/Context
Stories from Nowhere begins from a simple recognition:
The world is experienced through perspective. Community, and its larger cousin politics, are a continual back and forth of views. Each of us sees through memory, faith, culture, history and circumstance. There is no view from nowhere.
Sympathy begins when we recognise that our view is a view. When we forget this, certainty hardens, dialogue collapses and division deepens. At the same time, we depend on institutions, religion and technology. These structures are necessary for modern life. Yet they can take on a life of their own. Under increasing pressure from bureaucracy, ideology and automation, we begin to concede that they possess final authority.
People are flattened into categories: peasant, foreigner, believer, threat, etc. Biography becomes paperwork. Faith becomes doctrine. Individuality becomes friction. When people are misunderstood at scale, schism grows, apathy settles and despair follows. Harm does not always arrive loudly. It arrives quietly, through erasure. Stories from Nowhere works within this reality. We recognise the necessity of modern systems. We also recognise their blind spots.
/Vision
We envision a cultural and civic space where personhood is encountered before category. Where sovereignty is understood not as dominance, but as the irreducible individuality of each human being. Where storytelling restores complexity, dignity and moral imagination. Where art creates moments of recognition that soften division and renew empathy.
/Mission
Stories from Nowhere reveals glimpses of personhood by bringing unique lived perspectives to life, particularly those whose lives grind against systems of power. Through film, literature, comedy, craft, workshops and public gatherings, we:
• Create platforms for lived perspectives that can resist reduction
• Develop work that holds complexity without simplifying it
• Invite audiences into encounters that restore empathy and responsibility
For stories from the in-between, we make a place
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