Women who live through us

This arts-based dialogue circle brings together women of different generations, from students to the wider community, to explore womanhood across its many phases and dimensions, including those that are sometimes overlooked, silenced or denied.

Through conversation, guided journaling, photography, collage and object-based storytelling, we explore the stories that have shaped our experiences of womanhood, belonging, faith, memory and aspiration.

This circle offers an intimate and accessible space to reflect on what we have inherited, what we choose to transform, and the futures we wish to imagine, individually and collectively.

No artistic experience is required. Participants will leave with their own journal, and, with their consent, contributions will be gathered into a small collective zine.

Participants are invited to bring a photograph, object, text or memory connected to a woman who has influenced them, especially women whose stories have remained untold and whose contributions have gone unrecognized.

A gentle, retreat-like session to slow down and retrace the threads of our journeys: the memories, places, beliefs and experiences we carry, and what we wish to honour, transform or release. We will close by imagining the futures we hope for ourselves and our communities, and by creating our contributions to the collective zine.

Facilitated by Taw’ama El Kaddouri

Presented by the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) and Resisting Colonizations.