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A Brief History of Immigration in Harrisonburg
The Shenandoah Valley has been a cultural crossroads for thousands of years. The biodiverse climate has supported a multitude of people groups from hunter-gatherers in the Archaic age to Native American tribes who resided in the area until the early 1700s.
The 2016 Harrisonburg International Festival: A Recap
September 24th was a hot Saturday for the cusp of fall--a perfect day for enjoying a sweet ‘mango loco’ on a stick sprinkled with lime juice and chili powder. By the early afternoon, Hillandale Park was swarming with people at Harrisonburg’s 19th annual international festival. Put on […]
Announcing Taste of the World 2016!
NewBridges is located in a town where children in the City schools come from families that speak a total of almost 50 languages. Our remarkable diversity is the reason that NewBridges exists. As a community based agency, we are funded almost exclusively from individuals and churches. Over the last 10 years, our yearly fundraiser has […]
Join us for our 15th Anniversary Celebration
NewBridges began in October 2000, after a group of local Mennonite churches spent time thinking about how to provide welcome and support for newly arriving immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley. After a busy year of starting a new Immigration Law Clinic and moving office locations, we are pleased to take an evening to Celebrate this […]
Visual Echoes of Voices Unseen: A Photographic Exhibition
Come join us for a night of images and voices of immigrants from our Harrisonburg community, with artists Anita and Christian Fonseca Quezada. Exhibit available to the public on: May 19, 2015 from 5:30-10pm inside the EMU Commons at the Margaret Martin Gehman Gallery.
Announcing: Taste of the World 2015!
Get ready for our 9th annual "Taste of the World"! Enjoy an evening of food from around the globe, with special emphasis on our hermanas y hermanos centroamericanos and their culture, food and music. Date/Time: Saturday, March 21, 2015 @ 6PM Location: Park View Mennonite Church 1600 Park Rd Harrisonburg, VA 22802 Pricing: $65 per […]
An Exhibit!
On Saturday June 28th the women from the Common Threads group held their 3rd quilt exhibition at “A Bowl of Good” restaurant. The first two exhibitions were held at Park View Mennonite Church, consequently this is their first exhibit that is fully open to the public. Many people came to celebrate these gifted women’s stories […]
Join us for the Common Threads Quilt Show on June 28
Come and join us for the Common Threads Quilt Show on June 28, 3-5 PM and 7-9 PM. Hosted at: A Bowl of Good 1047 Port Republic Rd Harrisonburg, VA 22801 abowlofgood.com
Harrisonburg’s Quilting Group: the art of sewing stories
A couple of walking partners, an unrelated quilting exhibition and a casual conversation at the hairdressers’. All the people involved in of those seemingly random situations had one thing in common: their interest to incorporate the arts as a form of storytelling. This led to the “providential birth” of Common Threads/Hilos en Común, as director […]