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# Gallery of Human Migration

Stories of Migration, Identity, and Belonging.

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- [We Are the Architects, We Are the Architecture](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/we-are-the-architects-we-are-the-architecture/) - Three bottles by the bedside — milk, juice, water — placed every night by a father who had no other language for care. It is one of the images at the heart of Her Story, a dialogue between a first-generation immigrant and their second-generation Canadian partner, honoured in the Gallery's inaugural Migration Literary Award. In this conversation, the Prairie Collective reflects on what it means to build a story together, how memory unlocks itself in layers, and why belonging is always under construction.
- [Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/top-25-canadian-immigrant-award/) - At eleven, Rocco Maragna landed at Pier 21 with nothing certain but the father waiting on the other side. Decades later, the founder and president of the Gallery of Human Migration has been named one of Canada's Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2026—recognition that traces back to the same question he carried off that boat: how does a place come to hold the people arriving in it? His story, and the community that helped tell it, are still being written.
- [The Door He Chose to Open](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-door-he-chose-to-open/) - He was eight years old when he started narrating his own life from a Toronto curb, watching puddles run toward the storm drain. Decades on, Mohamed Hammoud's award-winning story "Reclaiming My Name" became the seed of a memoir arriving this October. In this Threshold conversation, he talks about the name he set down as a child, the one he's still learning to carry without shaking, and what it costs to decide which chapters of a life deserve to exist on the page.
- [The Car That Carried the Story](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-car-that-carried-the-story/) - Ana-Maria Posada-Borda has been thinking about car rides for as long as she can remember—not the destinations, but what her parents said in those moments, facing forward, the cost of each word only clear to her later. Born in Montréal to Colombian parents who arrived before she did, she is eighteen years old and already published. Her story, submitted to the Gallery of Human Migration's inaugural Migration Literary Award, received the Honourable Mention. In this conversation, she reflects on writing in secret, the surprise of being read, and what she would say to anyone sitting with a story they're not sure belongs.
- [The Music She Carried](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-music-she-carried/) - A fiddle melody rises through the floorboards of a house in Oxford, and Winnie—stubborn, curious, already bending the rules—follows the sound upstairs toward a coughing Canadian soldier and a life she couldn't have invented. In War Brides, Elisa Bryce weaves four generations of migration and music into a single voice. The Gallery of Human Migration spoke with the 2025 Migration Literary Award Honourable Mention about inherited courage, the women who held the story, and why she kept writing.
- [The Nest That Holds The Story](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-nest-that-holds-the-story/) - Keiko Honda arrived in Vancouver in her early forties—navigating a new city from a wheelchair, hosting cultural salons in her living room, telling herself she was an observer. Then four words in an email changed everything. In conversation with Gallery Executive Director Nancy Perin, Honda reflects on what it truly costs to move a story from the private desk to the collective container, whose voices live inside the stories we think are ours alone, and why the doubt you feel about telling it is not a warning. It is the clearest sign that it matters.
- [A Mirror, Not a Memorial](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/a-mirror-not-a-memorial/) - In 1945, a Japanese family stranded north of Korea's newly drawn 38th parallel survived not through strategy or strength, but because of one Korean ship captain's quiet, unwitnessed act of compassion. That act is the reason Keiko Honda exists today. In this interview, Gallery of Human Migration Executive Director Nancy Perin speaks with Honda about her grandfather's translated memoir, The Broken Map Home: Escaping Korea, 1945—and what his story reveals about empire, migration, and the patterns of racial discrimination we are still living inside now.
- [What A Story Costs](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/what-a-story-costs/) - Story is not free. A reflection on the Migration Literary Award, what it revealed, and the road to The Tapestry.
