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Authors and participants of the \u201cPhysical Evidence Museum<\/a>\u201d, created at this year\u2019s festival \u201cHomo Novus<\/a>\u201d as part of the \u201cMagic Carpets<\/a>\u201d platform, will take part in the charity marathon \u201cDod 5!\u201d (“High Five!”) organised by Public Broadcasting of Latvia. This year, the marathon aims to raise awareness of domestic violence by contributing towards its reduction.<\/p>\n On December 17, 21 and 22 at 10.00 PM participants of the \u201cPhysical Evidence Museum<\/a>\u201d will read the stories that were sent to the \u201cHomo Novus\u201d festival.\u00a0Please donate to support victims of domestic violence.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPhysical Evidence Museum<\/a>\u201d, created by Jana Jacuka and Laura Sta\u0161\u0101ne, is a collection of personal artefacts of violence and an interactive installation resembling ‘crime scene’ premiered in an apartment in Riga during “Homo Novus” festival.<\/p>\n The focus of the work “Physical Evidence Museum<\/a>” is on women’s experiences of domestic violence, and this was done by the authors working with women who were willing to send personal items and belongings to the museum’s collection \u2013 objects as witnesses of violence \u2013 and share their stories. A solidarity action \u2013 readings of 24-hour experience stories \u2013 was organised on the last day of the \u201cPhysical Evidence Museum\u201d where 18 women participated in the reading marathon.<\/p>\n Some of these experience stories will be broadcast on the air of the charity marathon “High Five!”. The authors of the project will invites other women to share their experience and stories as well by sending at least a few sentences by December 21, writing to lietumuzejs@gmail.com<\/strong>. They will be read on the air, ensuring anonymity.<\/p>\n Insight into the video documentation from the “Homo Novus<\/a>” festival:<\/p>\n