Stories

Festival Spotlight: César Orozco Combines Love of Jazz with Cuban, Venezuelan Roots

César Orozco has developed a unique style of music that combines his lifelong love of Jazz with the musical influences he experienced...

Festival Spotlight: A Candid Conversation with Video Game Mogul and CEO, Lual Mayen

On the rooftop of a local neighborhood spot, Lual Mayen greets a server, fellow diner, and bartender, all before making his way to his...

Profile: Nyamuon “Moon” Nguany Machar

Her refugee experience helped Moon find poetry, healing, and a passion for helping others. “You’re probably wondering how a person as...

Festival Spotlight: Cheick Hamala Diabate continues the Malian giot tradition of storytelling

Cheick Hamala Diabate is a professional artist, musician, storyteller and a native of Mali, a country in West Africa. Hamala has spent...

Festival Spotlight: Omer Khan Finds the Beauty of Afghanistan Through His Lens

Omer Khan was born in Kabul, and from a young age has been in love with the beauty of Afghanistan. He hoped with each snap of his camera...

Festival Spotlight: Learning From Her Parents’ Pain, Leslie Merriman Created a Culture of Love

Imagine leaving your home to migrate to America in hopes of providing a better future for your family, but being met with resistance...

Festival Spotlight: Vahid teaches yoga to help us unite

Vahid’s conviction is that yoga is to be used as a tool to bring us all together – to unite us. He believes that yoga can be used to...

Festival Spotlight: Gerdan Music Stands with Ukraine

As Ukrainian-born musician Dr. Solomia Gorokhivska and her husband, Grammy Award winner Dr. Andrei Pidkivka, saw the devastation...

Festival Spotlight: Kabul Dreams Turns Garage Rock into the Sound of Freedom

“My sound, your sound; the sound of Afghanistan. We head toward destiny. We head toward peace.” Sadae Man (translation from Dari) Kabul...

Festival Spotlight: Abraham Mwinda’s Opportunity of a Lifetime

Abraham Mwinda is no rookie when it comes to the One Journey Festival. This is his third year participating. Previously, Abraham has...

Festival Spotlight: Pihcintu Multicultural Chorus Helps Restart Young Lives Through Music

Imagine showing up in a country you are unfamiliar with, where you do not speak the language, just before a global pandemic. That was the...

Festival Spotlight: Hussein Smko’s Journey from Hip-Hop Street Dancer to Project TAG

Dancing past the odds Hussein Smko had a calling. He was a hip-hop street dancer from Erbil, the capital of the war-torn Kurdish region...

One Journey Soccer Fest Builds Understanding and Connection for Area Refugee Communities

Last Sunday, a few hundred adults, youth, and volunteers braved 95-degree heat to take part in the One Journey Soccer Fest on the Fields...

15 Things You Can Do to Help Refugees During COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic is being keenly felt in the refugee community – in life-threatening illness, financial hardship, and for recently...