New York Welsh hosts a monthly meet-up at The Liberty NYC in Manhattan, New York City. Meetups are usually on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Come catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and debate who’s welshcakes are best! Everyone and anyone is welcome!

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Mae Cymry Efrog Newydd yn cynnal cyfarfod misol yn y Liberty NYC ym Manhattan i ddod â'r gymuned at ei gilydd. Dewch i gwrdd â hen ffrindiau, gwnewch ffrindiau newydd, a thrafodwch picau ar y maen pwy sydd orau! Mae croeso i bob un ac i unrhyw un!

New York Welsh hosts a monthly meetup at The Liberty NYC in Manhattan, New York City. Meetups are usually on the 4th Wednesday of the month, but we will have November’s meetup early on November 15th to avoid interfering with the Thanksgiving holiday.

NYW is excited to be partnering with the Cardiff University New York Alumni Association,  who officially launched in NYC last April! If you’re a Cardiff University alumni, please check out the group on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12819095/

Everyone and anyone is welcome and, whether or not you are an Alumni, please join us to mingle with fellow members and learn more about the University’s plans in both Wales and the U.S.

RSVP is not required, but we appreciate a heads up for planning purposes, as always.

We will not hold a monthly meetup in October due to the busy event calendar this month and in November. Come see us on October 14th for the Quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup, where Wales will take on Argentina, and fingers crossed, the Semifinals on either (TBD) October 19th or 20th the following week.

New York Welsh hosts a monthly meet-up at The Liberty NYC in Manhattan, New York City. In September we are joined by Pamela Petro, author of The Long Field, Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir. For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales.

• Shortlisted for the 2022 Wales Book of the Year Award

• One of 6 Best Travel Books of 2021! — The Financial Times

• One of the 8 Best Travel Books of the Year! — The Telegraph

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Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. 
 
In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible Amtrak train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time.