This Place, That Place and the Other
For migrants, answering the question about where we come from is never simple: we are the products of the different places in which we have lived and the people who have surrounded us.
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Category: Essay
In Search of Home: Hiraeth Celebrates Two Years
A look back at how Hiraeth started and what’s in store for this year.
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In A Blink Of An Eye
Have you ever thought about a window when you thought of home? I don’t mean the metaphorical...
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The Blood of the Soul
I spent my morning at the Italian consulate today, submitting my application to become Italian....
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A Sail For Peace
“…It was our way to abolish government-made borders and show the world as one beautiful nation whose ruler was the sea, where nature’s laws are strict, yet simple, and the inhabitants are all equally unique.”
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The Good Old Language Struggle
Yesterday I was thinking of the downs of living “abroad”. I must say I very rarely put myself this...
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Walking into a Memory
One of the beautiful things about moving often is that you experience the “little...
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The Lily and the Rose: Living Between East and West
“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the...
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Home as Metaphor
I woke up this morning from a dream in which I’d just bought a new house. It was a big...
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The Roots of Dispersion
I often wonder how it feels to be tied to a place, to know that your history happened there, that...
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The Privilege of Home
My view about the concept of ‘home’ drastically changed when I saw my...
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Authentic Identity – Filipino Kids Growing Up Abroad
One of the things we’re very keen on here at Hiraeth is reframing the narrative of migration...
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PODCAST
- Hiraeth Ep. 28- Coming of Age in Trump's America 16/07/2018I had the pleasure of talking to two very astute young ladies. My daughter Luna and her friend Okxana. Both are 19 years old and go to college in Los Angeles, California. Luna has grown up between Europe and California. She lives in LA with her mom during the school year and, with her brother, […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 27- Heritage From Below 02/07/2018A year ago, Hiraeth was invited to participate in a session on “Whose Heritages Matter” during a conference at Wageningen University in the east of the Netherlands. Meghann Ormond, Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen, speaks about her own heritage, from her two passport countries, the U.S. and Portugal, as well as the Netherlands, […]
- Hiraeth Ep 26- Harbours and Horizons 18/06/2018Our new Hiraeth poetry editor, Jez Keighley, talks about the beginnings of his poetry career, musical influences on his poetry and his poetry/music collaborations with 3Bop, an Italian jazz artist. Jez is originally from the north of England, and “ran away” to university when he was 18. After moving to Vienna for love and then […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 25- Heritage and Identity 04/06/2018Welcome back to our second season of the Hiraeth Podcast! This season will be focused around the themes of “heritage and identity.” What is heritage and how do we pack it with us from one place to the next? What does it mean to preserve one’s heritage and when does that become a bad thing? […]
- Hiraeth Ep. 24- Calmness Amidst Chaos 20/11/2017Francesca Aikman is an artist from the North West of England who lives and works in Amsterdam. She arrived directly after finishing a degree in Fine Art at university in Preston to take up a residency at OT303, and, without her really realizing or planning it, Amsterdam became home. Recently, she has been making small, […]
