10,000 MEMORIES: Pop-Up Museum, Book Signing, Storytelling, Music, Food.

The 1947 Partition Archive brings to you the 10,000 Memories launch weekend, in collaboration with our outreach partners, the Institute of South Asia Studies at University of California at Berkeley. Explore untold stories of World War II, Partition and Independence in South Asia.

BOOK ARRIVAL COMMEMORATION!

Join us for a book signing (limited number available), a POP-UP exhibition, soulful live music and live storytelling. Go back in time to the 1940s with us on October 12 and 13! Travel across South Asia, from Afghanistan to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, exploring the mid 20th century through a thought provoking exhibit based on our now released book, 10,000 Memories. We will be exploring untold South Asian histories through the exhibit and through a conversation with the editors as well as co-producers.

A panel of witnesses will shine light on their own experiences of living through Partition and World War II, through live storytelling.

Volunteers enjoy free entry to the entire event. Volunteer sign-ups for this event are approved on a first come basis. Please fill out this form to volunteer. Three hour minimum requirement.

October 12 (SATURDAY)

• 11:00 AM Exhibit Opens
• 11:30 AM onwards - Book Signing
• 2:00 PM Panel with book editors (limited space)
• 3:00 PM Musical Performance (limited space)
• 4:30 PM Close

October 13 (SUNDAY)

• 11:00 AM Exhibit Opens
• 11:30 AM onwards - Book Signing
• 1:00 PM Witness Panel
• 2:00 PM Q & A with book editors
• 3:30 PM - Close

Live Music performance by Sawaaz. A unique blend of sufi, pop and South Asian folk music, featuring Noor Lodhi, Asim Wali, Manesh Judge, Michael Anand and Shazi Lodhi.

Light tasty finger foods will be served, along with tea.

SIGNED COPIES: We're offering a limited number of signed copies of 10,000 MEMORIES to event attendees.

After more than a decade of field work across the mountains, deserts, villages and cities of South Asia, we are tremendously honored to announce the arrival of our first book, 10,000 MEMORIES: A lived history of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia. Book 1, the inaugural volume of the 10,000 Memories series, draws on stories from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east, and Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the south, to provide vivid insights into the 1947 Partition in South Asia, unlike any previously written.

10,000 MEMORIES is a passionate labor of love by 40 editors, curators and artists, as well as 30 contributing authors, featuring the stories of nearly 400 Partition witnesses. Every page in this book is the result of hours of oral history documentation work.

A stunning visual narrative featuring story excerpts and over 1,000 photographs helps you journey across the Indian subcontinent, experiencing history vicariously through stories. The book unveils new threads of histories that contextualize the 1947 Partition within the larger global impacts of World War II. It is the most comprehensive work yet, on lived histories of Partition. The stories are evocative and bring history to life. You may cry, you may find yourself laughing uncontrollably or simply find yourself spellbound.

The book has no front or back, and opens on one side in Afghanistan in the west and on the other side, in Myanmar in the east. The stories showcased give voice to diverse communities previously left out of the larger narrative of the 1947 Partition and mid-20th century South Asian histories.

We cannot wait to share this book with you, and to see how all of you receive this two year project in the making.

To learn more, visit: https://10000memories.com

PARKING AND ACCESSIBILITY

Street parking is available in abundance in the area, some with 2 hour limit and some unlimited (please note the posted signs). Our block is also serviced by the AC Transit Bus 12 and Bus F. Additionally Bus 18 stops just a few blocks away, while the Ashby BART Station is just a 7 to 10 minute walk from here. The exhibit space is wheel chair accessible.

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