Exhibitions
London – Strand Gallery (26th – 30th March 2014)
This exhibition was supported by the FCO and the organisational support of Voices for Reconciliation – a group of second generation Sri Lankans promoting dialogue within the diaspora
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- Entrance to the Strand Gallery and the photo-essays on display
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- Infographics of some stories with QR codes that take the person to the website, was a commentary on how history aggregates information to facts and figures, losing out the valuable stories of the individuals that lived through it.
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- The Strand Gallery space worked very well for the Herstories exhibition
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- Collective memory mapping
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- Trees of Life and Letters from Mullaitivu, Kilinochi, Batticaloa, Ampara, Moneragala, Vavuniya and Kurunegala
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- Many spent hours reading the material, sometimes coming to see the exhibition repeatedly
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- Voices for Reconciliation, a group of young Sri Lankan professionals that facilitate inter-ethnic dialogue within the Sri Lankan diaspora. They provided support to organising the exhibtion
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- Opening of the exhibition – Curator Radhika Hettiarachchi speaks about why womens’ voices are left out of history. She also spoke of the importance of oral history in creating empathy for the other which is the basis of reconciliation
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- Most people found the videos emotional and thought provoking. They are in Sinhala or Tamil with English subtitles
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- Minister Hugo Swire having a preview of the exhibition – he wrote that it was a ‘timely exhibition’ showing mothers’ strength and hope and was ‘important to hear all sides’
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- The event hosted about 300 people overall with about 70 individuals coming for the opening event
