Reading the Migration Library, in partnership with criticalMediArtStudio at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, will soon be embarking on an experimental creative project that will creatively circulate (or migrate) writing and art about diaspora. New funding from SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) will enable researchers and students from SFU’s School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) to work alongside artists and writers from Ghana in a project that publicly circulates their work using innovative approaches to web-based and interactive technologies. This project, which is being lead by Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, cMAS Director, and Lois Klassen, RML artist host and cMAS researcher, will take a research-creation approach in examining how issues of migration, displacement, and diaspora, can be considered alongside the possibilities for innovative publishing in online environments. The involvement of SIAT students and cMAS, in partnership with LOATAD and Ghanaian writers, is expected to reach new online audiences. SFU’s CEI funding will enable exciting public events and online exchanges. Watch for more announcements about those events in the summer of 2021.
