Our dear Layla @laylasidik . Our project teta. With her comments, her food, and her love. With her smooth words of poetry capturing the love and pain her life had seen. She has contributed so much of herself to the world and now the world is holding her asleep. We will miss you dear Layla. We know you’re watching down on us hugging us with your open arms and calls for peace. So much to celebrate. Rest In Peace.
(First image made with @peoplespaperco_op ).
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Settling in Philadelphia:
World-wide, 92,400 refugees were resettled in 2018 ▪️More than ¼ of Philadelphians are immigrants or the US-born children of immigrants (approximately 390,000 people); 1 in 4 city children fall into this category
▪️Between 2000 and 2016 the immigrant population increased by 69%, and immigration rates grew from every continent but Europe
▪️Immigrants in the labor force increased by 89%
▪️In 2016, some 794 refugees were resettled in Philadelphia, the highest number since at least 2002. The largest group was 245 individuals from Syria.
Northeast and South Philadelphia are the top areas for immigrants:
📍Chinese and Korean immigrants are largely in the Lower Northeast, West Philadelphia and Chinatown
📍Southeast Asians mostly settled in South Philadelphia and Olney
📍Caribbean immigrants generally settled in the Olney and Juniata areas
📍South Asians and Eastern Europeans tend to live in Somerton
📍Many Mexicans, Guatemalans, and other natives of the Americas settled in Southeast Philadelphia
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In 2001, the United Nations designated June 20th as World Refugee Day: a day to highlight the lives and experiences of the more than 70 million displaced people around the globe. Philadelphia, which has become the home of more than 100,000 refugees since the 1970s, has celebrated Philadelphia World Refugee Day for over a decade.
This year, Philadelphia World Refugee Day will be celebrating the refugees and immigrants that call Philadelphia home during the week leading up and including June 20th.
Throughout the week, we look forward to highlighting the diversity of our refugee neighbors, spotlighting refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs, and sharing food, music, and stories. Be sure to follow this page so you can participate in the celebrations all week!
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Request: We are creating a digital map - to be shared on FRIDAY - of all of the places where our #PhillyWorldRefugeeDay2020 friends are from! 1st-generation, 5th-generation, 27th-generation? All are welcome! Add your country of origin in the comments.
#PhillyWorldRefugeeDay #PhillyWRD #PhillyWorldRefugeeDay2020 #PhillyWRD2020 #WorldRefugeeDay #NeighborhoodsBeyondBorders #RefugeesWelcome
Congrats to @gdloft_phl for receiving an award for your design of our catalog - it truly reflects the process and goals this project had in mind. Didn’t get one? You can buy a copy on the @booklynart website!
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GDLOFT won an award from DNA Paris design competition for the book we designed for Swarthmore College's Friends, Peace, Sanctuary project! Couldn’t be happier to share this news with everyone involved! Special Thanks: @pewcenterarts@swarthmorecollege@fpsbookarts@wittygrittyphl@sassemblage Printed on @neenahpaper Link in profile. #print #neenahpaper #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #graphicdesign #friendspeacesanctuary #graphicdesigner #graphicdesignstudio #book #philly #bookdesign
While this project has come to an end in its initial concept, the spirit of the project continues with the start of an Arabic community newspaper in Philadelphia. This is the first one in the area since the first one that was published in Philadelphia in 1898 called Al-Huda (the guidance). It can be found at different Arabic stores across Philadelphia. Did we miss the one you go to? Let us know! Thank you to all the contributors to this first issue that was put together by Yaroub Al-Obaidi and Nora Elmarzouky- @abosaad.alfarrajy designed the logo and wrote an article, Sally Baraka wrote an article on the importance of voting in upcoming primaries, @fula_mml shared about the mosque of samara, mohamed wrote about Mutannabi Street, @ali.glass.etching shared philosophy of fasting, poetry from @laylasidik and @herkalosama , recipes from Asmaa Diab and Samah AlKassab, contributions from @albustanseeds photos from @hussam_alobaidi and @sassemblage . This is a quarterly community paper - do you want to contribute? Do you have something to write? Do you want to advertise? Reach out to [email protected] or call 4844740569.
From our dear friends at Booklyn. Stay safe out there!
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ENVISION NEW WAYS 🌈 SUPPORT ARTISTS 💫 GIVE GIFTS 🎁
ALL TOGETHER NOW We love Booklyn Artists! The regular income we provide is a critical resource, and we are doing everything we can to continue to provide this. Our fundraiser care package ALL TOGETHER NOW is 100% for artists. Every purchase goes to regular artists' payments while our business is on pause. We also love our amazing friends at @radixmedia , @interferencearchive@halfletterpress and @justseeds whose work is featured in this care package. All inspiring explorations on mutual aid projects, cooperatively-owned businesses, collectivized labor, and other mutually supportive modalities. Also, will competition for resources be seen primarily as something that harms and divides us? Will we wear masks now and for always? 💥 Bonus material alert: Jan Descartes' handmade seed paper you can use to start your quarantine garden.🌱 **LINK IN BIO**
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‘The Broken Family Tree’ that was displayed in the Sanctuary exhibit with City Hall was largely put together by project collaborator, artist, and Chef Asmaa Diab. Yesterday was the first of three days of Asmaa’s bead making workshops supported by @muralarts .
‘The Codex Project is an intensive project and exhibition of artists who are annually invited to create authentic, open-ended artwork individually within a bound book over the course of a year.’ Join this new artist collective for the opening reception this Friday at Works on Paper Gallery in Philadelphia.
Asmaa Diab - project collaborator, artist and the chef behind the Syrian Kitchen - will be sharing her delicious food at the Exchange next Wednesday. This is the last event in a series of programming that activated Castor Ave including gatherings hosted by another project collaborator and amazing chef, Samah and another artist Sahar that took place earlier this fall. Funded by the Creative Avenues grant of the Office of Arts Culture and Creative Economy (@creativephl ), Mural Arts Porch Light and Oxford Circle Community Development Association (@occcda ) collaborated to continue to support artists from this project and others in the northeast to continue to showcase their art - especially the art of hosting with delicious food and great conversation. Join us for this multicultural holiday gathering at the Exchange next Wed!
Do you love zines? We do! Sticky Family -a comic book created from a workshop facilitated by josh graupera @graupy.sim and Yaroub Al obaidi @yaroubali and illustrated by Eric Battle @battlelinesrdrawn - is part of the collection! .
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Sneak peek of the zine magic 💫 we have in store for 2020. If you like what you see, you will 💚💛❤️💙 #BooklynZineClub ///link in bio/// :
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Last 2 days to view ‘Collaborative Works on Paper’ currently on display in Brooklyn at @booklynart at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. See our previous map to get there.
#brooklyn #syrian #iraqi #bookarts #arts #iraqsolidarity #syriansolidarity #arab #arts #arabarts #swana #books #literacy #narratives #refugees #resettlement #artastherapy #community #friends #peace #sanctuary #nyc
Rest In Peace Rep Elijah Cummings. May he be an inspiration to elect representatives that will fight to make sure all constituents are seen and represented as human beings.
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Rest in power Rep. Elijah Cummings. We need more people in our government to stand up and fight for the human rights of children who continue to be detained for profit. #repelijahcummings #endfamilydetention