- [The Gallery's Standing Invitation to Visual Artists](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-gallerys-standing-invitation-to-visual-artists/) - Sabrina Aureli stood at the edge of the frame—a balcony, a moon, a sea—and called it Beckoning. That image opened the Gallery of Human Migration's first featured visual artist collaboration. Then Andrew Duff arrived, with his eye for the honest, uncomfortable, sometimes funny weight of being human together. Two artists, two cycles, one continuous thread. The Gallery's invitation to visual artists is standing and permanent: bring work that listens, in any medium, for any movement. We are always looking for the next voice.
- [An Invitation to Visual Artists](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/an-invitation-to-visual-artists/) - Before journeys are traced in words, they are often sensed through images—a pause, a threshold, a gesture of listening. Visual Voices of the 4Bs is an invitation to visual artists to engage with the Gallery of Human Migration’s framework — Beckoning, Beginning, Becoming, Belonging — four movements that shape the human experience of migration. Through images, artists help open spaces of reflection, offering ways of seeing that do not explain, but invite. From this place of listening, the Gallery invites artists to contribute visual works that respond to one moment of the 4B journey—or, for those who feel called, to accompany the full cycle over time.
- [Becoming Is Not Passive. It Is an Ethical Act.](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/becoming-is-not-passive-it-is-an-ethical-act/) - She packed what she could carry, said goodbye to people she didn't know how to leave, and moved. No photograph at the border. No policy paper written in her name. This March, the Gallery of Human Migration brings together artists, filmmakers, and writers—Sabrina Aureli, Sunny Yi, Leena Minifie, David Paperny, Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann, and Keiko Honda—to ask what transformation actually costs. Becoming, they suggest, is not personal growth. It is an ethical act.
- [Becoming Canadian: Citizens’ Stories](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/becoming-canadian-citizens-stories/) - Becoming Canadian: Citizens’ Stories is a compelling and timely documentary that explores the origins and future of Canadian citizenship.
- ["The Good Canadian," an 88-minute Documentary](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-good-canadian-an-88-minute-documentary/) - The Good Canadian challenges national mythmaking, while offering Canadians the chance to forge a new identity from the truth.
- [RE:Location Documentary Series](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/relocation-documentary-series/) - A family receives notice. They have days to pack what they can carry. The place they built — the street, the neighbourhood, the name of the corner where everyone knew everyone — will not be there when they look back. The RE:Location Documentary Series, presented by the Gallery of Human Migration, gathers these stories of forced uprooting: communities erased by policy, by fear, by the quiet violence of progress. What was lost. What was carried forward. What is still asking to be seen.
- [Giving Tuesday 2025 at the Gallery of Human Migration](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/giving-tuesday-2025-at-the-gallery-of-human-migration/) - Every story of migration begins with someone deciding the world might hold something worth moving toward. On Giving Tuesday 2025, the Gallery of Human Migration invited its community to become part of that movement — not as witnesses, but as participants. Your support carries migration stories into the light: into publication, into conversation, into the hands of people who have never seen their own experience reflected back at them. This is what belonging looks like when a community decides to build it together.
- [The Nail That Sticks Out: Migration, Memory, and Becoming](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-nail-that-sticks-out-migration-memory-and-becoming/) - In March, the Gallery pauses to reflect on two intertwined truths: that women have long been the stewards of cultural survival, and that the struggle for human rights is inseparable from the histories of migration, displacement, and resilience.
- [College Street, Little Italy: Toronto's Renaissance Strip](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/college-street-little-italy-torontos-renaissance-strip/) - In 2006, the GOHM provided funding for the publication of College Street Little Italy, Toronto's Renaissance Strip, which was edited by Denis De Klerck and Corrado Paina, 2006, Mansfield Press, on behalf of the Gallery of Human Migration.
- [National Histories and Ethnic History in Canada - Prof. Roberto Perin](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/national-histories-and-ethnic-history-in-canada-prof-roberto-perin/) - The question now arises as to whether national history still exists as a category. If so, how many national histories does Canada have? Where do the First Nations and immigrant groups fit into to this (these) national history (histories), or do they have national histories of their own?
