Within the framework of the program designed for the temporary exhibition "Trials," the first talk was dedicated to one of the earliest memory institutions in Albania, the "Site of Witness and Memory," conceptualized in the premises of the former Internal Branch of Shkodra, a building seized by the communist regime from the Franciscan Fathers at that time.
Tea Çuni, a former employee of this institution and currently head of the communication and promotion department at the Marubi Museum and Pjerin Mirdita, the responsible person for the "Site of Witness and Memory," presented the initial steps of building an exhibition space where through documents and artifacts, the first wave of communist persecution is traced, a period that coincides with the temporal extension of the "Trials" exhibition.
Starting from this space and extending further to the Map of Prisons of Shkodra, their presentation sought to build a topography of places of memory along with the stories and narratives of each, which have unmistakably marked the memory of the city itself.