Events
Join the table, hear the stories, and build bridges with the Miry’s List family by attending one of our upcoming events.
Join Independent Shakespeare Co. and Miry’s List on World Refugee Day 6/20 for Syrian dinner benefiting families resettling in Southern CA as refugees. Tickets
Miry's List is bringing awareness and support towards the vital need for community-based programming to welcome, integrate, and support resettling refugee families in those difficult first months so they can thrive in our communities. The evening brings together the Miry's List community to indulge in an elaborate Afghan dinner by new arrival chef, Aqila Asghary. Dinner will be followed by dessert and tea service. Register Here!
Celebrate the release of Our World is a Family — a picture book about welcoming new arrivals into our communities! TICKETS
Join us at 11am PST on International Womens Day for a livestream panel hosted by LA World Affairs Council to highlight the challenges Afghan women face as they abandon decades of hope and progress and capitulate to the reality of the Taliban. Both in resettlement and in reshaping their Afghan lives, women are facing unprecedented challenges. Register here.
Join us September 21,at 12PM PST for a virtual event with Miry Whitehill and Ahmed Abedy of Miry's List, Josh Kun of USC Annenberg, moderated by Ehsan Zaffar of Homeland Security. Register
Ana huna for the food! Support Miry's List this Labor Day weekend with a Syrian picnic brunch to go. In partnership with Spread Mediterranean Kitchen and New Arrival Supper Club, lunch is made by Abeer Aljrafi, new Angeleno from Syria. Available for safe curbside pickup in downtown LA or contact-free LA delivery on September 5 and September 6. Buy Now
GIVE. EAT. PARTICIPATE. Miry's List is raising $50,000 to help 100 resettling families get through COVID-19.
Join us for Valentine’s Dinner at Spread Mediterranean Kitchen this February 14th as we celebrate the 3rd anniversary of our program New Arrival Supper Club with a beautiful array of dishes prepared by the incredible Chef Evan Kleiman of KCRW's Good Food and Chef Naseema Kasehfi, a new arrival mom from Afghanistan. TICKETS
HOSTED BY JENNA FISCHER Each November, Miry's List, a nonprofit organization serving over 350 families who have recently resettled in America, recognizes leaders who have been impactful in making Los Angeles a more welcoming city for immigrants.
Join your neighbors for a free, family friendly event in Los Feliz! Miry’s List will be there demoing and sampling hummus with New Arrival Supper Club and participating in a panel about how we’re making LA more welcoming for resettling families.
Silver Lake NC discussing Miry’s List program Welcome, Neighbor to discuss enrolling as a neighborhood.
Join us at Oxy Arts for a free community event with New Arrival Supper Club. Syrian dinner prepared by the Trad family from Syria. Guests will learn about what it’s like for families resettling in Los Angeles as refugees and how we can help. Tickets are limited, reserve now!
Join us for Afghan dinner prepared with love by the Kashefi family. Tickets available now.
Join us at Hammer Museum for their annual Family Day. Pop upstairs to the Hammer Store for Storytime with Miry’s List starting at 12p, featuring books about inclusivity, diversity, and how we can help folks resettling in our city. Tea and desserts for all, coffee for parents and caregivers.
Silver Lake NC discussing Miry’s List program Welcome, Neighbor to discuss enrolling as a neighborhood.
Update: Hermon NC votes a unanimous YES to join Miry’s List as the 15th Los Angeles neighborhood making our city more welcoming for resettling families. Thank you to our new Hermon Liaison Katherine! Together we are amazing. See full meeting agenda here and learn more at miryslist.org/welcomeneighbor.
We have the best volunteers ever. If you are a Miry’s List volunteer, you should have received an email with a link to RSVP for our annual Listmaker Appreciation Brunch! If you have not received yours but believe you should have, email listmakers@miryslist.org.
This month, at Compass's Old Town Office, and incredible opportunity to
grow your understanding of what life is like for resettling families, specifically: How it works, how it feels for families, and how we can help-- with speaker Miry Whitehill, founder and executive director of Miry’s List.
Join your neighbors for this free community gathering in support of Miry's List families at L.A. ROAD Thrift Store in Glassell Park. Food, games, raffles, and music! Everything is free and ALL. ARE. WELCOME.
This event will feature the global work of United Nations Women while honoring local efforts here in Los Angeles.
Join us at The Jane Club on the evening before World Refugee Day for Syrian dinner, cocktails, honoring sheroes, and making Los Angeles more welcoming for resettling refugee families. Tickets
An afternoon of fun in northeast LA featuring music and food benefitting Miry’s List
Join us for a public board meeting with the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council as they adopt the Neighborhood Welcoming Resolution as part of their participation in Welcome, Neighbor.
Join us for a public board meeting with the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council as they adopt the Neighborhood Welcoming Resolution to become the 13th NC to join the pilot of Welcoming, Neighbor this year.
Spread the Love Mothers Day is here! Spread the Love is a 4-part dinner series pairing new arrival chefs with notable chefs in LA. Proceeds benefit Miry’s List to support families resettling in America as refugees.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
Welcome, Neighbor was a featured LA2050 winner at Ciclavia Wilmington! We gave our recipe cards and made welcome cards for resettling Angelenos
Spread the Love II is here! Spread the Love is a 4-part dinner series pairing new arrival chefs with notable chefs in LA. Proceeds benefit Miry’s List to support families resettling in America as refugees.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
Join Miry’s List at the Los Angeles Homelessness Resource Fair in Grand Park to meet organizations creating change for homeless Angelenos. And stop by the Welcome, Neighbor booth to say hello and learn about our program for activating Angelenos around helping their resettling neighbors.
Come to the Skirball for a Passover-themed evening in partnership with the nonprofit Miry’s List and explore the themes of freedom and redemption through food and storytelling.
Rabbi Sarah Bassin (Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills) will begin by relating the Jewish value of welcoming the stranger to both the Passover story and the experience of refugees today. Then, enjoy wine and an elaborate Syrian dinner infused with the symbols of Passover and prepared by a family who recently resettled in LA. Finally, listen as Evan Kleiman (KCRW’s Good Food) moderates a discussion with the chefs about their arrival stories.
