Monthly Archives: December 2019

An empowering project for older Greek and Turkish Cypriots to share their memories
and feelings about home in Cyprus.

Hands on gardening and planting, the community re-visited and shared stories based on their memory of the nature in Cyprus.

We can see the beautiful created pots on our window where the plants will keep growing. One of our regulars said the wooden structure holding the plants ‘look like a travelling boat’

More info on our collaboration with the museum of the home
https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/learning/communities/?fbclid=IwAR1W5mxehzyDsPDshpy9sYxjTQ0qe3rnf5JUS6sZt83s0f1GJWrrU_EuPb0

14th December 2019 – 24th February 2020, Monday–Friday 10:00–16:00

Recounting the layers of our lives, from one home to another, memories shape us and new land offers new dreams…

In collaboration with Cypriot artist Sümer Erek, Hackney Cypriot Association invites you to step into the stories of our regulars, their coffee moments, warm embraces and passionate debates, embedded in the walls. This continuous project tells the tales of home here and home there, in Cyprus, reflecting the ongoing transitions of life and community, how we adapt and become part of the space where we are…

“Sümer’s transnational contemporary art installations […] stem from participatory
elements of the experience of migration and trauma, interlacing personal and local
histories into social and universal narratives […] These experiences force the
participants and the artist to confront memories that exist in an inactive state […]
‘alchemizing’ dynamic emotions and experiences in the acts of listening,
documenting and display.” Esra Plumer Bardak

The opening night had a great turn over of from our regulars as well as people beyond the Cypriot community. Those themes are themes that many individuals and communities connect with nowadays.