"Identity Activities"
Activity
Summary
Through various mediums, such as art or music, participants explore the components of identity and their interactions as people migrate across the world.
Instructional Strategies
1. Provide opportunities through art, music or writing for youth to express their own identities, history, affiliations, values, intentions, and needs.
2. Explore different facets of ascribed or acquired identity: ethnicity, race, gender, religion, language, geography, sexual orientation, vocation, avocation.
3. Find intersections and commonalities between various identities and find hybrid identities that entwine features of identity due to exchange, migration, or colonization.
4. Evaluate reasons and map pathways by which features of identity traveled from one nation, region, or culture to another
Participant Tasks
1. Express your identity, history, affiliations, values, intentions, and needs through art, music or writing.
2. Explore different facets of ascribed or acquired identity: ethnicity, race, gender, religion, language, geography, sexual orientation, vocation, avocation.
3. Look for intersections and commonalities between various identities and find hybrid identities that entwine features of identity due to exchange, migration, or colonization.
4. Evaluate reasons and map pathways by which features of identity traveled from one nation, region, or culture to another