Collected Histories is a project co-founded by Hind Mezaina and Jasmine Soliman. Through public film screenings, talks and workshops, its aim is to foster discussion on personal documentation and archiving, with an ultimate goal of inspiring and supporting individuals to become ‘citizen archivists’ by cataloguing, and exploring ways to self-publish and preserve personal collections.

This event will be broken into the following sessions:

Film Screening:
Four short films about archives, memories, and identity followed by a short discussion between Hind Mezaina, Jasmine Soliman with audience participation.

• Don’t Get Too Comfortable (Shaima Al Tamimi, 2021, 9 min)

• Where Am I From? (Nouf Aljowaysir, 2022, 13 min)

• Still Processing (Sophy Romvari, 2020, 17 min)

• The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos, 2024, 17 min)

Workshop:
Attendees signing up to stay for the workshop will be required to bring at least one item from their personal archive, it could be family photos, letters, diaries, heirlooms.