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Tamejavi Event To Celebrate Valley's Diverse Cultures

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The first Tamejavi Fellowship Cultural Organizing Program will present ‘No Longer Strangers,’ the grand finale of the Tamejavi Culture and Arts Series, at the Tower Theater in Fresno on Saturday (May 18) at 6 p.m. Myrna Martinez, with the American Friends Service Committee, and fellow Pov Xyooj, join Valley Edition to discuss the event.

Martinez says the presentation will be a multimedia event, featuring traditional musical instruments, dancing, and spoken word performances. She says the event will combine and elevate the stories of the Valley’s diverse immigrant communities.

“The way we see this, this is a very critical moment for people to have a better understanding of who the immigrant communities are,” Martinez says.

The event is the culmination of the Tamejavi Fellowship Cultural Organizing Program. Tamejavi is a made-up word that combines three languages to mean “a cultural market, a place of exchange, a place of gathering,” Martinez says.

Pov Xyooj, one of the ten fellows, will participate in the event. He says the fellowship taught him to organize his community culturally, and start dialogue to foster understanding of other cultures.

Rebecca Plevin was a reporter for Valley Public Radio from 2013-2014. Before joining the station, she was the community health reporter for Vida en el Valle, the McClatchy Company's bilingual newspaper in California's San Joaquin Valley. She earned the George F. Gruner Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism and the McClatchy President's Award for her work at Vida, as well as honors from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Plevin grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is also a fluent Spanish speaker, a certified yoga teacher, and an avid rock-climber.
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