Upcoming creative events in Brent.
An intimate community gathering for Arab-SWANA residents from Kilburn & Brent to surface, share, and creatively archive personal heirlooms & memory.
Through guided archival practice and creative making, participants will transform heirlooms, photographs, garments, letters, and other artefacts into documented stories that reflect layered identities, displacement, belonging, and community.
This workshop centres on the belief that personal objects are valid heritage.
We are all carriers of memory that speak to migration journeys, intergenerational connection, and the everyday practices that shape our sense of home. By creating space for these stories to be held, witnessed, and archived, we honour how Arab-SWANA communities document and preserve their own histories.
We preserve what we carry. Every home holds a story. نحفظ ما نحمله
We invite you to bring an object that means something to you - an heirloom, a photograph, a recipe card, a letter, a piece of clothing or anything that tells a part of your story as we explore how personal archives help us honour, preserve, and share our histories as Arab-SWANA communities.
Together, we’ll uncover how memory lives in the everyday things we keep and explore how they shape our collective memory.
Organised by Shubbak at Kiln Theare, in collaboration with and facilitated by Hekayyatna's Al and Zeina.
Organised in collaboration with Kiln Theatre, this workshop is part of Shubbak's Voices of Resilience series - a project documenting Arab & SWANA cultural memory in London. The creative pieces and maps produced through the workshop will be exhibited as part of the final showcase at Brent Museum & Archives in Spring 2026. With permission from the participants, their work will also be included in the museum’s archives collection.
