ARCHIVING PHOTOS & PERSONAL HISTORIES: Orientation & hands on archiving workshop
ARCHIVING PHOTOS & PERSONAL HISTORY:
Resilience Archives orientation & hands on archiving workshop
We’ve all got pre-digital memories tucked away in closets or boxes and personal associations with them. Those keepsakes are also a part of our larger LGBTQ AAPI community story! Learn the ins and outs of how to properly archive photographs and digitize, fliers, printed media, or even objects like t-shirts, buttons, or other 3 dimensional ephemera that we’ve all collected over the years. Through this hands-on technical workshop, participants will be introduced to the best practices of archiving in this hands on technical workshop in a 3 station setup of a 35mm film scanner, professional grade flatbed scanner, and a “copy-stand” photographic workstation. You’ll be guided through the process of how to work with each station and be able to archive your own work! We’ll also discuss best practices and suggestions in storing and organizing your pre-digital media for the long-term. Contribute to our community history, empower and teach future generations, and participate in accurate storytelling. Radical librarian Sine Hwang Jensen and community photo & film archivist Mia Nakano will lead this workshop.
INSTRUCTORS
Sine Hwang Jensen: Librarian, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies
MLin: Community Organizer, API Equality – Northern California
Mia Nakano: Director, Visibility Project
Saturday, July 9th
10am – 2pm
LOCATION
San Francisco Public Library
Children’s Center
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
BRING
- 35mm negatives, slides, flat photographs, fliers, newsletters, and/or objects that are related to LGBTQ AAPI history, ideally around the locations we’ve highlighted
- You may also bring materials to leave with volunteers who will spend time archiving them the month after the workshop is over
- A hard drive or flash drive to copy high res images onto
- Something to take notes
ABOUT THE RESLIENCE ARCHIVES
LGBTQ Asian Pacific Americans have made historic contributions to art, labor rights, and immigration reform, but their stories are truncated footnotes, if mentioned at all. APAs are the fastest growing population in the U.S., but have one of the lowest amounts of visibility in media.
With little to no LGBTQ AAPI representation in popular culture or history, it is often up to these individuals to seek out their own community in order to hear stories and experiences. This process can be a huge struggle, resulting in conflicts of identity, religion, familial obligation, and self worth. LGBTQ AAPIs face intense discrimination and racism from mainstream LGBTQ communities, and must often choose to be LGBTQ or Asian.
The Resilience Archives will exist online as community created history through photographs, slideshows, audio clips, multi-media, and much more. The first iteration of the project starts in the SF Bay Area with a series of four free workshops that teach practical, technical, and artistic skills in different mediums: archiving, storytelling, print media, performance arts, and film practices.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Workshops are open to LGBTQ AAPI community, family, and allies. Due to limited space in some workshops, priority will be given to LGBTQ AAPI community members. Please view individual workshop pages to see if there are any restrictions.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
Resilience Archives is a collaboration between API Equality – Northern California (APIENC) and Visibility Project Director, artist Mia Nakano. APIENC and the Visibility Project are a part of the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality Network (AACRE).
This collaboration was made possible by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Artists and Communities in Partnership Grant.
