About Us
“Cuala’s work brings consciousness that can transform a young woman’s life: she’s never been shown or asked to do anything like this before.”
For example, we co-create films about local history and culture and host songwriting workshops, produce community celebrations, community folklore projects, community portraits, a living history plaque project and book projects.
OUR PROJECT AND PROGRAMS
We host EXHIBITIONS such as #IamIrish at New York Irish Center as part of CualaNYC in 2018 that broke new ground for visibility of Irish people who are also mixed race. Our festival SHEBEENS on Women, Teanga (language), and LGBTQ create belonging and identity with stories, songs, political conversations and poetry: a meeting space beyond the mainstream.
INCHICORE FAMILY PORTRAIT
For three years we collaborated with St. Michaels Family Resource Centre and Core Youth Service on the annual Family Fun Day on the Field in Inchicore for a day of wild fun, bouncy castles, sack races, music, dance, food and just great craic. We set up a Community Portrait Booth and invited people to take a portrait with someone from the community they did not know, as it they were family, because we all belong.
You can check out these and other videos on our YouTube channel.
Jacob Riis Celebration
In 2024 in response to NYCHA’s launch of a year-long campaign to try to convert Jacob Riis Houses to privatization, we produced a Community Celebration with world renowned street artist and former Riis resident Al Diaz. Through a series of workshops with youth, Al created a new sculpture that was installed in The Amphitheater where in 1966 Lady Bird Johnson had declared Riis Houses “the greatest public housing development in America.”
Bomba Loisaida
