The Map Has No Borders - a storytelling workshop for those from diaspora, migrant and mixed heritage communities

In-Person
MAR 28

Saturday, March 28

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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About

Within each of us lives a map. A breathing record of where we've been, where we come from, and where those before us have walked. Held in the body, woven into memory, carried in our ancestors' stories, it quietly guides us: stay here. move on. come home.

For those of us from diaspora communities, with colonised heritage, or whose families have known forced migration, these maps can be especially layered. The question of where we belong rarely has a simple answer. Home can mean several places at once, or none quite completely. And the stories that shape us are often ones we've inherited rather than lived, carried across borders and down through generations.

This workshop is an invitation to bring those maps into the world and explore what they hold, together.

We'll work through storytelling, making, drawing and conversation, uncovering the maps we navigate by: maps of belonging to many worlds, maps that can lead us home.

Questions we'll sit with:

How far do our maps reach?

What threads connect the different parts?

What stories of longing and loss, of dreams and desires, have been carried along the way?

What you'll take away:

You'll leave with a piece of creative work you've made yourself over the course of the morning. Many participants also find that the process of naming these journeys, and hearing others name theirs, brings something unexpected: a new clarity about their own story, and a sense of being understood.

We gather in a space of genuine welcome, with room for up to 12 people.

No prior experience needed.