WORKSHOP

'Memento: Archiving Memory'

Time: Tuesday May 14, 4pm to 6pm

Location: Thompson Public Library

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Home Made Visible commissioned Indigenous filmmaker Jennifer Dysart is hosting a workshop exploring personal archiving. In this workshop, participants are asked to bring an object of significance to share with a small group. Through activities and exercises, the facilitator will guide workshop participants in expressing the memory or story attached to those objects, to create a mailable postcard and/or an attachable memory tag that can become part of a personal archive.

This is a hands-on workshop and every participant will go home with leave both their original and new archival objects.

Registration is required as space is limited to eight participants.

Questions about the workshop? Please email jdysart99@gmail.com

These events are part of the Home Made Visible project tour:

HOME MADE VISIBLE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Indigenous, Black and People of Colour communities are disproportionately underrepresented in all media. How do past images unearthed from personal and institutional archives come to shape new stories? The Home Made Visible tour brings a personal lens to Indigenous and visible minority archives through FREE exhibitions, screenings, and workshops in libraries across Canada. Visit HomeMadeVisible.ca/Tour

Learn more about the artists at homemadevisible.ca/artists

ACCESSIBILITY

All films have english captions.

If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact us at homemade@regentparkfilmfestival.com, or 416 599 7733, for further information about support.