What does Confluence Collective do?

The Confluence Collective (TCC) was born out of a deep-rooted conviction to curate a space to preserve, archive and retell the histories of the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayan region. We are a group of individual researchers and artistes, working together to create a collective space that has eventually taken the form of a Collective. As the TCC, we want to preserve our ancestral histories and in doing so curate localised archives of the place and community that makes up the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas. The Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas has been in the heart of British Colonialism and continue to live with the consequences of this colonial history. Any effort at decolonising must begin with the recognition of this reality. Our histories have always been written for and we have always been ‘represented', often distorting our stories and realities with cultural, historical, social political and legal consequences. Our vision for the Collective is to collectively re-imagine the hill societies- the people, community, and the region through the stories from the place- that offer new ways of ‘seeing' and ‘imagining' the place.