Itihash:
Archive Festival

Itihash: Archive Festival explores migrant-led community heritage in Tower Hamlets through storytelling, movement, textiles, rituals and everyday acts of remembering. The wider programme includes the official launch event on Thursday 26 November; Building as Archive, a writing retreat at House of Annetta with Nadia Valman and Zara Dinnen of Queen Mary University; Archiving Black Tower Hamlets, programmed by Numbi/Somali Museum; Across Seven Seas & Thirteen Rivers, remembering the publication ahead of its 40th-anniversary publication in 2027; On Our Terms, a community archive working agreement programmed by An Viêt Archives; Return to Ritual, drawing on Somali culture to reintroduce ceremony and ritual through music, sound and objects, programmed by Fatuma Khaireh of @caafimaad_project; Body as Archive, Caribbean dance workshops programmed by Nzinga Dance; Dig Where You Stand 'What we Keep', a personal-archive workshop programmed by Dig Where You Stand and Sheffield Archives; and Filming Archives!, a short film activating archives through film. The full schedule includes further events and is available from the organiser. The Building as Archive retreat takes place at House of Annetta, 25 Princelet Street, E1 6 QH. The festival is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.