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...
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Jun 15, 20223 min read
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...
Jun 10, 20222 min read
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...
May 28, 20225 min read
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...
May 25, 20223 min read
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...
May 13, 20223 min read
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...
May 6, 20225 min read
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...
May 5, 20223 min read
The Healing Power of Self-Expression: Photography by Female Refugee Artists
Too often, refugees are defined by their flights from violence and persecution. Being seen only as victims makes it difficult to...
Jun 22, 20213 min read
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...
May 7, 20203 min read
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...
Apr 18, 20202 min read
Making Masks, Saving Lives
Like so many other families, Shabila Osmari’s is staying safe at home through the COVID crisis though is struggling to make ends meet....
Mar 23, 20202 min read
Ways to Support Refugees and Immigrants through the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 has left the world in a state of unprecedented crisis. Just within a blink of an eye, our world is facing the imminent forces of...
Nov 17, 20192 min read
Meet Immigrant Food, Washington D.C.’s “Cause Casual” Restaurant
Opening Nov 12 with a Day of Entertainment by Immigrant Artists. With Immigrant Food is the innovative new restaurant that celebrates...
Aug 6, 20192 min read
Meet Journeybird: A Symbol of Unity
Three puppet-like figures: Journeybird, an adult, and a youth. Together, they represent the human flow of migrants fleeing the homes they...
Jul 18, 20193 min read
A Heart in Two Places: Honduras and the United States
The day Maria became a citizen of the United States she felt a rush of emotions as she sat alongside other immigrants during the...
Jul 4, 20196 min read
Pushing Forward: The Story of Marvin Mundo-Hernandez
In 2018, nearly 500,000 migrants from Latin America were apprehended at the US border (Bialik, 2019). After being driven out of their...
Jun 20, 20194 min read
The Life He Wouldn’t Have Known
Peter Karapetkov, like billions of others, had built his life outside of the United States. Peter Karapetkov, like millions of others,...
Jun 18, 20194 min read
A Festival with Tastes of Home
One Journey Festival celebrates the stories, talents, and contributions of refugees around the world. Our second annual festival on June...
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