- [March 21, and “The Italian Question” documentary](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/march-21-and-the-italian-question-documentary/) - Fear, belonging, and the stories we claim—or don't. A conversation with filmmaker Sun-Kyung Yi on the migration history hiding in plain sight.
- [The Red Box That Travels Like Humanity Itself](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-red-box-that-travels-like-humanity-itself/) - Everywhere, people move—each carrying an invisible red box filled with their past, their dreams, and their hopes. When you see them together, you see us all—one human constellation, bound by movement and memory.
- [Women in Migration: Strength, Resilience, and Transformation](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/women-in-migration-strength-resilience-and-transformation/) - When migration is discussed, the focus is often on statistics, borders, and policies. But behind every number is a human story—and half of those stories belong to women. Women migrants are not simply companions or dependents. They are leaders, workers, caregivers, innovators, and cultural ambassadors.
- [A Return Long Overdue: The Vatican, Indigenous Artifacts, and the Politics of Repatriation](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/a-return-long-overdue-the-vatican-indigenous-artifacts-and-the-politics-of-repatriation/) - The Gallery of Human Migration celebrates the Vatican’s decision to return sacred Indigenous artifacts to their original communities—a long-awaited act of justice. Though not directly involved in this process, the Gallery has long advocated for such restitution. We celebrate this moment with conviction and gratitude, as witnesses who have long hoped to see institutions embrace genuine acts of restoration and reconciliation.
- [2025 Literary Award Grand Prize: Mohamed Hammoud](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-grand-prize-mohamed-hammoud/) - A child’s life is split by a siren that rips the ordinary day apart — the beginning of exile, of loss, and of a name given and taken. From the sun-baked streets of Beirut to a new life in London, Ontario, this is a story about what happens when you carry a homeland inside you while learning to survive somewhere else. Tender, fierce, and memory-rich, the narrative tracks one family’s decision to leave, the small rituals that keep them human, and the quiet work of reclaiming selfhood in a world that keeps renaming you...
- [“Fregnacce for Christmas” — A Hands-on Italian Cooking Experience](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/fregnacce-for-christmas-a-hands-on-italian-cooking-experience/) - A special Giving Tuesday for the Gallery of Human Migration. Join us for an exclusive evening. Limited to 6 guests, providing a unique opportunity for personalized tips about Italy and meaningful connections.
- [The Gallery of Human Migration Launches Its Digital Space and Announces the 2025 Literary Award Winner](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-gallery-of-human-migration-launches-its-digital-space-and-announces-the-2025-literary-award-winner/) - The Gallery of Human Migration (The Gallery) is thrilled to announce the inaugural Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award, a celebration of the transformative power of migration through storytelling.
- [Together We Spread the Word: Heartfelt Thanks to Our Network](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/thanks-everybody/) - We extend our deep thanks to our networks that amplified our Call for Expressions of Interest for the inaugural 2025 Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award—your support helped voices travel and connections grow.
- [The Unveiling Ceremony of the Gallery's Award](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-unveiling-ceremony-of-the-gallerys-award/) - The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award was officially unveiled during the 50th Anniversary Gala of Danny Montesano’s business on May 9, 2025.
- [ChinTV: Launch of the Migration Literary Award 2025](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/chintv-launch-of-the-migration-literary-award-2025/) - Toronto, February 7, 2025. The Gallery of Human Migration (The Gallery) is thrilled to announce the inaugural Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award, a celebration of the transformative power of migration through storytelling.
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Irene Yi](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-irene-yi/) - Between two names—Fan and Ivy—lies a life divided by language, history, and survival. From Wuhan to Ottawa, she navigates racism, silence, and the relentless performance of belonging. As she questions who she is allowed to be in either world, her voice rises—fragile yet defiant—into a declaration of dual existence. This is a story of migration as metamorphosis, where speaking becomes an act of reclaiming the self...
