Archiving Emotions Through Curated Stories

📚Lecture: "Archiving Emotions Through Curated Stories"

🎤Speaker: Danayit Zeru (Photographer, Curator and Poet)

What happens to emotion/stories that are never formally recorded? This lecture explores how creative practices like photography, poetry, and curation can act as living archives preserving emotions, memories, and lived experiences that often go undocumented and using it as a form of healing.
Drawing from growing up in Ethiopia and different emotions she's felt, Danayit Zeru reflects on how creativity can hold meaning beyond traditional archives, creating space for faith, belonging, and collective memory. This talk is an open conversation about storytelling as a shared act of care and about honouring what might otherwise be forgotten.

Danayit Zeru (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and poet based in Ottawa. Born and raised in Ethiopia, her work is deeply shaped by themes of cultural identity, memory, belonging, and faith. Through photography, poetry, and curation, she explores what it means to create home across borders and communities. Her practice centers storytelling as both a personal archive and a collective space for healing and connection.

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Agenda

6:15pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.

6:55pm - Host Introduction

7:00pm - Lecture starts

7:45pm - Q&A with Audience

8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks

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