Diaspora can be defined as any group migration or flight who have been dispersed, especially involuntarily, outside their traditional homeland and scattered throughout the different corners of the world.
About Us…
“We: the Diaspora” is a space where we collect and document the stories of the Hong Kong diaspora.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
~ Milan Kundera
This is an effort to assemble and gather stories from ordinary people who live under the umbrella of history. The humble stories of the common people shed light on the bigger picture often forgotten, capturing the small joys and hopes spilling through the cracks of oppression and brokenness. Art - text, poetry, visual images, sound and music - is the container that will hold our collective memories and tears. We believe in the power of narrative storytelling. The process of listening to these stories and each other can bring forth healing as we re-imagine, re-vision and re-build our sense of belonging, our identity and our common hope.
For people of diaspora, cultural transmission and preservation are at the core of our identity. Aside from gathering and collecting stories, our hope is to explore, assemble resources on the culture of diaspora, focusing on the emotional and spiritual health of people living in exile, and provide support accordingly.
We begin by collecting the stories of the recent Hong Kong Diaspora, hoping to connect, support and share resources with other diaspora groups across the world.
Who We Are…
We are a diasporic people who love Hong Kong.
We wish to create a community that can provide hope and light even in the darkest nights, as we wait for dawn to come.
We serve as firekeepers. We find the ember buried beneath all the ash and we hope to safeguard the gentle flame of hope until it is reignited in our homecoming.
What We Do….
Our work focuses on healing in five stages:
Narrating Our Stories - Capture and record this part of history, we provide a trusted, non-judgmental space for people of diaspora to tell their side of the story, dispelling biases and stereotypes.
Community Building - A space to gather the diaspora, the scattered community, for mutual support and companionship.
Self-Awareness - We hope to journey with the diaspora as they use multimedia, imagination and creativity to transform and transpire through their pain and trauma.
Compassionate Acceptance - Gather and provide physical resources through like-minded communities and offer emotional and spiritual support such that the diaspora might learn to accept our past pain and limitations in order to learn to stand on our own feet. We hope to learn how to be gentle with ourselves as a scattered people.
Reimagining the Future - Reflect on questions about identity, home, reconcile relationships, release hurts and re-imagine our community and the future.
