The Immigrants

The Immigrants, a sculpture by artist Luis Sanguino, celebrates the “diversity of New York City and the immigrant experience.” Located downtown in Battery Park next to Castle Clinton, which served as a depot to welcome the growing number of immigrants to the US before processing was transferred to Ellis Island, the sculpture depicts an Eastern European Jew, a freed formerly enslaved African man, a priest, and a worker. Sanguino’s sculpture depicts the struggles that various peoples have faced as they came to America either through voluntary or forced migration.

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.”

Simple Statement of Fact

Beyond My Imagination