On November 27, we opened the ComeUnity swap booth at Sentralen as part of the 20th Showbox Festival. Set designer and lighting and costume designer Agnethe Tellefsen created a beautiful room within a room beneath the staircase in the Winter Garden at Sentralen. There, we tempted passers-by with some of the garments that have already found their way into the archive. If you donated a garment and a story to the archive, you received a story from one of the garments hanging there in return. We heard many beautiful, funny, powerful, and sad stories, and shared a good number of cups of coffee. Many people got excited about the project, flipped through their own memory books, and thought of garments that deserve a continued life with us.
It was great fun to run the swap booth with the Italian Luigi and the Turkish Pinar. People were so curious about why they were involved, and it was lovely to meet colleagues, friends, organizers, and strangers who suddenly shared small pieces of their lives with us. Thank you!
