Where Are Our Stories Held? A Queer Workshop on Story, Self, and Community

What does it mean to belong to a community, and still feel unseen within it?

This participatory workshop invites members of the queer community to slow down and reconnect with themselves and each other through story. Led by multidisciplinary artist and storyteller Frank Malaba, the session creates a grounded and welcoming space for reflection, listening, and shared experience.

Through guided prompts, body-based reflection, and optional sharing, participants explore the stories they carry, how these stories live in the body, and how they shape our sense of belonging within queer spaces. The focus is not on performance, but on presence.

By moving from self-awareness into shared witnessing, the workshop offers a way of encountering each other beyond labels, expectations, or social groupings, and invites a more honest experience of community.