Who Has the Right to Tell Your Story?
mié, 19 de ago
|Art & History Museums of Maitland
Is the best storyteller always the one who was there? A conversation about representation, authorship, and who gets to narrate identity. Welcome to Late Conversations!
Horario y ubicación
19 ago 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Art & History Museums of Maitland, 231 W Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL 32751, USA
Acerca del evento
Late Conversations is a recurring series of open discussions held at the Germaine Marvel Building at the Art & History Museums of Maitland. Each evening brings together a small group around one question, with wine, water or coffee, without agendas, and without easy answers. Conversations are held primarily in English. Language assistance in 25+ languages available upon request.
Representation, authorship, memory, and appropriation collide in this Late Conversations evening. We ask who gets to narrate culture, trauma, migration, and identity, and whether lived experience grants authority, or whether empathy and craft can transcend personal history.
Does experience equal ownership? Can outsiders tell certain stories responsibly? What makes a narrative authentic?
No right answers. Just an honest conversation.
Suggested donation $10. Includes a glass of wine at the door. All amounts welcome, no one turned away.