Stories As We Move 2023: A HOME Interview Series
FREE
This is a virtual event.
Watch live on our Facebook page.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Mekdes Woldemariam (Ethiopia/Milwaukee) in conversation with Hlawn Hlawn (Myanmar/California)
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Biluge Ntabala (Congo/Milwaukee) in conversation with Azeb Weldemariam (Eritrea/Milwaukee)
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Karina Tweedell (Ukraine/Milwaukee) in conversation with Melisa Hodzic (Bosnia/Milwaukee)
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: TBC
Stories As We Move: A HOME Interview Series is an ongoing project that launched in 2020 as part of Lynden's HOME virtual platform. The series pairs individuals who have faced forced displacement in its many forms in a conversational setting. Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants interview those that have resettled to the United States, including friends and family that are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as those that remain overseas. The series covers a range of backgrounds and narrative identities, professions, and interests; participants include artists, community members, advocates and leaders, healthcare workers, caseworkers, interpreters, and students and educators. These interviews are reflections of relationships and conversations that we continue to have long after resettlement; they explore issues that our refugee friends and family members continue to face as they remain in their country of origin or interim country.
As we approach World Refugee Day 2023, Lynden’s community engagement specialist Kim Khaira will begin screening interviews from the series on one Tuesday each quarter on our Facebook page.
