NWNY’s Immigrant Women Storytelling Group in partnership with The Moth empowers immigrant women to use their unique voice to embrace and share stories of lived experience. The program not only boosts participants’ self-confidence, communication, and English language skills; It is a transformative learning experience which illuminates their true potential and enriches their audiences.
Credit: THE MOTH.
The program begins with an intensive and interactive workshop series facilitated by experienced storyteller-artists from The Moth Community Program. They use a variety of group techniques, like interactive brainstorming, improvisation, visualization, and mind mapping, to unleash participants’ creativity and to support them as each crafts a unique and authentic story.
Following completion of the workshop series, we invite graduate storytellers to participate in a series of community and public performances to share their story. Typically, the first performance takes the form of a ‘Final Share’ for the loved ones of graduate storytellers, followed by a performance open to the NWNY community, and culminating in one or more public performances.
2021 program
14 immigrant women from Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, and Thailand have joined our 2021 Immigrant Women Storytelling Group with The Moth.
Immigrant Women Storytelling Group is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by LMCC. LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.
Past editions
Listen to the story of Graduate Navrioska Mateo, from the 2018 cohort, who puts her dream job in peril in Life Plan, Rebooted.
Read on our blog about some of our past community performances and Stories That Move Us public events.
Storytelling with The Moth at the Tenement Museum, June 2017 2017 cohort of NWNY Storytelling Program with the Moth 2018 cohort of NWNY Storytelling Program with the Moth Feedback session at the Storytelling program with the Moth, in 2019 2019 cohort of NWNY Storytelling Program with the Moth
