during the radio show Hecho en California, members of Peninsula 360 Press announced the start of the "Community Journalism Workshop" in which adults and adolescents will be able to acquire knowledge in writing and photography with their cell phone.
Constanza Mazzotti explained that the program will last four weeks in which those enrolled will receive two sessions per week? On Tuesday and Friday? with a duration of an hour and a half. The workshop will take place in person, however, it will have some special sessions through the Zoom virtual platform in which there will be professional journalism and photography guests.
"We want to learn to tell our story with journalistic principles, but understanding that we do not need large tools, we simply need a pen and paper and we can help ourselves with a cell phone to take the photographs that are required to accompany a journalistic note," he said. Mazzotti and explained that the workshop will be about informative journalism.
To this, he added that students will be supported to tell their personal stories, since the purpose of the workshop is for people interested in journalism who do not have access to large media, to tell stories that must be heard because of issues such as migration , racism or violence, have not been made visible.
For his part, Manuel Ortíz Escámez pointed out that the workshop is of great importance, since sometimes the major media do not give enough relevance to the issues that occur in local communities and that need to be heard.
Finally, Mazzotti explained that the workshop is free and that it is possible due to the support of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Casa Círculo Cultural.
For more information, those interested can call (650) 304-2618.
At the time, Anna Lee Mraz announced the start of the 2023 season of the Kiwanis Farmers Market in Redwood City, which will be open every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the 500 block of Argüello street.
He also explained that the farmers' market brings together local producers and artisans who offer high-quality products such as fruits, vegetables, dairy products, sausages, plants, food from different countries, among others, and pointed out the importance of consuming local products.
"It is very important to eat local, not only to eat healthily but also to contribute to improving the climate change situation we are experiencing," he pointed out.
In this sense, Marcos Gutierrez recommended that the community consume local products, because sometimes supermarket products ?although they can be cheaper? contain pesticides that affect the health of consumers and increase damage to the environment.
He also commented that in Redwood City there is a latent problem with food in schools, because despite the fact that parents and the community have held committees and talks, in which they ask that ultra-processed food not be served to children, schools continue to do so.
“It has been a very slow process, in which we have been working on it for more than a year,” he said.
In the same way, he pointed out that there is confusion among children about the amount of fruits or vegetables they can consume in the food ration offered in schools and clarified that according to the district, there are no limits in these two food groups. .
“Kids think they have to choose either a vegetable or a fruit in their meals at school and the district has told us that there are no limits on fruits or vegetables and they can eat as many as they want,” she said.
Finally, Mraz called on parents to review what food is offered to their children in schools and find a way to change the menus of those that offer processed food.
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