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.