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The Resemblage Project: Remixing Scarborough's Stories of Aging

In development since 2017 and online since May 2019, The Resemblage Project is an exploration in digital storytelling looking at the experience of aging, which the project reminds us is "one of the few experiences that affects us universally." Based at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the project has gathered stories from several cohorts of the Aging and the Arts seminar taught there. Currently, there are about a dozen video stories in the Storybank (under Our Stories). Some connect across generations; for example, Gulamhussein Khalfan's My Happy Days tells the story of his migration from Mombasa, Kenya, to Toronto, Canada, at the age of 43 (recorded 30 years later when Gulamhussein was 73) and is followed by grandson Kaamil Khalfan's The Contours of Generation (recorded at the age of 21). In Aretina Chan's Aging With Splendour, the process of aging is compared to the process of creating sculpture, and art in general. The Project plans ongoing updates as more stories are gathered.
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May 7th, 2021
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April 20th, 2021 at 12:22pm
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April 27th, 2021 at 12:42pm
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