- [Halifax was in me](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/halifax-was-in-me/) - When I was 23 years old, I packed everything I owned into my parents’ mini-van and headed east. The van was filled to the limit with boxes, bags, art supplies, and my cat, Parsifal, wedged among them. My parents were the kind of quietly generous people who never complained about a 20 hour drive across
- [Missing Children Awaken a Societal Reckoning](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/missing-children-awaken-a-societal-reckoning/) - The silent beat of the metaphorical drums reverberated within me as the whispering continued: "Since time immemorial our ancestors freely walked on our land, yet in a blink of an eye we were buried in Terra Nullius."
- [Where is Here? – A CBC Radio Drama Anthology](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/where-is-here-a-cbc-radio-drama-anthology/) - In 2004, the Gallery of Human Migration became the proud repository of the final drafts of Where Is Here?, a two–volume anthology of radio plays on migration themes produced by CBC Radio and edited by Damiano Pietropaolo, then Executive Director of CBC Radio Drama.
- [“I’M MIGRATION”: A Sculpture that Embodies the Human Journey](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/im-migration-a-sculpture-that-embodies-the-human-journey/) - This sculptural piece embodies the essence of migration. Cast in a luminous white material, it suggests both resilience and transformation, evoking the journey of individuals, both physical and metaphysical.
- [Walking on Sacred Ground: A Visit to Algoma University and the Living Work of Truth and Reconciliation](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/walking-on-sacred-ground-a-visit-to-algoma-university-and-the-living-work-of-truth-and-reconciliation/) - When I set foot on the campus of Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, I knew I wasn’t just visiting an academic institution. I was stepping onto a land that holds stories — some filled with pain and loss, others with resilience, hope, and a vision for healing.
- [Stories Without Shelves: The Struggle for First Nations Libraries](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/stories-without-shelves-the-struggle-for-first-nations-libraries/) - A nation’s measure is in how it treats its stories. To deny First Nations communities the means to preserve, share, and grow their stories is to continue the legacy of cultural dispossession.
- [The Indigenous Watchdog of Truth and Reconciliation](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-indigenous-watchdog-of-truth-and-reconciliation/) - Indigenous Watchdog delivers relevant quality information on Indigenous issues to educate, inform and ultimately transform the dialogue between Indigenous and non – Indigenous Canadians into ACTION.
- [The Art of Ester Crocetta](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-art-of-ester-crocetta/) - Ester Crocetta is a contemporary artist born in Italy. Her artistic career has developed both in Italy and internationally, with numerous exhibitions that have established her as a prominent figure in contemporary art.
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Ana-Maria Posada-Borda](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-ana-maria-posada-borda/) - Between the city streets of Montreal and the quiet rhythm of family drives, a young woman learns that identity isn’t a destination—it’s a motion between two worlds. Torn between her Colombian roots and Quebec upbringing, she discovers that belonging isn’t about choosing sides but weaving them together. In the silence of a twenty-two-minute car ride, she begins to understand that home lives not in geography, but in the stories we carry forward...
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Morsal Yakuby](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-morsal-yakuby/) - An artist reflects on the ache of loss, the tenderness of memory, and the search for a home that exists between cultures. Through her mother’s resilience, her family’s escape from war in Afghanistan, and her own struggle for voice and belonging, she comes to see that home is not a place—it’s a feeling, a legacy, and a language of love that outlives fear...
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Brenna Tomas](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-brenna-tomas/) - A family history of migration becomes a living classroom for radical hospitality and reimagined learning. Tracing Nonna’s voyage from Italy to North America, this piece links personal memory to educational theory and asks: how do communities cultivate belonging that values difference rather than erases it? By weaving academic insight with intimate recollection, the story invites readers to see migration as an experiential archive—a series of missteps, lobster-shell sheds, and small acts of resilience that together teach us how to belong differently...
