AANHPI Heritage Month Digital Connections
Join us in celebrating AANHPI heritage from anywhere-- including home!
To celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage month we’ve put together a few activity ideas for you to try during this month of May. These activities will help you connect with AANHPI heritage no matter where you are in the world!
Daily Art Prompt Challenge
A set of 31 prompts for each day of May to inspire your creative side to incorporate your AANHPI heritage or how folks of AANHPI heritage have affected your perspective and improved your life. These prompts may inspire small doodles to full illustrations, or journaling to poetry and prose.Month-long Challenges
Several activities that ask you to dive deeper on a topic or skill with AANHPI origins. If you happen to love the topic or skill you explore during this month, we highly encourage you to continue learning more after the month ends!
1. DAILY ART PROMPT CHALLENGE
For each day of the month of May, try to make a creative work that is inspired by each prompt. Creative works encompass many things— from visual illustrations to small sketchy doodles, as well as prose and poetry to your own personal journal.
If you want to share your creative works with others and help inspire more people to join in on this challenge, feel free to post them on social media using the hashtags #InspirASIAN and #TheCreativeFolks ! However there’s no pressure if you choose to keep your work private; the point of this challenge is to inspire you to connect with AANHPI heritage on a personal level.
Please enjoy this challenge at your leisure during a break out of hectic daily life— or schedule a small block in your calendar to dedicate some time for reflection. Use your favorite mug to house a fresh cup of tea or coffee, relax in a café or cozy corner of your home, and let your mind run free with flowing ink to trace its whims onto paper.
2. MONTH-LONG CHALLENGES
Try at least one of these activities during the month of May. Feel free to come up with your own activity originating from AANHPI heritage and take this month to explore it too! Share this post if you want to encourage others to try and learn something new this month.
At the end of the month, reflect on what you’ve learned. If you’re comfortable sharing your learning experience, feel free to do so online!
SKILLS
Calligraphy
Mastering calligraphy can take a long time, so try to see if you can master one stroke by the end of the month!If you’re interested in forms of calligraphy that came later, feel free to look into those too!
Yoga
Grab a friend to try this activity with you! Try for at least 1 session of yoga a week (60-90 minutes) and remember to not push your body past its limits.AANHPI Languages
Learn more about AANHPI languages! Try to start a Duolingo streak (or other language-learning app/book of your choice) and keep it up for the month of May.The 5 largest AANHPI ethnicities include: Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Korean
Commonly spoken languages for your consideration: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Japanese
DIVE DEEPER
AANHPI Art
Visit a museum on a virtual tour or take a day trip to visit a local museum! Museums are a fantastic resource for diving deeper into AANHPI history and many of them have their own lists of activities and recommended content to explore.Virtual Tours
Activities or suggested readings
AANHPI Stories
Learn more about AANHPI heritage through stories passed down through the ages and from the present.AANHPI Folk Tales
Read a book by an Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and/or Pacific Islander