Presentation & Panel on Queer & BIPOC DIY Archiving

When mainstream institutions don’t document your community, you document it yourself. This event explores what happens when communities take archiving into their own hands through grassroots, DIY preservation projects.

Join us for a presentation from the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Centre (KORLCC) + Panel on Queer & BIPOC DIY Archiving!

PART 1: Presentation on the KORLCC (2:00-3:00pm)

Scott Berwick, Manager of the Arts and Archives Department at Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Centre presents the Centre’s initiatives to preserve Mohawk language materials, photography, video, and artifacts. This presentation explores community-led cultural preservation work integrating artistic and archival practices with meaningful community engagement.

PART 2: Panel discussion on DIY Archiving in Queer & BIPOC Communities (3:15-5:30pm)

Moderated by Taïna Mueth, this panel brings together archivists, researchers, and cultural educators from Gay, Lesbian, Chinese, and Caribbean communities to discuss recent projects documenting and preserving their own histories.

The panel will discuss:
Examples of recent community-led history and heritage projects
What community insiders bring to archival work
How DIY archives engage the communities they document
Who gets to creates and controls community archives

Part of “Owning Our Histories: Celebrating Queer & BIPOC DIY Archives” (full programme in bio)

Free and open to the public.