Workshop with Nyangala Zolho and Arjunraj
April 14th | 6 pm
Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 r/c, 1170-112 Lisboa
3rd floor, access by stairs
Free Entry
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNxsFmXf0xu-A9GIs29Y0bBhf1CE8dbNsZ5tJQfEVN6Iub-A/viewform
This workshop is an immersive exploration of storytelling as a tool for reclaiming personal and sometimes erased histories and reimagining collective narratives. Through a collaborative methodology, participants will learn to tell their own stories and co-create narratives with others, moving beyond hierarchical structures toward mutuality and understanding.
Looking into one’s own body as a site for stories and knowledge, the session will be facilitated via fun and interactive exercises, movement, reflective writing, short film screenings, and creative craft-making. Participants can expect to dive into a deep understanding of how personal histories, privilege, and intergenerational experiences shape our bodies and perspectives.
This workshop offers a critical space to engage with pluralistic storytelling and learn how intersectional stories reside in our bodies.
The workshop is designed for creatives, scholars, media professionals, and individuals with migration backgrounds or experiences of displacement, dispositions or cultural ambiguities. It also welcomes students in the humanities, filmmakers, curators, journalists, and community leaders engaged in social justice or civic pedagogic initiatives.
Nyangala is a Policy Learning Designer, Strategic and Decolonial Futurista. Nyangala supports policymakers, communities and innovation ecosystems to use evidence and experimentation to support better decision making. Taking a multidisciplinar approach, they combine strategic design methods with data analysis and ethnographic research to detiver actionable ideas that detiver real-world impact. At the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) based in Nesta UK and Barcelona School of Economics, Nyangala leads an initiative to recover the innovative potential of people and places left out of innovation processes and practices. Their PhD research at BAU investigates policy Learning enviroments that help solve complex challenges such as diversifying and expanding inclusive in innovation. Nyangala mas a research fellow of Creative Impact Research Centre Europe in 2023.
Arjunraj is a filmmaker, multi-modal researcher, artist, and pedagogue currently working as a Research Associate at University of Hamburg, Germany with a MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Münster, Germany. Drawing from a decade of experience in telling stories collaborating with individuals carrying stresses of othering, Arjunraj has been developing a revolutionary collaborative storytelling methodology. Arjunraj teaches this methodology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and travels extensível to teach it. Arjunraj is a recipient of fellowships from Bosch Stiftung, Berlin Senat & CIRCE, U Institut. Arjunraj´s professional experience in filmmaking began in India, producing independent films by traveling across the country on Rail, road and foot, focusing on marginalized communities garnering over 2.5 million views. Arjunraj worked on India´s largest crowdfunded political documentary and on India´s first crowdsourced film produced by Ridley Scott and Google.