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Carolina Caspa and Hélène Onno joined the library in January 2022 as part of our first year of creative collaborations with the project Gerðuberg Calling! Carolina and Hélène will work on their project Tell Me. They are collecting stories that unite us in all our differences, in all possible languages.
Tell us about myths and folktales from your childhood, mysteries and stories from your hometown. Do you recall any family and community mythologies that make you feel at home, that make you feel like you belong? Stories that give you a sense of community and you want to share with other people!
We want to create a storytelling community, composed of artists, storytellers, and audiences from different ages and backgrounds who are open to telling compelling stories and tales from their home countries, their childhood or stories that carry meaning and importance to them in how they think about home and belonging. Using written and performance exercises, dialogues, and discussions we want to evoke experiences with belonging as a basis for revealing the patterns that connect us. We intend to collect diverse stories in different languages and find out what are the stories that compose Icelandic society today.
More information:
Martyna Karolina Daniel
Project Manager - Equity and Community Engagement
martyna.karolina.daniel@reykjavik.is