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Storytelling program with the Moth

Culture & events

May News: Immigrant women learn how to craft their stories with The Moth Community Program

This month, New Women New Yorkers welcomed a new cohort of our storytelling program in partnership with The Moth. Each year, the collaborative program trains a group of up to fifteen immigrant women in the ins and outs of storytelling: How to identify personal stories and build an interesting one, and how to share it in a captivating and confident way. The four workshops span across two weeks and conclude with a recorded final share to an audience of family...

Portraits & interviews / Real People. Real Lives.

Real People. Real Lives: Meet Ana Luiza, from Brazil

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Real People. Real Lives, a NWNY photo exhibit on immigrant women, we are looking back to some of the participants’ stories. The exhibit featured photographs of 16 women in iconic NYC spots and neighborhoods by Dru Blumensheid. The portraits, along with audio recorded interviews, show a nuanced and multi-layered picture of the immigrant women who make NYC their home, the barriers and isolation they experience, as well the hopes, dreams and talents they bring with them....

Portraits & interviews

A conversation with filmmaker Sontenish Myers

The Caribbean-American filmmaker discusses how her immigrant identity in America has shaped her creative work. Written by Alexandra Harris Sontenish Myers is a Caribbean-American filmmaker whose work grapples with racial identity, womanhood, power dynamics, and the heroic journey.  Her most recent short film, Cross My Heart, tells the story of an American teenager girl who visits her family in Jamaica and discovers a secret that changes the way she sees the people she loves. She then faces the decision of...

Culture & events

Community brought together by the music

Phil the Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s new initiative, is a warm welcome to a public who may never before have set foot in its concert hall. Written by Bruna Shapira This April, NWNY Cultural Trip took us to Phil the Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s new initiative to welcome New Yorkers dedicated to public service to its concert hall. For most of our group, it was the first time there. “Our community is formed mainly by recent immigrants. It...