAAM’s website , and please join us in welcoming these budding filmmakers and their films to SFIAAFF and the larger Asian American film community!

For details, visit: http://www.thirdi.org/festival/film/2011_film_pages/WayofLife.html

To send in your application, please visit http://caamedia.org/filmmaker-resources/himalayan-youth-video-workshop-application/

Workshop Schedule:

Saturday, September 24^th 10 am – 3 pm

• Community Building – (facilitated by CAAM and Sahayeta, and others)
• Focus on cultural identity and important issues that this group of youth face
• Discuss and Decide video topics
• Discuss Flip Cam Diaries - each youth will receive a flip cam to “document” their experience during this workshop
• Media Literacy
• Camera Basics
• Video Interview Activity using the topics generated in the Community Building portion of session

Saturday, October 1st 10am – 2pm

• Review of Media Literacy
• Review Camera Basics
• Camera Composition: Shot-Sizes, Angles, and Movements

Saturday, October 8^th 10am-2pm

• Review Camera Composition
• Genre and Storytelling/Documentary
• Acting
• Lights and Sound

Saturday, October 15^th 10am-2pm

• Introduction to the Production Process
• Brainstorm for Final Video
• Develop topic
• Decide Genre
• Decide who is the Audience

Saturday, October 22^th 10am-2pm

• Pre-Production

Saturday, October 29th 9:30am-6:30pm (1 hour lunch included)

• Production

Saturday, November 5^th 9:30am-6:30pm (1 hour lunch included)

• Production

Saturday, November 12th 10am-2pm

• Introduction to Editing

Saturday, November 19^th 9:30am-6:30pm (1 hour lunch included)

• Editing

Saturday, December 3rd 9:30am-6:30pm (1 hour lunch included)

• Editing

This is a great opportunity for budding filmmakers to create their films! It’s a workshop that will teach a real skill that the youth can use to create their own media.

Sahayeta is now seeing patients once a month on Sundays. Please call Nisha at 415.297.7643 to make an appointment for your free health check up.

Location:  Davis Street Clinic, 3081 Teagarden Street, San Leandro, CA 94577-5720

OFFICIALLY 501c3!!! Sahayeta is now officially a registered 501c3 organization.  If you want to make tax deductible donations  please mail a check to:  Sahayeta.org, 130 Acadia Street, Apt # 9, San Francisco, CA 94131

Free Primary Health Care Screening Day – October 24th, 2010

Comprehensive healthcare is no longer a fantasy in the United States of America – a handful of San Francisco Bay Area volunteers have made it a reality. Their small network of local health professionals and students brought to the Bay Area’s Himalayan community what many healthcare activists been positing for years: a health care system which addresses three components of individual health: mental, physical, and cultural. Moreover, these services are provided at no cost to the individual served.

On a rainy Sunday morning in late October, the doors of the Davis Street Family Health Clinic in San Leandro opened, once again, for Sahayeta.Org’s 3rd Annual Health Clinic. The dreary weather outside had little effect on the enthusiasm inside; individuals and families waited for their providers while being entertained by live theatrical performances and traditional folk dance. Combining health awareness with cultural activity has become one of Sahayeta.Org’s main strategies in uniting the Bay Area’s Himalayan Community (which includes recent immigrants, working professionals and students of Nepalese, Bhutanese and Tibetan descent). Once registered with the organization, patients receive free follow-up care.

With the support of Samuel Merritt University, Sahayeta’s health program has gained the attention of practitioners throughout Northern California. Three years ago, organizers had to scour the Nepali and Tibetan-speaking network for available health providers. But the health event has slowly made a name for itself, and the search for providers is no longer as arduous. “Now,” according to Sahayeta.Org’s president and Nurse Practitioner, Nisha Thapa, “the providers come to us.” In addition to internists and nurses, this year’s patient group of 75 individuals were seen by Nepalese and Tibetan providers in the fields of Pediatrics, Optometry, Clinical Psychology, Dentistry and Physical Therapy.

In addition to the annual key organizers from Samuel Merritt University, Drs. Valerie Dzubur and Suzanne Schwartz and Clinical Nurse Specialist of Alameda County, Kathy Ahoy, Sahayeta.Org is deeply grateful for the participation of:

Dechen Dolkar -Director of Tibetan Health Committee; Registered Nurse at Stanford Hospital
Dr Siddhartha Gurung- Family Physician
Dr Archana Kyastha- Pediatrician
Dr Jabina Ramdey- Optometrist
Dr Sadhana Adhikari- Clinical Psychologist
Dr Sujana Maskey- Dentist
Bernadette Currier – Physical Therapist
Ram Lacchi Rana- BACC; Nepali Interpreter at Alameda County Medical Center
Richie Jain  Thapa- Bhutanese youth leader
Gregg Tully- Nepal Youth Foundation
Suresh Oja- Computer Association of Nepal USA- Disaster Preparedness
Narika .Org – South Asian women’s group
Hepatitis B Project
Samuel Merritt University student volunteers
Bay Area – based Himalayan Community volunteers