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Elisa Bryce](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-elisa-bryce/) - A fiddle tune, an attic, a soldier’s cough—and a life that crosses an ocean. War Brides follows women whose loves stitched continents together after the war. It’s a vividly human account of travel, adaptation, and the strange comforts of music and community when cities lie wrecked and new worlds feel raw and foreign. With tenderness, humour, and plainspoken courage, the story maps how love rebuilds ordinary rituals—kitchen dances, milking cows, and kitchen parties—and how those rituals anchor a life remade far from home...
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: Keiko Honda](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-keiko-honda/) - After a life in cancer epidemiology and a sudden disability, a woman finds herself uprooted and unmoored—until community becomes the studio that calls her into being. Through accessible salons, surprising collaborators, and a series of small, brave experiments, she discovers that art isn’t a prize reserved for the few: it’s the act of bringing your perspective into the world. This memoir traces the slow, beautiful alchemy of identity, where losses transmute into creative belonging and a neighbourhood becomes a sheltering atelier...
- [2025 Literary Award Honourable Mention: The Prairie Collective](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-honourable-mention-the-prairie-collective/) - A conversation across generations: one voice arrived as an adult immigrant; the other was raised in the aftermath. Through kitchen memories, scraped knees, milk-bottles left at bedside, and a pilgrimage back to India, the two trace what gets inherited across migration—grief, caution, courage, and the slow construction of belonging. Honest, intimate, and unexpectedly tender, this dialogue reveals how migration builds family architecture: a living repository of stories, each retelling a beam, each memory a brick...
- [The Huron-Wendat First Nation award to the Gallery of Human Migration](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-huron-wendat-first-nation-award-to-the-gallery-of-human-migration/) - In 1972 I managed to get into the lower bowels of the Vatican Museums and there I came across shelves upon shelves of newspaper wrapped packages. Not being able to contain my curiosity I dared to peek...
- [Discovering My Identity, A Journey of Belonging Between Two Countries.](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/discovering-my-identity-a-journey-of-belonging-between-two-countries/) - If you ever feel uncertain about where you belong, take heart in this: your story matters. Let it join the great narrative of humanity in motion. You never know where your journey may take you—but by embracing your unique identity and experiences, you can find your place in the world, and in doing so, help others find theirs.
- [An Unforgettable Christmas](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/an-unforgettable-christmas/) - Each of us will keep in mind a particular Christmas. A Christmas to remember in a unique and unforgettable way. My first Christmas in Toronto was spent soon after my mother and I arrived.
- [Gallery of Human Migration: Rocco Maragna’s Big Idea](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/gallery-of-human-migration-rocco-maragnas-big-idea/) - June 12, 2014. Rocco Maragna has a great idea about arts, culture and recreation: Let’s recognize all citizens as having contributed to the well-being of Toronto with a virtual Gallery of Human Migration.
- [The spark that inspired the Gallery's creation: 1997 "Welcome Italia" Event](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-spark-that-inspired-the-gallerys-creation-1997-welcome-italia-event-at-exhibition-place-toronto-on/) - The aim of Welcome Italia was to expand awareness of the richness of Italian culture and to recognize the close ties between Italy and Canada.

## Pages

- [Home](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/) - The Gallery of Human Migration weaves a living tapestry of migration stories exploring identity, belonging, and our shared humanity.
