Working with Artists

At Intersections International, we value the way hearts and minds can be changed through art. Be it through song, a painting, or poetry, the arts serve as a common thread that both texturizes and humanizes our social justice programming. 

In our work with Iraqi refugees, we see the powerful effects of using art to call attention to one of the most pressing and underreported humanitarian crises of our time. Through a modern dance, Wishes of the Sailor, and theatrical piece, No Place Called Home, Intersections has used art to address the plight of this vulnerable community.  

Our work with veteran and civilian communities affected by war has used the arts as a tool for healing through productions such as Nothing Means Nothing, Memorial Day: When Remembering Makes You Want to Forget … and Forgetting Makes You Want to Die, and In Our Voice: Women Veterans Tell Their Stories. Together with the ongoing Veteran-Civilian Dialogue project, Intersections is bridging the gap between these two communities by bringing them into conversation.

Intersections also hosted the 2010 Intercultural Understanding Film Series, which screened several films and documentaries to promote interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue. Additionally, our support of the TE’A Project has brought together young artists who use theater to address social justice issues in their local communities. They have already performed such productions as Under The Veil: Being Muslim and Non-Muslim in New York City Post 9/11, and Home/Front, a theater piece that addresses the hidden costs of war affecting veteran and civilian communities.

Intersections’ arts initiatives are a part of the “Arts at the Intersection” program, which has produced more than 30 events to further social awareness of the diverse social justice issues on which Intersections International is working.

For more detailed information on some of our larger arts initiatives, please click on the links below.

No Place Called Home

The TE’A Project

Wishes of the Sailor