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Produced with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund
Placing Memory: Echoes Across Places (workshop)
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 12 PM to 3 PM
In Arabic and in English
At the Gallery
Free (limited spots, reservation required)
For all questions, please write to prakash.krishnan@concordia.ca
Pieces of the past live on in our bodies—memories that don’t always form full stories, but linger as fragments: the smell of a kitchen, the sound of a street, the texture of a grandmother’s shawl. Sensory impressions that accompany us long after we’ve left a place.
Join author and artist Abeer Dagher Esber for an image/word workshop wherein participants are invited to gently unearth non-verbal recollections and attempt to situate them—to find or craft something in their present surroundings that echoes the memory. Participants will be guided to create a video, a photograph, or a haiku that relocates the memory, even in its altered form.
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