Photo credit: Neos Kosmos
Writers Angela Costi and Helena Kidd will explore migration, memory and identity at an upcoming Melbourne event reflecting on the stories passed down through Greek Cypriot families.
Neos Kosmos reports that the event is titled “What We Inherited: Cyprus, Memories & Migration.” The conversation will take place on Wednesday, April 1, at Brunswick Town Hall, coinciding with EOKA Day. The event invites the audience to engage in a discussion about second-generation experience and the role storytelling plays in preserving family histories.
Drawing on their own lives as second-generation Greek Cypriot women in Australia, Costi and Kidd will discuss how family memory, inherited silences, and the feeling of belonging across cultures shape their poetry, memoir, and storytelling.
Kidd said the event highlights the importance of acknowledging migrant histories and documenting personal experiences before they disappear.
“I personally feel it’s important that this event goes ahead, not only because of our past migration history, but also because it’s important for me as a second-generation, that as I get older, I realize how important our parents’stories are,” she told Neos Kosmos.
Cristi said, “I’m moved by the poignanr and essential story that Helena Kidd offers the world about her mother. It highlights a story that will rarely find its way into the historical archives for migrant-settlers of the Cypriot Greek diaspora.”
