Join the memory box show and tell

Inspired by the nostalgia captured in k.Koria's paintings, you have the opportunity to share your memories to preserve your story for future generations.

Workshop includes a guided conversational curator tour.Bring an object to share and document for our archives.

Bring in your unique greeting card or your wedding invitation or letter and share your stories with the memory box team that include Dr. Sanjukta Ghosh from the SOAS and Curator Khyati Koria green.

Visitors are asked to share their stories relating to the object bought in, memories of the event it represents and the way it connected you to family, friends, past and present.

• What does the object mean to you?

• What is the role of a greeting or invitation card in todays digital world and

• How does this connect to your past?

The event includes a guided tour of the exhibition exploring the theme of memories.

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More about the memory box project

The Memory Box concept was first used at the SOAS South Asia Heritage Month festival drawing from the exhibition on Narratives of Refugee Memories in the SOAS Library curated by Sanjukta Ghosh in the Wolfson Gallery that looked beyond the political event of Partition, building on the conceptual category of 'dispersed diasporic communities' which displayed some of Kamal Koria's paintings on the effects of Partition leading to migration from homeland and the survival of displaced communities in the UK. Using a large box filled with old letters, photos, diaries, cards and other memorable objects, as the visual centre piece for reflection, audience members are requested to share their stories and fragments relating to their childhood memories, migration, partition, taking new journeys and more. Memories connect us to our family, friends, past and present. They are able to recount trauma, sadness, happiness and laughter. They are a sense of belonging and security and shed light on where we came from. This process of recollection in a group is intertwined with 'seeing the exhibition' as part of a gallery tour that opens up the artist's work to broader interpretation. Memory box establishes an emotive and personal connection with public art display that we think will be quite unique to this exhibition's outreach activities.

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This Memory Box project is designed for the festival drawing from the ongoing exhibition on Narratives of Refugee Memories in the SOAS Library curated by Dr. Sanjukta Ghosh in the Wolfson Gallery that looks beyond the political event of Partition, building on the conceptual category of ' dispersed diasporic communities . To learn more about the original event held in 2022 Memory Box: Voices of Migration and Border Crossing | SOAS

About Kamal Koria -
'From India to Leicester and artists journey' This exhibition tells the story of local artist K. Koria and his drive to pursue a career in the arts. It explores his life from his early beginnings in India, to how he came to establish himself as the UK's first Asian Graphic Artist.

Host or Publisher Kranti Parekh