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FREE WORKSHOPS WEDNESDAY 22 MAY
at TATE MODERN, LONDON

20:20 CURATING IN PUBLIC
with SALUSBURY WORLD, FOTODOCUMENT and LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION
12pm – 6pm

Join us for a day of hands-on workshops where young people and families come together with artists and designers to discuss and create around the subject of archives and exhibitions.

12.15pm – 1.45pm
On Creating Oral Histories & Co-Curating Public Exhibitions

Join Nina Emett, FotoDocument Director and 20:20 Co-curator, and Sarah Reynolds, Director, Salusbury World, and gain practical experience of oral history interview techniques according to the Oral History Society, learn more about Salusbury World Refugee Centre’s new project 20:20, and have the opportunity to co-curate our upcoming exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 16 June as part of Refugee Week 2019.

2pm – 3.30pm
On Journeys as Graphic Narratives

© Karrie Fransman

Join Karrie Fransman, Comic Artist & Writer, to discover how to use illustrations to tell true stories. Explore reportage and oral history comics and try your hand at illustrating true refugee stories. All levels of experience welcome.


3.45pm – 5.15pm
On the Storytelling of Objects

© Abd Doumany

Join Abd Doumany, Photojournalist, Artist, Syrian Refugee, and Edo Buttinelli, Designer, Co-curator of 20:20 (London College of Communication). Abd Doumany (1990) is a Syrian visual artist, born in the Syrian capital of Damascus and now based in London. Doumany is currently at London College of Communication as an Artist Protection Fund fellow in residence. Join him to present his installation “Tahjeer تهجير”. An activation of Doumany’s story devised by Edo Buttinelli will follow.

For more information about these workshops click here