Drifting Youth: Undocumented and Awkward
This YouTube series produced by undocumented youth uses situational comedy to express the predicament of living paperless in the U.S.
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Thinking of 9/11 During the Holiday Season
A multimedia project called ‘Together We are New York: Asian Americans Remember and Re-Vision 9/11’ transforms personal stories into poetry. The piece will be performed on December 18 in Manhattan.
Podcast: Yoni Ki Baat – The South Asian ‘Vagina Monologues’
In this Fi2W podcast, reporter Aswini Anburajan interviews Vandana Makker, one of the founders of the performance series Yoni Ki Baat on the importance of exploring women’s sexuality through a cultural and immigrant lens.
Plans For New Reality TV Show – Warsaw Chicago – Upset Polish Immigrants
Some Polish Americans are concerned about how they will be portrayed in the upcoming reality TV show. But the show’s producer says he wants to “emphasize the positive.”
‘My Lolo Screamed at Me: Why Are You Telling the Family Stories?’
Performance artist and activist Kilusan Bautista has a personal brand of hip hop theater. His latest work, ‘Universal Filipino,’ is a solo theatrical piece debuting in New York this weekend. Jocelyn Gonzales sat down with Bautista to find out more about his background and art in an interview for TheFilAm.
Middle Schoolers Become Storytellers While Learning English
Through Story Studio, an innovative ESL program operating in five public middle schools in NYC, immigrant children learn English through telling personal stories they have developed, written and illustrated themselves.
Podcast: The L.A. Philharmonic’s Charismatic Conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel is inspiring young musicians in Los Angeles. Reporter Pilar Marrero produced a story about him for our radio partner Studio 360.
In John Sayles’ New Film, ‘Amigo,’ An Ambiguous Friendship
The intrepid director of ‘Lone Star,’ ‘The Secret of Roan Inish’ and ‘The Brother From Another Planet’ is tackling a little-known episode in American history, the Philippine-American War and subsequent colonization.
An Immigrant Telenovela from New York: ‘We Have Come to Take Your Jobs’
Using the genre of Latin soap operas as a starting point, artist Viva Ruiz conceived a biting pastiche and performance art piece called “Immigrantula” about the struggles of undocumented immigrant workers in New York.
South Asian Immigrants Celebrate Culture in NYC
At a street fair in Queens, the multifaceted South Asian community came together for a celebration of art and music, but also to talk about pressing issues in their community like foreclosures and domestic violence.