The Shared Migrants Archive is open for contributions!

The Shared Migrants Archive documents what it feels like to be a migrant on the island of Ireland: it is an ongoing project which invites contributions of words, reflections, drawings, and scribbles, expressed in any language or style, in answer to the following prompts:

How does it feel to be a migrant on a ‘shared island’?

When do you feel the border?

How does the border feel?

The archive is anonymous, responding to and evolving through new contributions, insights, and community preoccupations. We think of migrancy as expansive – relating to lived experience of migration rather than a legal status; we think of the border (Irish or otherwise) not as a physical line but as a regime of exclusion – from territories but also rights and histories.

This closed workshop during TULCA is an opportunity for local migrant communities to meet, see some of the collection from the archive, and work with artists Bojana Janković and Nessa Finnegan to expand it. You will use found text, collage, collective writing, and counter-mapping to document what it means to be a migrant in Galway – and how this local experience relates to Ireland (the country) and Ireland (the island).

No prior experience needed. Tea/coffee included.

Image: courtesy the Shared Migrants (Archive)

Email: info@tulca.ie to book a place