Creating Home Together: Recent Episodes
Thierry & Maurice
Creating home together is a podcast curated, created and produced by Tacoma Refugee Choir to continue with our mission for creating a safe home and space for Refugees, Immigrants, locals and a Global Community at large.
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On this episode Maurice talks about spreading love. “Even when you don’t get positive attitude back after you spread love around you, for me it is okay, it won’t stop me, that is my only wing I have to fly with... That is my only choice, and my choice is to spread love. We are leaving together, if we don’t spread love, then what are we doing?” Maurice
Here is Episode 3 of Creating Home Together podcast! Recorded at Moonyard Studio.
In this episode, Maurice and Thierry talk about "Love and Hate and what we can do to love others and feel loved. “People spend a lot of money on material things like building space ships yet are incapable of spending a little effort to love someone which costs nothing!" Maurice says.
Episode 2, Maurice and Thierry talk about their experience after arriving in the United States at SeaTac Washington. “The first thing that hit me once we landed at SeaTac was cold! It was winter around December, and I remember feeling my ears getting frozen and my fingers numb”. Thierry
| Thierry and Maurice talk about their journey from The Congo to the United States and how they are involved in the community and how they have made Tacoma their home. Maurice is the Fundraising Associate at TRC working with the administration and the community to identify donors to help support the work of the choir by raising donations. Contact: +1(206) 492-4225 e-mail: maurice@refugeechoir.org Thierry is the Community Engagement Coordinator for TRC working with the community to identify spaces for opportunity for the choir to be involved whether its performing or sharing the choir’s story and how it has impacted the life of its members and the community. Contact: +12532578680 e-mail: thierry@refugeechoir.org