ART: Marissa Rodriguez Schimizzi critiques the ‘simple rules’ of fitting in.
Category: Photos + Art
Before (I was the woman I am today)
ART: Slobodanka (Bobby) Graham knits together layers of her heritage, reaching for the Cyrillic that eluded her growing up.
A Piece of Moldova
ART: Madalina Valeanu recreates a familiar pattern from her childhood in Moldova.
‘SETTLED / UNSETTLED’ – AN EXHIBITION OF ART ON REFUGEE, ASYLUM SEEKER AND MIGRANT EXPERIENCES
EXHIBITION: At ‘Settled / Unsettled’ – an exhibition of art touching on refugee, asylum seeker and migrant experiences.
Summer sketches and a life of poetry
BOOK LAUNCH + POETRY: be:longing reflects on an evening co-hosting conversations on cross-cultural art and poetry.
Reject and project
PAINTING: Jey Gar explores the destabilisation of identity that can occur through migration.
Interview with Nastaran Mazloumi
INTERVIEW: Nastaran Mazloumi talks with be:longing about her artistic practice and how her migration story and cross-cultural background have shaped this.
Our Multilingual Poetry Evening
PHOTOS: be:longing gives a rundown of its recent Multilingual Poetry Evening, and shares beautiful photos from the event to boot.
FACADES AND OTHER BAGGAGE
ART: Mariana del Castillo explores the resilience of migrants in the face of unfamiliarity and impermanence.
ART: Janhavi Salvi explores the complications of adopting and navigating an imperial language.
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