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Apr 2027 – Jan 2028Canada is listening. The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar, the full exhibition and VR experience, comes to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, with the support of the Canadian Yazidi Association.
13–14 Nov 2026Yerevan. The VR experience and a panel, "Trauma, Memory, and the Cost of Being Unheard", at the 5th Center for Truth and Justice conference.
Nov 2026Iraq's evidence commission. After a GIZ-facilitated meeting with director Thikran Mato, Iraq's Commission for Investigation and Gathering Evidence agreed to give staff access to the VR and to host a temporary exhibition.
22 Oct 2026Heilbronn. New team member Hales Murad led a workshop and VR session at SDG-Hochschultag, DHBW CAS Heilbronn.
Oct 2026Nuremberg Forum. Part of the panel "Strength through Art and Letters" in Courtroom 600. UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Chaloka Beyani experienced the VR.
Oct 2026Now a 2D film. Nobody's Listening is available in English and French for classrooms and venues without headsets, developed with the support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
28 Jul 2026Buenos Aires. Thikran Mato and Ryan D'Souza presented at the Memory Studies Association conference, with about 970 participants from 87 countries.
2026Geneva. Women on the Frontline, alongside the UN Human Rights Council, with survivor and artist Sepan Ajo.
Jun 2026Berlin. Nobody's Listening at the Healing Arts conference on arts and medicine.
2026Australia. The VR shown alongside Drawn from Pain, Written from Truth at the New England Regional Art Museum, with work by Yazidi artists Amera Ali and Suad.
2026Podcast. VR in Education, episode 164: "When VR Makes Us Care".
2025Stuttgart. The VR at the Neues Schloss, with a panel on the Yazidi community, in the Baden-Württemberg–Northern Iraq partnership.

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