Storytelling Workshop: What We Carry - Portable Homeland & Resistance in Exile
What would you carry if you had to leave home suddenly? How would you sustain connection, and continue resistance from elsewhere? What We Carry: Portable Homeland & Resistance in Exile extends the exhibition’s questions into a participatory setting. This workshop invites participants to imagine displacement – something that may seems distance to some, yet remains an everyday reality for many across the world.
Drawing on inspirations from the exhibition, alongside additional contributions shared in person or through written and non-textual materials, the workshop explores how ordinary objects can carry histories, identities, and forms of resistance across borders. It asks how people recreate a sense of home under conditions of displacement, and how memories and political commitments continue to travel through material objects.
To foster an intimate and meaningful exchange, participation is limited to 30 people. Participants will go through the exhibition together and be guided to imagine their own life afar from home, and consider what they might carry, leave behind and create. Participants are invited to express their reflections in a creative format of their choice, such as a short poem, drawing, photograph, or narrative.
The resulting works will be compiled into a collective zine or collage. Participants will receive a copy as a keepsake, and the publication will also be shared via the ARC-M and CUS platforms.
If you would like to take part in this workshop, please complete the registration form by Friday, 11 June 2026. For any enquiries, please contact us via: rika.theo@iisg.nl.
Practical information
Date: 19 June 2026
Time: 09:00 - 14:30
Venue: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam
Language: English
