Migration Storytelling Salon: The Shoulders We Stand On

In the ‘Migration Storytelling Salon’, participants use personal objects and documents to discuss how stories, experiences and artistic inspiration are passed down from generation to generation.

You’re welcome to bring your own mementos and share your experiences. This creates a space for exchange about memories, migration and lived history.

This evening, we are joined by the daughters and granddaughters of artists featured in the exhibition ‘Shared Lives: Art and Migration in Berlin’. They will talk about their parents’ artistic and political work and about how the upheavals of the 1970s and 1980s are reflected in their own creative work.

What can we learn from this? How do experiences of migration and exile shape subsequent generations? And what do memories mean for our own sense of identity?

Following the discussion, the evening will draw to a close with drinks.

Featuring:

• Neelesha Barthel | Filmmaker, daughter of Chetna Vora
• Süreç Özcan | Media consultant / singer, daughter of Ertekin Özcan
• Melissa Skármeta Moraga | Dancer/performer, granddaughter of Cecilia Boisier

Live music:

• Tara Meena | Singer/actress, granddaughter of Chetna Vora and daughter of Neelesha Barthel
• Presenters:
• Aurora Rodonò and Antonia Welch Guerra | Berlin Museum, co-curators of ‘Shared Lives’

Venue: Salon (ground floor)

The Migration Storytelling Salon

With the ‘Migration Storytelling Salon’, the Berlin Museum presents a quarterly series of events. In these sessions, participants from migrant and diaspora communities share their stories of migration and resistance. In the spirit of storytelling and oral history, the aim is to share everyday stories from the perspective of migration.

The setting is informal: participants exchange experiences and present photo albums, music or videos that accompany their stories. Visitors are invited to bring their own objects, photos or documents.