- [Visual Art Voices of the 4Bs](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/projects-and-initiatives/visual-art-voices-of-the-4bs/) - VISUAL ART VOICES OF THE 4 Bs Migration arrives in images before it arrives in words. A photograph taken at a threshold. A frame of sky above an unfamiliar roof. A colour remembered more clearly than a name.The Gallery of Human Migration invites visual artists to respond to the four movements of every human migration
- [Link In Bio](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/link-in-bio/) - Facebook Youtube Instagram The Tapestry Migration Literary Award 2026 Your story of migration, the one inherited, lived, and witnessed across generations, has a place here.The Tapestry, the 2026 edition of the Gallery’s Migration Literary Award, is an international recognition and publication initiative honouring personal and ancestral stories. Every selected voice is honoured equally. No rankings,
- [Donate](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/get-involved/donate/) - Support the gallery Add Your Thread to the Weave The Gallery of Human Migration exists because someone decided migration stories were worth preserving. Your gift—at any size—keeps that decision alive. Give Today A word from our Founder When I founded the Gallery, I had no building, no endowment, and no guarantee this would grow into
- [Books](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/books/) - Books For the Gallery, migration speaks of movement, the essence of the migratory process. We don’t frame migration by ethnicity or historical periods, but by its universality: migration is the eternal movement at the core of human nature.Movement is the act of being born, of coming into the world. Movement is the creative spark that
- [Contact Us](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/contact-us/) - Contact Us We’d Love to Hear From You General InquiriesHave a question about our projects, partnerships, or upcoming opportunities? We’re happy to connect. Use the contact form here and we’ll get back to you soon.Your feedback mattersWhether it’s a suggestion, a story, or a simple hello, we welcome your thoughts and ideas. They help us
- [From The Gallery](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/from-the-gallery/) - From The Gallery Featured Artistic Collaborations Documentaries Events Expert Voices Indigenous Voices Interviews News and Media The Foundational Years View All Featured Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards At eleven, Rocco Maragna landed at Pier 21 with nothing certain but the father waiting on the other side. Decades later, the founder and president of the Gallery
- [The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award 2026](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/projects-and-initiatives/the-gallery-of-human-migration-literary-award/) - The Gallery's Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration 2026 Literary Award 2025 Literary Award 2026 General Info 2026 Official Rules 2026 FAQ The Tapestry — Curated Voices of Migration Every migration story begins before the first step is taken — in a longing, a fear, a letter, a dream.
- [The Tapestry - Submit Your Story](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/stories-of-migration/the-tapestry-share-your-story/) - The Tapestry — Submit Your Story 2026 Gallery's Migration Literary Award The Tapestry — Curated Voices of Migration invites writers from around the world to submit their migration stories for the 2026 edition of the Gallery’s Migration Literary Award.This is not a competition. There is no single winner. Instead, we are curating a collection of
- [The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award 2025](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/projects-and-initiatives/2025-literary-award-results/) - The Gallery's Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration 2026 Literary Award 2025 Literary Award 2025 Award Results 2025 General Info 2025 Official Rules 2025 FAQ In its inaugural year, the Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award shines a light on original writing that deepens our understanding of migration, its
- [Share Your Story](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/stories-of-migration/share-your-story/) - Weave Your Thread Where your memories belong Somewhere in your life, there is a moment that migration made. A departure, a wait, an arrival that did not look the way you had imagined. A language you reached for and could not find. A door opened by someone whose name you still remember. A home you
- [The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award (old)](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/projects-and-initiatives/the-gallery-of-human-migration-literary-award-old/) - The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results The Award The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award celebrates the enduring power of migration stories.The 2025 inaugural edition is in tribute to
- [2025 Literary Award Results](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/2025-literary-award-results-old/) - The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results In its inaugural year, the Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award shines a light on original writing that deepens our understanding of migration,
- [About Us](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/about-us/) - Who We Are I'm Migration Countless journeys, one humanity. Two Threads, One Weave Every institution begins somewhere. The Gallery of Human Migration was not built by people who study migration from the outside. It was built from inside it—by two people whose lives are migration, who found each other through the movement of it, who
- [The Literary Award Official Rules](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-literary-award-official-rules/) - The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results 2025 Inaugural edition Eligibility To be considered, your story must meet the following requirements:The story must be unpublished at the time of submission.It
