Interfaith Center Pop-Up UNITY Event

Interfaith Center is hosting a pop-up art activity in the Thomas Paine Plaza as part of our An Immigrant Alphabet programming! Adapted from a June 2016 interactive public art project UNITY, the event will use identity markers to engage the public around issues of identity and faith.

Date: Tuesday, November 7

Time: 12:00 – 3:00pm

Location: Thomas Paine Plaza

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About The UNITY Project

In June of 2016, UNITY, an interactive public art project, was created as a response to the divisiveness and negative rhetoric in American politics. Created to raise consciousness about the labels we give ourselves and others and explore how those labels both support and limit building interconnected, interesting communities. UNITY is a larger-than-life structure that helps us celebrate our uniqueness and strengthens our ties to each other. The project consists of 32 posts, each with identifiers such as, “I’m a parent; I speak English as a second language; I identify as LGBTQ,” etc. Participants tie colorful yarn to posts that reflect their identities. Their yarn intertwines with others’ to create a web of interconnectedness. In the end, we see that we are all connected by something, and it’s our diversity that builds a strong and vibrant community.

This event is a part of Al-Bustan’s An Immigrant Alphabet, public art installation. A project lead by artist Wendy Ewald and 18 students from Northeast High School in which they explored they’re experiences as immigrants and refugees and how they could represent those experiences through letters of the alphabet.