Storytelling Workshop
Conversations on Making (Personal) History
What does it mean to fashion history out of your own personal story?
How do we decide what to include and what to leave out? What is at stake when we tell these stories? And what is the cost of keeping quiet?
We will play with these questions by using the still image.
Each participant is asked to bring a photograph of herself from any time in her life. That photo will be the starting point. With this exercise, we will touch on the topic of telling a bigger story - fashioning the political, fashioning history - by honing in on a personal, micro-narrative.
Writer and moving image artist, Nika Khanjani, will share a few short examples of this in her own workâboth in finished projects that are in video and in text, and in sketches that illustrate a daily practice and creative process. She will also bring in short excerpts from texts to help frame some of the conversations.
Conversations on Making (Personal) History with artist Nika Khanjani
Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016, 06:00 PM
Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support & Integration (MRCSSI), Waterloo Street, London, ON, Canada
Storytelling Agenda
1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Creating a storytelling space together
3. Nika's work
4. Our stories
Remember to bring a 1 or 2 photos of yourself to work with for your micro-narrative. It can be a photo of you from the past or present.
About Nika
Nika is in London to exhibit her work titled: In Describing Relationships, Rhythm is Important.