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Welcoming Week Salt Lake: Emerald Hills Photo Art Exhibit

What I Brought in my Luggage

2020-09-16 00:00:00 2020-09-16 23:59:00 America/Denver Welcoming Week Salt Lake: Emerald Hills Photo Art Exhibit Learn about the experiences of refugees from Turkey and what they carried with them to their new home in the Salt Lake valley. In partnership with Emerald Hills Institute. Online Event -

Wednesday, September 16
All day

Add to Calendar 2020-09-16 00:00:00 2020-09-16 23:59:00 America/Denver Welcoming Week Salt Lake: Emerald Hills Photo Art Exhibit Learn about the experiences of refugees from Turkey and what they carried with them to their new home in the Salt Lake valley. In partnership with Emerald Hills Institute. Online Event -

Learn about the experiences of refugees from Turkey and what they carried with them to their new home in the Salt Lake valley. In partnership with Emerald Hills Institute.

People’s lives in Turkey changed dramatically after the failed coup attempt on July 15th, 2016. Instead of a proper investigation regarding the perpetrators of the coup, the Turkish government quickly engaged in a mask purge thousands of peaceful and innocent civilians to unemployment, unfair imprisonment, social exclusion, and total defenselessness in the face of State violence and harassment.

People from all walks of life were taken aback by the disproportionate response of the government that turned into a collective punishment. Repeated promises were made of totally ripping out all members of social and ethnic communities which have to be enemies of the state.

This ensured a mass exodus of people from Turkey. Those who were able to fly from the airport with their passport considered themselves lucky compared to those who had to walk across the border by paying all their savings to human smugglers because their passports had been canceled without any due process. Only after they were able to land in safety and freedom that the feeling of a lost country, together with the traumatic memories that darkened the beautiful memories of their lives before the coup.

The objects displayed in this exhibition are the relics of these lost lives, representing the yearning for a homeland that is abruptly and arbitrarily denied to them simply because of their association with a social group. 
This exhibit reflects how Turkish Refugees welcomed and started their life over in the USA after destroying tragedies in their past. 

Learn more and view the photo exhibit online here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/141162700@N06/with/26438161347/ 

View more Welcoming Week events here: https://slco.org/welcoming-salt-lake/

Learn more about Emerald Hills Institute here: http://www.emeraldhillsinstitute.org/index.php/home

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