'A Sense Of Home' Storytelling Workshop For Latin American Participants

As part of the 'From Myth To Earth/ Mitologia de la Tierra' exhibition programme, The Koppel Project is honoured to be working with professional storyteller Gauri Raje who is leading a day long workshop, working specifically with those from Latino backgrounds, sharing stories of migration, displacement and life in the UK. Gauri's workshop will facilitate and guide in unearthing stories and sharing experiences (both common and unique) across the Latino community.

A later workshop on the 23rd October will be open to people of all backgrounds, allowing participants from the 1st workshop to share their experiences and stories with other peoples and establish shared experiences.

This workshop will be held in English and there will be Spanish and Portugese speaking interpreters available if necessary. The price of the workshop includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

The workshop is located on the 1st floor of The Koppel Project in the large meeting room.

About Gauri Raje
Gauri Raje holds a PhD in Anthropology, diploma in film editing and trained in storytelling with tribal communities in India and UK. Since 2012, she has trained and worked with Theatre of Witness in Northern Ireland and England, a performance approach that focuses on biographical storytelling by people who have no experience with theatre. She conducts annual storytelling modules in India. Since 2007, she has been working with refugees and immigrant communities in the UK on various funded projects relating to urban land and storytelling as a way of understanding the process of settlement among immigrant groups in cities. She has worked with Fusion Arts, Oxford in developing storytelling as a way of creating city-level dialogues between immigrant and host communities. Currently, she runs a year-long storytelling project 'Long Journey Home: True Life Migrant Tales', with monthly storytellings by first generation migrants in Birmingham, UK.

Her projects include directing 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' a collection of stories for adults from around the world translated and told in 3 different Indian languages, and 'Badlands', a storytelling of folk stories of the land and rivers of central India. She has also been touring in Oxford, Stockholm and London with 'Tales of Exile and Sanctuary', stories from all around the world exploring the themes of exile. She is working on a performance that combines stories of her ancestors, traditional folk tales and tales of the land from India.