Category: Culture & events
New Women New Yorkers’ first Cultural Trip of 2019 took place at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. The space belongs to the newly opened Lenfest Center for the Arts, a multi-purpose building designed by Italian Renzo Piano in Upper Manhattan that features art shows, screenings, and symposia. A group of immigrant women attended a guided tour of the exhibit Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, on view through February 10 and one of...
Story and photos by Constanza Prieto Attend Stories That Move Us on October 15! More information & tickets here: https://storiesthatmoveus.eventbrite.com On Saturday, September 29, New Women New Yorkers invited us to the pre-release of their successful storytelling program for immigrant women in partnership with The Moth. In Brooklyn, we were received by a beautiful fall sunset, on a terrace with a scenic view of Manhattan, which served as a backdrop for eight incredible women of different nationalities, ages, and...
Written and photographed by Daria Kurdyukova-Pillot In New York you can experience whatever you want. It has everything and it never ceases to surprise you. The beautiful city full of beautiful people from all over the world gives you a lot of opportunities to feel like you are back in your home country. Food is one of these possibilities. I like cooking and tasting food from different parts of our amazing world. My favorite cuisines are Italian, French, Indian, Japanese,...
Written by Lumi Zogaj. Photos by Constanza Prieto. For Thahitun Mariam, immigration means learning to exist in multiple places. Originally from Bangladesh, she feels at home both there and in her adopted home of New York City. As for Kweighbaye Kotee, who fled the Liberian civil war with her family and now lives in Brooklyn, she still has “an inner yearning to connect to home in Liberia.” Both women were speaking at a roundtable discussion held during Summer Art Fest,...
