10/6: Reclaiming Narratives: Archiving Our Lived Experiences
What disappears when no one writes it down? What is lost when only official institutions decide what gets preserved? Archives are never neutral. They show what counts, what is visible, and what gets forgotten.
This programme does things differently. We explore how diaspora communities can preserve and keep alive their own history, on their own terms. Saffa Khalil opens the evening with a lecture on oral traditions as counter-archives. What do voices, songs and stories preserve that paper never can?
Echoes of In*dependence: Archiving the Present
Artist moreiya takes us into the world of zines as a form of resistance and memory. The workshop grows out of her installation Echoes of Resistance, about the women of Afro-Lusophone liberation movements who are so often forgotten. We make something together. Materials are provided.
The evening is part of the exhibition Echoes of In*dependence. Spots are limited — don't wait too long.
Date? Wednesday 10 June
Time? 19:00 – 21:30 (Doors: 19:00)
Location? The Black Archives | archive
Entry? €7.50
Language? English
This programme does things differently. We explore how diaspora communities can preserve and keep alive their own history, on their own terms. Saffa Khalil opens the evening with a lecture on oral traditions as counter-archives. What do voices, songs and stories preserve that paper never can?
Echoes of In*dependence: Archiving the Present
Artist moreiya takes us into the world of zines as a form of resistance and memory. The workshop grows out of her installation Echoes of Resistance, about the women of Afro-Lusophone liberation movements who are so often forgotten. We make something together. Materials are provided.
The evening is part of the exhibition Echoes of In*dependence. Spots are limited — don't wait too long.
Date? Wednesday 10 June
Time? 19:00 – 21:30 (Doors: 19:00)
Location? The Black Archives | archive
Entry? €7.50
Language? English
Meet our speakers
Saffa Khalil holds a BA in African Studies and History and an MA in Heritage and Memory, and is a PhD candidate at Erasmus University's School of History, Culture and Communication. Her research engages Black radical traditions, exploring how they shape ways of understanding, being, and imagining in the world. She examines transnational solidarity and the practices through which communities use alternative media to envision and structure new worlds, attending to sound and other creative mediums as sites of knowledge.
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moreiya is a multidisciplinary artist whose work intersects writing, photography, moving image, sound and installation. With a research-based practice, moreiya examines the politics of the archive, representational agency, and collective and embodied memory. Born in Lisbon from Cape Verdean and Guinean-Bissauan parents, she developed her artistic practice in Italy and the UK. moreiya is 1/3 of the trio rest symbol, 1/2 of publisher Indices Incompletos and has exhibited installations, short films, photographic essays, performances and publications in Maputo, London, Florence, Berlin, Glasgow and Lisbon.
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