Stories & Insights
Meet Kseniia Opria, 2026 Razom ArtsLink Fellow
A filmmaker and curator from Zaporizhzhia, Kseniia Opria joins the ArtsLink Fellowships through a new partnership with Razom for Ukraine.
Mai Khôi & the Dissidents Live at National Sawdust, NYC
A few months ago in New York, the singer, composer, and activist Mai Khôi took the stage at La MaMa for ArtsLink Assembly 2025: Defending Each Other, sharing her journey of exile from her native Vietnam and her work at the intersection of art and activism. She returns to NYC this March with one of her current projects, Mai Khôi & the Dissidents, which is off to a strong start with the release of a new album and a double-bill concert performance at National Sawdust.
Partner Perspectives | Leish Troupe Manifesto 2026
Our colleague and artist Noura Murad who leads the Leish Troupe performance company in Damascus, remained in Syria throughout the long civil war with the Assad regime, committed to the idea she expressed in 2016 of ‘planting hope, even in the darkest times’. Now at the beginning of a new year in Syria, with the chaotic emergence of a new leadership, she reflects in her ‘Manifesto 2026’ on the role artists, and indeed all of us, must play in building the society we wish to live in.
