Talking circle: The Road to Nowhere presents – show and tell from the diaspora

22 Oct 2022 11am-1pm

Overview

How do objects pass down memory? What stories do they tell? How can they inform our identities? These are the questions The Road to Nowhere will be exploring in this show and tell centring around the stories, memories, and archival powers that objects hold for people in the diaspora.  

As children of diaspora, objects and stories have been a vital source for contextualising our places in society and as comfort. They can teach us about our personal histories and shape how we define ourselves in the present.   

Using this as a starting point, The Road to Nowhere invite you to participate in a talking circle where you can share with the group an item that is significant to your own notion of identity. This could be anything, from an item of clothing, a piece of jewellery or a book, all the way over to a toy, a household object, a piece of art, and so on. It could also be something metaphysical, like a story, a poem, a recipe, a song, a dance, a ritual, or a prayer. 

The Road to Nowhere particularly encourage folks to bring something that asks us to think more widely about forms of archiving and storytelling.

This event is open to people with a history of migration, in the broadest sense.

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