Memory, Messiness and Migration

Memory, Messiness and Migration is a participatory Long Table event exploring how our memories and messiness, personal, ancestral, and collective, shape our understanding of migration. Hosted by storyteller and filmmaker கிஷான்த் ஜவகர் - Kishanth Javegar, the evening will begin with Kishanth's reflection on tracing his Tamil roots across India and Eelam. 

Followed by an open Long Table discussion where participants are invited to share their “Hot Takes” related to migration, memory, or messiness to spark open dialogue.

Participants can enter or leave the table freely, contributing when they feel moved to speak, or simply by listening.
Guests are also encouraged to bring an object, photograph, or item connected to their family’s migrational story.

Together, we’ll sit with the complexities and contradictions of migration; its beauty, discomfort, and in-between spaces, creating a space for dialogue, honesty, and shared reflection beyond echo chambers.

Please arrive 15 minutes early for a prompt start.

Hosted by Kishanth Javegar

Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna

The London Migration Film Festival, which is holding its 10th annual edition from 27 November-3 December 2025, aims to challenge the narrow rhetoric on migration that often sees migration, and people on the move, framed in reductive and dehumanising binaries.