Welcoming Roanoke


Welcoming Week is September 12-20, 2020.  This year, the theme is "Creating Home Together".  

 Roanoke, VA strives to be a welcoming and inclusive community year round!  


Stay tuned for Welcoming Roanoke events that will include an exciting collaboration with the Roanoke Children's Theater!

For more information about Welcoming Week & Welcoming America, click here.

welcoming-roanoke-horiz-logoEveryone is welcome in the City of Roanoke. 

Welcoming Week (#welcomingroanoke; #IAmAWelcomer)

The City of Roanoke celebrated its first Welcoming Week in September 2018. More than 400 people participated in a wide variety of events, including a Soccer Party, Intro to Arabic Class, Multilingual Adult Spelling Bee, a free Cultural Intelligence Workshop, Community Potluck and Immigration Discussion, Welcoming Week Trivia, and a LatinX Job Fair. In addition to hosting events, the city distributed 2,400+ welcomer buttons, stickers, flyers, postcards, and posters throughout the community. 

The City of Roanoke has received the Gateways for Growth Challenge grant, which will provide technical assistance in creating an immigrant integration plan to help make our community more welcoming and equitable for all people. City staff is diligently working on this plan and will share it later this year. 

Find out more information and take the survey at PlanRoanoke.org.

Check out our Welcoming Week "Storyteller Videos" by clicking here.

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Join us at the ARCHES for Story Hour to help showcase Welcoming Roanoke!

Welcoming Roanoke Events:
(If you have an event you would like added, please email: communityengagement@roanokeva.gov)




Breaking Bread Together - Welcoming Week Recipes

  1. Welcoming Week 2020 Breaking Bread Together Recipes.pdf