Trailer For A Nation: Reimagining History Through Speculative Storytelling

Trailer For A Nation is a script writing workshop developed and taught by Kialy Thingang, a multdisciplinary Glasglow-based artist. The workshop explores how national identity is constructed, mythologised, and compressed into simplified narratives, just like a movie trailer. Inspired by Kialy’s film Neyinka and the Silver Gong (2024), participants will examine how speculative fiction can reimagine erased histories and challenge dominant national myths.

Through the sharing of Kialy’s research and some creative exercises, participants will craft their own “trailers” for alternate histories, exploring the way film marketing techniques mirror the selective storytelling of national identity.

The workshop will take place on Sunday, the 30th of March from 4 -5:30 pm at the Fumbally Stables, loft.

This workshop programme is for Black people and people of colour who are new to writing. Including those who do not identify as writers but who have an interest in pursuing

Registration is necessary for attendance.

Kialy Tihngang

b. Cardiff, 1994

Kialy Tihngang is a multidisciplinary Glasgow-based visual artist working in sculpture, video, textiles, animation and photomontage, often in collaboration with performers and musicians, involving elaborate handmade sets, costumes and props.

As a British-born Cameroonian, Tihngang’s research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, primarily by designing artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures. 

The works combine the dark humour of Nollywood with retrofuturism, satire and the visual language of advertisements aimed at mass Western audiences. Tihngang uses these tools to explore Blackness, queerness, Britishness, and the crushing structural oppressions that surround these personal themes in absurd ways.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland