In this paper we empirically explore the ways in which young people were enroled in a multimodal
exhibition to creatively produce narratives of their past, presents and futures. We look at
the different ways this work was framed, and how all memory work and, we argue, future work is
relational, interactionally produced and situated in dynamic and unfolding social and political
frameworks. We look at the ways young people described the work of producing accounts of their
futures within that setting, and the different forms of labour involved in that process. We explore
the encounters that fostered local, more humble, acts of care and repair, and how those everyday
practices might help build towards reparative futures.