Event Details
Date
08/11/2025
Time
12:00 - 13:30
Location
Galway Arts Centre | 47 Dominick Street
Event Type
Workshop,
The Shared Migrants Archive is open for contributions!
The Shared Migrants Archive documents what it feels like to be a migrant on the island of Ireland: it is an ongoing project which invites contributions of words, reflections, drawings, and scribbles, expressed in any language or style, in answer to the following prompts:
- How does it feel to be a migrant on a ‘shared island’?
- When do you feel the border?
- How does the border feel?
The archive is anonymous, responding to and evolving through new contributions, insights, and community preoccupations. We think of migrancy as expansive – relating to lived experience of migration rather than a legal status; we think of the border (Irish or otherwise) not as a physical line but as a regime of exclusion – from territories but also rights and histories.
Artists Bojana Janković and Nessa Finnegan are holding an open studio session at the start for the festival: an opportunity for local migrant communities to meet, see some of the collection and add to it. Drop in to explore the archive and try your hand at using text, collage, collective writing, and counter-mapping as we document what it means to be a migrant in Galway – and how this local experience relates to Ireland (the country) and Ireland (the island).
Image: courtesy the Shared Migrants (Archive)
TULCA 2025: Strange lands still bear common ground runs from 7-23 November 2025 across multiple venues in Galway city.
See www.tulca.ie for full programme, including projects, events, workshops, tours & talks.
