Artist Sergio Beltrán-García worked with youth artists from Boston (3 of the students are from BLS: Emily Gillis; Tia Hashem and Molly Griffiths)) to make sense of monuments, and memorials, memory, representation, and justice. Through a series of collaborative art workshops, site visits, readings, and conversations, they explored how a memorial can become a tool for positive change and how to critique existing monuments. Together they researched, conceptualized, and built a collaborative memorial in public space that honors personal and collective histories that are important to them. In the process, the students learned about inclusive and participatory approaches to monuments and memorialization, and how to think creatively about questions of history, representation, and accessibility.

Register Here: www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=22904596 to see their collaborative memorial on Sunday 5/1 at the Goethe Institute