Mady's (Madhumini Rajapakse) Stories of Home

Mady is an artistic individual who loves teaching and writing poems. She is a Sri Lankan who recently moved to Canada and is currently working as an ESL professor at Sheridan College which has become her second home. She believes in the power of passionate individuals who are constantly working towards a more inclusive and a loving society and identifies herself as one of them.
She shared this piece with Living Hyphen at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum + Archives to honour the stories of finding (or not finding!) home, community, and belonging in Peel Region. This storytelling gathering was in anticipation the new exhibition Stories of Home: Finding Community and Belonging in Peel, which examines the newcomer experience in Peel and Canada. As hyphenated individuals who call the nation-state of “Canada” home, but who also have roots elsewhere, we invited storytellers to explore their migration journey and how it felt to lay roots in Peel.
Living Hyphen is a community that explores what it means to live in between cultures. Our mission is to reshape the mainstream and turn up the volume on voices that all too often go unheard. Learn more at www.livinghyphen.ca.

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