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Thursday, June 17 @ 7:00 PM
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Pride & Refuge Storytelling Night with PRISM and KAMA DC
Please join us as PRISM celebrates its first Pride Month as a community group of AsylumWorks. PRISM is partnering with KAMA DC to host a storytelling night featuring stories from asylum seekers on the theme of pride and refuge. June marks two internationally-honored observances: Pride Month and World Refugee Day. Though these events seem worlds apart, the themes of taking pride in one’s self and identity and seeking safety and refuge in one’s family, friends, home, or foreign land are prevalent in both. |
PRISM (Pride Refugee Immigrant Support Meet-Up) is a community group at AsylumWorks. PRISM is made up of asylum seekers and volunteers working to build an open and affirming peer community where LGBTQ asylum seekers feel comfortable just being themselves. To do this, PRISM hosts LGBTQ-focused activities, community-building events, and engages in advocacy initiatives that advance the interests of LGBTQ asylum seekers.
Pride Month is a national observance celebrating and encouraging LGBTQ+ pride. It honors the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBTQ+ rights movements. World Refugee Day acknowledges communities of people who have fled their home countries in search of safety, refuge, and human value. It calls for people of refugee status to be proud of this unsolicited identity marker.
Many of our speakers identify with and relate to both themes based on their experiences and journeys in life.
The event is free with a suggested donation of $5. All proceeds help provide trauma-informed social services, employment support, and community connections for asylum seekers in the DC area and beyond.
Pride Month is a national observance celebrating and encouraging LGBTQ+ pride. It honors the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBTQ+ rights movements. World Refugee Day acknowledges communities of people who have fled their home countries in search of safety, refuge, and human value. It calls for people of refugee status to be proud of this unsolicited identity marker.
Many of our speakers identify with and relate to both themes based on their experiences and journeys in life.
The event is free with a suggested donation of $5. All proceeds help provide trauma-informed social services, employment support, and community connections for asylum seekers in the DC area and beyond.
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Thursday, June 24 & July 1 @ 7:00 PM
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Celebrating Latin American Short Stories Workshop Series with Mateo
Love writing? Love literature? Come join our workshop series celebrating Latin American writing! In these two live workshops, you will learn new techniques based on the boom period of Latin American writing to help you stimulate the flow of your own creative writing. Both established and aspiring writers welcome. |