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Start: 2026-04-09T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-11T21:00:00-06:00
Location: East Window

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Inspired by the commitment and dedication of the caregivers, volunteers, and veterans. Invisible Threads is an archival storytelling exhibit born from a deeply personal sense of gratitude. Devaki Murch was one of the babies on the first Operation Babylift flight out of Vietnam, a flight that ended in a crash on April 4, 1975. She doesn’t have a baby book or hospital bracelet. What she does have are front-page headlines, a nursery name, and her name printed on a survivor manifest.For years, the only version of her story she knew was the narrative told by others, journalists, historians, teachers, and politicians. But slowly, through the emergence of documentaries, memoirs, community websites, and social media, a new thread (literally) began to appear. Then another. And another. Until a tapestry began to form, not clean or symmetrical, but knotted, tangled, and full of texture.Invisible Threads is that tapestry. It is a weaving together of lived experiences, personal correspondence, official records, oral histories, photographs, and personal artifacts, many of which were hidden in basements or forgotten in file boxes for nearly fifty years. But perhaps the most integral part of this tapestry is not the records or the photographs, it’s the people. The individuals. The ones who have shown up in each other’s lives sometime between now and then, often unexpectedly.These are the threads: recognizing one another, even though we have never met, greeting one another after 50 years, holding the hand of someone you once held in your arms. Sharing the space with someone whose last time you were together was the minutes before the plane crashed. We have intersected at various points in space and time, often unknowingly, and our presence now binds this history together.Some threads are strong and tightly braided. Others fray at the edges. Some intersect once and pull apart. Others wind their way back again, years or decades later. Together, they reveal a story far greater than any one person could tell alone.This installation, hosted at East Window Gallery in Boulder, Colorado (April 4–25, 2026), marks the culmination of the Operation Babylift 50-year commemoration. It brings together StorySharing, archives, and the community. It is not a story of endings (there are some), but of entanglements, crossings, and the unexpected beauty of finding yourself in the threads of someone else’s life.

Operation Babylift Collection

East Window

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