At this partnership event with the Boro LIKE project, people were invited to talk about how they, their family and relatives came to settle in Middlesbrough and make the town home.
Boro LIKE focuses on celebrating Middlesbrough, a place built on migration throughout history, and applauds the town’s diverse community, through music, art, film and literature. From public discussions, giant storyboards were made together with the people, local writers, storytellers and artists. The stories and information gathered were used as the material for performances by Matt Abbott and Patrick Monahan.
‘The Roads Were Wide’, a new lyric poem by writer, activist, spoken word artist and creative practitioner Lisette Auton shares the stories collected at the event. This was shown as part of the exhibition This Is Water at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima).
The story is part of a larger project New Mappings of Europe, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and including the collaboration of the Museum of Yugoslavia from Belgrade, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, in addition to Moderna galerija. Link: http://www.newmappingsofeurope.si/en
