Here’s Exactly What Cultural Trails Is
A lot of you have said you don’t have enough info about Cultural Trails.
Now you do.
What it is:
Cultural Trails is the objects and artefacts side of The Page Gallery’s September exhibition. Where Shared Ground is about your writing, Cultural Trails is about the things you carry with you — the scraps, the receipts, the playlists, the ticket stubs, the scribbled notes, the photos on your fridge, the things you never thought would belong in a gallery but absolutely do.
What counts as an artefact:
Think everyday, personal, physical, or digital items that tell a story. Examples:
• Receipts, train tickets, boarding passes
• Handwritten notes, letters, post-its, doodles
• Screenshots (texts, playlists, search histories, Instagram comments)
• Flyers, postcards, menus, wristbands, matchbooks
• Old printouts, school assignments, marginalia, timetables
• Photos of objects that can’t travel (family heirlooms, broken furniture, souvenirs)
What doesn’t work:
• Polished essays or poems (those go to Shared Ground)
• Random aesthetic Pinterest images you didn’t make or keep yourself
• Things with no connection to you
Why we want them:
Because these things are stories too. They’re the traces of life that rarely get archived but deserve to be. They carry memory, humour, grief, absurdity, and intimacy in a way writing alone can’t.
How to submit:
• Email a photo or scan of your artefact to submit@pagegalleryjournal.com
• Subject line: Cultural Trails Submission
• Include a short note (1–3 sentences) telling us what it is and why you kept it.
No excuses left. Show us your trails.