Community Workshops

This exhibition was co-created through community-led workshops with LGBTQIA+ participants exploring identity, visibility, resistance, and history. Led by artists Nikita Aaashi Chadha and Aaran Sian, the sessions included poetry, collage, and portraiture, inviting participants to creatively reclaim power and space.

The online poetry workshop reflected on gender and sexuality across cultures and histories, culminating in a collective poem layered throughout the exhibition.

Collage and portrait workshops encouraged expression of queer identity and community, transforming traditional portraiture into a tapestry of connection and self-discovery.

These creative acts weave together past, present, and future—honouring lost histories, making space for new ones, and asking how queer people shape and reclaim heritage today. This exhibition is not an end, but part of an ongoing conversation—inviting us to imagine, question, and create the stories that speak to who we are and who we are becoming.

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