Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet representing a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, has come to visit New York City, making her way across the five boroughs through October 2nd. After travelling over five thousand miles around the world since July of 2021 to find her mother, Amal landed at JFK airport on September 14th to spread her message of “solidarity for displaced people” and search for her uncle.
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After Migration: Calabria
“After Migration: Calabria” documents the experiences of a young man who left his home in The Gambia at the age of fifteen as well as a Nigerian single-mother who gave birth to her child in a refugee camp as they integrate into Calabria in southern Italy. “Too often, stories about irregular migration are centered on trauma, and depict seekers of asylum as hapless victims in need of rescuing,” the film’s description states. “This film subverts this commonly accepted narrative by illuminating the regality of those whom we commonly disregard as outsiders.” Directed by Walé Oyéjidé and Jake Saner, the film celebrates “the lives of refugees in ways that dispel tropes” and show them as “nuanced contributors to their new societies, while journeying in search of safe places to call home.”
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Opportunity
Monument
Monument is an installation by Polish-born American artist Krzysztof Wodiczko at Madison Square Park. Wodiczko collaborated with twelve refugees who have fled war and instability in their home countries and have been resettled in the US. The installation features the filmed likenesses of these refugees projected onto the 1881 monument of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, a Union naval Civil War hero. The artist chose the Farragut monument for this project to “compare how select individuals are lionized in wartime and others are overlooked.” With footage and audio from individuals from Africa, Central America, South Asia, and the Middle East, the bronze monument emerges as a “surrogate for refugees whose diverse plights, harrowing journeys, grueling fortitude, and quest for democracy have recently brought them to this country.” The twenty-five minute projection runs from 5pm to 8pm Monday to Saturday through May 10, 2020.
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Shoulder to Shoulder
