Name: Finding Home: The Communities That Shape Us
Start: 2024-12-02T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-02T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Queens Public Library at Hunters Point

Join NYIC and Hunters Point Library for a panel discussion about our immigrant stories, plus a free copy of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"
About this Event

New York Irish Center in partnership with Hunters Point Library present Finding Home: The Communities That Shape Us. As part of the Big Read grant supported by the National Endowment for the Arts by Arts Midwest, Finding Home presents a panel discussion featuring three speakers, each of a different background, discussing their respective journeys in America from their experience as immigrants.

Using the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri as a disccusion point, the panel will discuss what it means to leave home for America and all that that journey entails: to find a footing in a foreign land, assimilate to American customs,and develop and build a new community here.

The panel will feature New York City Council Member Shekar Krishnan, New York City Council Member Julie Won, and National Book Award-winner Colum McCann.

Everyone will receieve a free copy of The Namesake as part of our audience.

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NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with

Arts Midwest.