The Sister Library will hold a reading and writing workshop with the author of “Shurjo's Clan”, Iffat Nawaz, June 21 at 6 pm at Goethe-Institut.
The event which is open to the public is the second Sister Library reading on memory. Additionally, Daily Star Books Editor, Sarah Anjum Bari, will discuss the act and impact of processing traumatic memories through writing.
“Is childhood always something fragile because we can never remember it as clearly later? When we look back, we often don't trust our observation accuracy or perspective biases. As we grow, we guard these distinct feelings and memories so dearly because one broken piece, one missing sound, could mean an erosion of the whole experience– We want to dive deeper into some of our childhood memories, those we revisit or those which have become a part of our identity, our self-definitions. We want to decipher, bring it closer and perhaps even place it a little further,” explains Iffat Nawaz.
Participants are invited to question why, how and when they remember and how the nature, even the body of memory, is changing with technological advances.
Katerina Don, Creative Director and Co-Founder at CholPori and Curator at HerStory Foundation clarified her interest regarding the topic of Memory, “I am curious (and slightly worried) about what is happening to personal and collective memory. As we use more and more precise and minute ways of recording time, words and output, how is the nature of memory changed?”
Sister Library is a partnership between Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and HerStory Foundation honouring female literary talent. The platform moderated by an “elder sister” organises monthly reading sessions of works by female authors.
