NEW YORK PROUD: Stories from the City of Immigrants
DATE
Saturday, September 6, 2025, 3-5pm
LOCATION
Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), 6 WTC, 251 Fulton St.
PRICE
Free! Come late, leave early.
PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
NY Immigration CoalitionSTORIES CURATED & SCRIPT ASSEMBLED BY:
Lee Sunday Evans & Liza ZapolDIRECTED BY:
Sivan BattatDESCRIPTION
Join the New York Immigration Coalition and Waterwell for an afternoon of immigration stories, music, and camraderie to celebrate the vibrant role of immigrants in New York City’s past, present, and future to kick off the Fall 2025 New York Proud campaign. Featuring musical performances by Fogo Azul NYC and the Resistance Revival Chorus.
Join us to hear artists and civic leaders read powerful, wide-ranging stories of belonging in NYC. See the full list below!
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Morgan Spector, Actor (The Gilded Age, The Plot Against America)
Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist and Author, Founder of Define American
Busy Philipps, Actress, Activist and Author
Bitta Mostofi, Immigration Policy Fellow, Former NYC Commissioner for Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
Ruth Messinger, Global Ambassador, American Jewish World Service
Aasif Mandavi, Actor, Writer, Producer
Rev. Stephen Green, Senior Pastor of the Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York
Ty Defoe, Playwright / Interdisciplinary Artist / trans futurist / Citizen of the Oneida Nation and Anishinaabe Tribe
Arian Moayed, Emmy & Tony-nominated Actor (Succession, Inventing Anna, A Doll's House), Co-Founder of Waterwell
Rabbi Dr. Barat Ellman, Fordham University, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)
Celine Song, Oscar Nominated Writer + Director (Past Lives)
Imam Ammar Abdul Rahman, Deputy Imam and Director of Youth and Community Engagement, Masjid Al-Haram USA, Bronx
Fatima Shama, Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Former Commissioner for the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
Dean Fuleihan, Former First Deputy Mayor, Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
