Rising from the Ashes: A Convening on reparation and rematriation

The House of the Cultures of the Worlds is to build on the principles of and quest for finding strategies to live and better inhabit this world together. It is a house in which cultures of conviviality and hospitality are lived and disseminated. A physical and psychological space in which everyone has the possibility of breathing. To breathe and let breathe. In this spirit the program is conceived as a two-day congress that invites sensory, discursive, and collective body-making to gather around the practices of rematriation, a term coined by Indigenous women of Turtle Island, describing the restoration of balance to the world by returning the sacred to the mother. The gatherings at HKW aim to achieve cultural rematriation by welcoming the voices of artists and cultural practitioners who actively value and preserve traditional heritage.