There are about 700,000 migrant workers living and working diligently in Taiwan and thus their rights and interests are also matters of public concern. The mobile human rights exhibition ‘Ayo-Ayo! Special Exhibition on the Human rights of Migrants’ launched by the National Human Rights Museum focuses on the rights of migrant workers.
The specially planned ‘I want to hear what you say’ series of activities use the displayed arts as the main theme to show more aspects of the exhibition, enabling audiences to connect with the issues. In November and December, there will be collaborations with non-governmental organizations which bring two exciting events to the public.
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The first series of talks ‘I want to hear you say: the story of the birth of an object’ invites the planner TIWA and guests to introduce how common objects in daily life are manufactured and the audience will understand the hidden stories of the objects & their creators. Most importantly, the underlying situations that migrant workers are facing under the current employment management system are shown.
The mobile human rights exhibition ‘Ayo-Ayo! Special Exhibition on the Human rights of Migrants’. (Photo / Retrieved from Facebook)
In addition to the working condition, the exhibition also focuses on exciting stories of migrant workers’ spirits & life. ‘Writing’ often provides important emotional sustenance to people living abroad, whether it is to record daily life or express emotions of missing family and friends.
The second series of talks ‘I want to hear you read aloud: the creative concept of a literary work’ invites the planner ‘1095 MigrationTaichung (壹零玖伍文史工作室)’, ‘Catholic Vietnam Migrant Workers and Immigration Office (天主教越南移工移民辦公室)’, and migrant workers to share their creations.
These creations, which are closely linked to the life experience of ‘transnational labor’, are migrant workers who use their mobile phones to type words bit by bit after work, and then develope the works into prose, poems and novels that describe their stories of working abroad, feeling homesickness and falling in love.
The mobile human rights exhibition ‘Ayo-Ayo! Special Exhibition on the Human rights of Migrants’. (Photo / Retrieved from Facebook)
The first talk ‘I want to hear you say: The story of the birth of an object’ will be on November 27 from 2 pm to 4 pm on the 2nd floor of the Visitor Service Center of the National Human Rights Museum, Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park.
The second talk ‘I want to hear you read aloud: the creative concept of a literary work’ will be held at the mistybookstore (薄霧書店) at 3F., No. 302, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) from 2 pm to 4 pm on December 11. People who are concerned about human rights may wish to listen to different stories together.
