Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
A hands-on workshop to map your ancestry through objects, memory, and storytelling, and become part of a future exhibition at OSCAM.
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March, OSCAM and artist Bevan Agyemang present the workshop Weaving Memory. A hands-on gathering to trace personal and collective ancestry through objects, photographs, oral memory, and embodied storytelling. The work we create together will feed directly into an upcoming exhibition at OSCAM later this year, making everyone who joins a co-author of a living, collective archive.
The workshop responds to histories shaped by colonial displacement, and the deeply interwoven legacies of the African diaspora. It creates a shared space where our personal archives are treated as living knowledge, as valid and vital as any official record. What do we carry with us, and what has been lost? What can we recover together, and how do we pass it on?
We invite you to bring one to three items that hold meaning: old family photographs, letters, textiles, ceremonial objects, or a voice note carrying a story that has never been written down. Digital copies are welcome if originals feel too fragile.
Together, we move through sessions of object witnessing, ancestral mapping, and cross-lineage conversation. Using collage materials like tracing paper, thread, and photographs, we each create a visual map of our lineage. We are guided by feeling and intuition rather than facts or timelines. Come as you are. Bring what you have. Your memory matters here.
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
Friday March 27, 2026 | Saturday March 28, 2026
5PM-7.30PM | 2PM-4.30PM
@ OSCAM | Bijlmerplein 110, 1102 DB, Amsterdam
A hands-on workshop to map your ancestry through objects, memory, and storytelling, and become part of a future exhibition at OSCAM.
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March, OSCAM and artist Bevan Agyemang present the workshop Weaving Memory. A hands-on gathering to trace personal and collective ancestry through objects, photographs, oral memory, and embodied storytelling. The work we create together will feed directly into an upcoming exhibition at OSCAM later this year, making everyone who joins a co-author of a living, collective archive.
The workshop responds to histories shaped by colonial displacement, and the deeply interwoven legacies of the African diaspora. It creates a shared space where our personal archives are treated as living knowledge, as valid and vital as any official record. What do we carry with us, and what has been lost? What can we recover together, and how do we pass it on?
We invite you to bring one to three items that hold meaning: old family photographs, letters, textiles, ceremonial objects, or a voice note carrying a story that has never been written down. Digital copies are welcome if originals feel too fragile.
Together, we move through sessions of object witnessing, ancestral mapping, and cross-lineage conversation. Using collage materials like tracing paper, thread, and photographs, we each create a visual map of our lineage. We are guided by feeling and intuition rather than facts or timelines. Come as you are. Bring what you have. Your memory matters here.
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
Friday March 27, 2026 | Saturday March 28, 2026
5PM-7.30PM | 2PM-4.30PM
@ OSCAM | Bijlmerplein 110, 1102 DB, Amsterdam
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
Op vrijdag 27 en zaterdag 28 maart presenteren OSCAM en kunstenaar Bevan Agyemang de workshop Weaving Memory. Een hands-on bijeenkomst om persoonlijke en collectieve voorouders te traceren aan de hand van objecten, foto's en mondelinge overlevering. Het werk dat we samen creëren, zal direct bijdragen aan een aankomende tentoonstelling in OSCAM later dit jaar, waardoor iedereen die deelneemt mede-auteur wordt van een levend, collectief archief.
De workshop reageert op geschiedenissen die gevormd zijn door koloniale verdrijving en de diep verweven erfenissen van de Afrikaanse diaspora. Er wordt een gedeelde ruimte gecreëerd waar onze persoonlijke archieven worden behandeld als levende kennis, even geldig en essentieel als elk officieel document. Wat dragen we met ons mee en wat is verloren gegaan? Wat kunnen we samen terugvinden en hoe geven we het door?
We nodigen je uit om één tot drie voorwerpen mee te nemen die betekenis voor je hebben: oude familiefoto's, brieven, textiel, ceremoniële objecten of een spraakopname met een verhaal dat nooit is opgeschreven. Digitale kopieën zijn welkom als originelen te kwetsbaar aanvoelen.
Samen doorlopen we sessies van objectgetuigenis, ancestral mapping en gesprekken tussen verschillende afstammingslijnen. Met behulp van collagematerialen zoals calqueerpapier, draad en foto's creëren we elk een visuele kaart van onze afstamming. We laten ons leiden door gevoel en intuïtie in plaats van feiten of tijdlijnen. Kom zoals je bent. Neem mee wat je hebt. Jouw herinneringen zijn hier belangrijk.
Workshop Ancestral Mapping: Weaving Memory
Vrijdag 27 maart 2026 | Zaterdag 28 maart 2026
17:00-19:30 | 14:00-16:30
@ OSCAM | Bijlmerplein 110, 1102 DB, Amsterdam
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