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