Section 1: Introduction: The Taro Leaf

Section 2: Making a Mark (Artworks)

Section 3: Like Water on a Taro Leaf (Photo Essay)

Section 4: Movement Together

Section 5: Timeline Activity

Section 6: Conclusion: The Taro Leaf Statement

Inside this manual, you’ll find the key elements needed to bring the exhibition to life — display guidelines, assets, and activations that support meaningful engagement.

Hello future exhibitors,


Rohingya: Making a Mark was developed in collaboration with Rohingya artists, communities, and allies across the world. It exists to support you to do the same: to partner with Rohingya voices, to work collectively, and to advocate for one of the most systematically excluded communities in the world.


Inside this manual, you’ll find the key elements needed to bring the exhibition to life — display guidelines, assets, and activations that support meaningful engagement.


The intended audiences include families and children, and it can also serve as a tool for engaging politicians and media. Whilst this guide is prescriptive and curated to follow a story, you are welcome to adapt and be creative.


Our Sydney exhibition reached over 35,000 visitors, brought together more than 200 collaborators, and generated over 20 million online engagements. More importantly, it created moments of connection, understanding, and greater empathy.


For Médecins Sans Frontières, we were able to mobilise, fundraising, communications, association, and advocacy into a whole of office experience, making it our largest ever grassroots campaign, in-terms of its breadth and reach.






Our goal is to realise this exhibition in at least 15 locations over the next two years. In 2027, it will be 10 years since the large Rohingya exodus, and we will mark it accordingly.


We encourage you to adapt it, localise it, and make it your own — while keeping Rohingya voices and collaboration at the centre.


creativeadvocacypartnership@gmail.com
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Rohingya: Making a mark
A guide for showcasing the Rohingya taro leaf