Join community archivist and creative producer Ella Barrett for an interactive session exploring the power of personal and community archiving.
As the lead archivist and curator at The Bantu Archive Programme, housed in SADACCA, Ella alongside Rob Cotterell oversees the community driven effort to reclaim Afro-Caribbean history through oral history interviews.
The Bantu Archive Programme in collaboration with White Teeth, Skin Deep and Resolve Collective have curated various artistic responses from the archive's interviews. These include short films, VR installations, murals, and paintings by local artists Ashley Holmes, Grace Lee and Tomekah George. Selected quotations from the archive are on show around the Caribbean Footprints exhibition with a QR at the front to hear the sound clips.
For Caribbean Footsteps: Archiving in Practice, participants are invited to bring personal archives – photos, music, objects – and engage in discussions on how personal stories intersect with community narratives. The session will also explore how cultural organisations can more authentically represent these stories, enriching the collective memory of the past.
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