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Next week, archival objects will take center stage during the exhibition Objects that Remember and the storytelling workshop What We Carry: Portable Homeland and Resistance in Exile. ✨The exhibition Objects that Remember brings together materials connected to the suppression of protests and political activism in Hong Kong in recent years, and to the anti-communist purges in Indonesia that began in 1965. In the exhibition we explore how objects carry memory across time and space, and how displaced people and objects negotiate the continuity of their struggles, remake homes, and imagine futures beyond exile. The exhibition runs one week, from Monday 15 to Friday 19 June. On Monday we host the opening reception with talks from the curators Rika Theo and Liona Li and special guests. For more information and to sign up: https://lnkd.in/esuMAvXw ✨ What We Carry: Portable Homeland and Resistance in Exile extends the exhibition’s questions into a participatory setting. The storytelling workshop on 19 June invites participants to imagine displacement – something that may seems distance to some, yet remains an everyday reality for many across the world. The resulting works will be compiled into a collective zine or collage. Participants will receive a copy as a keepsake. If you would like to take part in this workshop, organised by Liona Li, Rika Theo, Julie Ren and Maggi W.H. Leung, please register before Friday 11 June 2026. More information: https://lnkd.in/eqgQxEXb The events are funded by Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration, Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), and Governance and Inclusive Development - GID UvA. Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) For the Hong Kong section, some materials are kindly loaned by NGO DEI, Loretta Lau, Kacey Wong, and Edison Ng.