Community Conversation Event at Museum of Moving Image
SCREENING & LIVE EVENT
Hosted Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC)
The Workers Cup
Part of The Workers Cup
Saturday, June 9, 1:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room
Saturday, June 9, 1:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room
Dir. Adam Sobel. 2017, 92 mins. Digital projection. As the 2018 World Cup begins in Russia, construction is well underway for the 2022 edition in Qatar, where 1.6 million migrant workers labor and live in the shadows of the same buildings they have been imported to make. By day these men sweat in perilous conditions to build the venues for World Cup; by night they compete in a “workers welfare” soccer tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. The Workers Cup follows one team of men from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for soccer and their desires to earn better lives. Each match offers them a momentary escape from the homesickness and isolation they endure as the lowest class in the world’s richest country. Adam Sobel’s penetrating and deeply humane documentary reveals an ad-hoc community of individuals pursuing universal dreams who are nevertheless systematically constrained, and celebrates a sport that unites the world yet subjugates the very people who struggle to make its greatest event possible.
Emerald Isle Immigration Center (EIIC), a Museum community partner, will host a panel discussion after the screening with The Workers Cup director Adam Sobel in conversation with Queens representatives: Rasel K. Rahman, Director, Queens Community Service Center New York City Commission on Human Rights; Kelly Becker Smith, EIIC Attorney/Citizenship Program Manager; Victoria Ceron, EIIC Citizenship Program Assistant; and community members Olga Espinal and Ray Garcia.
Opening Night Film of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Tickets: $15 ($7 Museum members / free for Silver Screen members and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact members@movingimage.us with questions regarding online reservations.)
Ticket purchase includes same-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.
Washington Ireland Program For Service and Leadership
The Washington-Ireland Program for Service and Leadership (WIP) is looking for families in the New York area that would be interested in hosting a WIP student during June-July 2018. WIP is a six-month program of personal and professional development that brings university students from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to New York and Washington, DC for summer internships and leadership training. The program begins and ends with practical service (usually some form of voluntary work in the NGO or political sectors) in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
For more information, please contact:
202 772 3824 or office@wiprogram.org
or visit the WIP website:
http://wiprogram.org/about-us/
USCIS Premieres Video Highlighting its Historic Connections to Ellis Island
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today released a new documentary video, USCIS and the Legacy of Ellis Island, following an internal premiere for the agency’s employees. From 1892 to 1954, the federal immigration service and its employees processed over twelve million immigrants at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor.
The video, created by USCIS, tells the story of Ellis Island from the perspective of those who worked there, highlighting the historical connections between our agency’s mission to administer lawful immigration to the U.S. and this iconic port of entry in New York.
“USCIS holds a distinctive place in history for its role in processing immigrants into the fabric of our nation,” USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna said to employees at the premiere. “It remains an undisputable fact that America is a nation of immigrants. As employees, we all have an essential duty in honoring and preserving that legacy.”
The video consists of three chronological thematic chapters:
Chapter One: Creating Ellis Island: Introduces the audience to the origins of the federal Immigration Service, Ellis Island, and its role in our agency’s early history.
Chapter Two: Working on the Island: Explores the often overlooked roles of Ellis Island’s employees and their importance to the operation of the nation’s busiest immigration station.
Chapter Three: Remembering Ellis Island: examines the closing of Ellis Island, discusses its historical legacy, and emphasizes its lasting connection to USCIS.
The result of extensive historical research, USCIS produced the video with the support of the National Park Service, who provided access to Ellis Island’s historic collections and enabled filming on-location at Ellis Island.