- [The Literary Award FAQ](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/the-literary-award-faq/) - The Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award Honouring writing that holds the full complexity of migration General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results General Info Official Rules FAQ 2025 Award Results What are the prizes? Grand Prize:As a symbol of recognition, the Grand Prize winner will receive a faithful reproduction of the sculpture designed
- [2025 Literary Award Stories Collection](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/stories-of-migration/2025-literary-award-stories-collection/) - The Stories Collection Stories Collection 2025 Literary Award Winners Stories Collection 2025 Literary Award Winners This space features the 2025 award-winning voices of the Gallery's Migration Literary Award—stories that met the challenge of the Four Bs with literary excellence and emotional courage. A chorus of experiences that transcends borders and generations. They remind us that
- [Content Submission Policy](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/content-submission-policy/) - content submission Policy IntroductionThis policy applies to all content submitted to the Gallery of Human Migration, including stories submitted to the Stories Collection and works submitted to the Migration Literary Award. By submitting any content, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms below.Your Story Belongs To YouThe Gallery of Human
- [The Stories Collection](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/stories-of-migration/the-stories-collection/) - The Stories Collection Stories Collection 2025 Literary Award Winners Stories Collection 2025 Literary Award Winners This is the living core of the Gallery—the place where the tapestry is actually woven, one voice at a time. Here, whispers and declarations meet: stories carried across generations and geographies, across departures and returns, across the silence of those
- [Your Two-minute Video](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/your-two-minute-video/) - your two-minute video We invite you to join a growing movement of people who are documenting how migration shapes connection, belonging, and community around the world. After watching the short film The Red Box Around the World, you’re invited to create a two-minute video of your own. Tell us about a journey, a memory, a
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- [Join Our Board](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/get-involved/join-our-board/) - Join Our Board Directors contribute 3–5 hours/month on average, including quarterly meetings and light committee work.If you have questions, please email us at info@galleryofhumanmigration.org Loading…
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- [Where We Have Been](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/projects-and-initiatives/where-we-have-been/) - Where We've Been Project Snapshots The Gallery of Human Migration has never stood still. Since 1997, we’ve been gathering ideas, exploring questions, and creating space for dialogue around migration in its many forms. Long before we had a website—or even a name—we were laying the groundwork for what would become the Gallery.Click on a photo

## USP Forms

- [Submit Your Story Form](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/usp_form/submit-your-story-form/) - Voice. Write in the voice that feels true—personal, reflective, fragmented, lyrical, or plain. There is no template. Length. Between 500 and 1,500 words. Enough room to breathe. Enough discipline to stay close to what matters. Language. We currently accept submissions in English. If English is not your first language, you are welcome to draft in
- [Your Two-minute Video Form](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/usp_form/your-two-minute-video-form/) - Your Info Your Two-minute Video Upload An Optional Photo Thumbnail For Your Video JPEG/JPG images only. Maximum file size is 2Mb. Agreements *Here are quick links to the Content Submission Policy, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
- [Submit Visual Art Form](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/usp_form/submit-visual-art-form/) - Your name will be publicly published with your images. We wish to give you proper credit! However, if you prefer your name not be added, simply write "Anonymous" for your name. Your email will remain private. We only ask for your email address so that we can contact you if we have any questions about
- [Literary Award 2026 Submit Story Form](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/usp_form/literary-award-2026-submit-story-form/) - Please confirm you meet these requirements before submitting: Age & Location: You are 18 years or older and can submit from any country. Language: Your story is written in English. Originality: Your story is original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. Story Type: Your story is a personal or ancestral migration narrative. Word Count: Your

## Categories

- [Artistic Collaborations](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/artistic-collaborations/)
- [Expert Voices](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/expert-voices/)
- [Events](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/events/)
- [Documentaries](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/documentaries/)
- [Interviews](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/interviews/)
- [News and Media](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/news-and-media/)
- [Featured](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/featured/)
- [Stories Collection](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/stories-collection/)
- [Indigenous Voices](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/indigenous-voices/)
- [Where We've Been](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/where-we-have-been/)
- [Literary Award](https://galleryofhumanmigration.org/category/literary-award/)

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