Workshop: Feeling at Home

How do we create home in new spaces? What does it mean to belong when borders - both physical and psychological - shape our daily experiences? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion and exploration of how migrants’ place-making strategies connect to and intersect with questions of belonging, care, desire, voice and identity.

This two-part event begins with an intimate panel discussion examining how migrants craft spaces of belonging through everyday practices of care, connection, and creative resistance. Drawing on decolonial and postcolonial perspectives, the panellists will unpack how domestic spaces become sites of identity formation, how diasporic communities reimagine traditional as well as colonial concepts of home, and how the body itself becomes a repository of cultural memory, voice, resistance and desire.

Following the discussion, artist Chloé Das Neves will lead an innovative performative drawing workshop that invites you to explore your own relationship with space, belonging, and embodiment. Through guided exercises, bodies and spaces will enter a new dialogue on what it means to feel ‘situated’, highlighting tensions that characterise those practices of grounding and rooting.

This workshop creates a safe space to examine, explore and express the complex tensions we as migrants feel between rootedness and displacement, tradition and transformation, memory and presence.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Upstairs at the Ritzy, Brixton Oval, London, United Kingdom