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NYC Street Art: Eduardo Kobra’s Ellis Mural

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Photo By Gail

Covering the western-facing side of City-As-School in Manhattan’s West Village, Eduardo Kobra’s enormous Ellis mural is a riot of color, featuring five giant faces surrounded by the Brazilian artist’s signature geometric patterns in pink, purple, blue, yellow and green.

Created in 2018, the mural is Kobra’s tribute to the immigrant experience in New York and the millions of people who left their homelands in search of a new life. The five faces represent people of different ethnic backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of those who have made New York their home. Kobra says the work was inspired by New York’s long history as a destination for immigrants.
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Echoes of Arrival: Becoming Explores the Many Stories Behind Immigration

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What does it really mean to arrive somewhere new? For many immigrants, arrival is only the beginning. Echoes of Arrival: Becoming, a new iteration of the Museum of Chinese in America’s signature storytelling theater project, explores the complicated, often ongoing process of finding—and redefining—a sense of home.

Opening Friday, October 2nd at 7:00 PM, Echoes of Arrival: Becoming brings together seven immigrant performing artists with roots in Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. Through a combination of personal storytelling, music, and dance, the intimate performance looks at what happens after the initial act of migration: adapting to a new culture, navigating questions of identity and belonging, and figuring out which parts of your past to leave behind and which ones to carry forward.
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