Tsunagu/Connect is a multi-phased, multi-year oral history project that explores the lives of Japanese women living in the UK since 1945. Starting in April 2020, New Earth Theatre have interviewed over 30 Japanese women who have settled all over the UK - from Aberdeen to Huddersfield, Belfast to London. Exploring themes of culture, prejudice and belonging, Tsunagu/Connect: The Exhibition reveals the joys and struggles, triumphs and hardships of creating a new life in a foreign land. Their stories will amaze, shock and entertain, upending tired stereotypes of Japanese women. 

Featuring personal objects and interactive audio, this exhibition is an intimate glimpse into the worlds of these women and poses a vital question: “What price must we pay to create a third space, neither one nation nor the other, where we finally have room to be ourselves?” 

To fully interact with the exhibition, please bring along a smartphone with compatible headphones.

Tsunagu/Connect is a National Lottery Heritage funded project from New Earth Theatre.

Admission Free