EastSide Arts Alliance, Bay Area Lesbian Archives, & Artist as First Responder presents…
Mapping Our Legacies: Community Archiving Day, 2:00pm-5:00pm
This Community Archiving Day offers a unique opportunity for you to contribute to our collective memory. We invite Third World lesbians, their allies, and anyone involved in lesbian movements to bring original photographs, flyers, and other materials for digitization. Together, we’ll create an archive that preserves narratives often erased or overlooked.
Sign Up for Your Digitization Slot:
To make sure everyone has an opportunity to participate, please reserve a specific time slot here: tinyurl.com/lezcarp24
Due to limited time and digitization stations, we ask that each participant bring no more than 10-12 items.
RSVPing is strongly encouraged to ensure we can accommodate everyone.
Highlights of Community Archiving Day:
Digitization Services: Eastside Arts Alliance’s archivist, along with volunteers from the Bay Area Lesbian Archives and Stanford University, will help scan and digitize your treasured materials.
You will keep the originals, and you can choose to have the digital copies stored with the Eastside Arts Alliance’s Community Archival Resource Project (CARP) and/or the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Digital copies can also be provided directly to you via Google Drive or a complimentary USB.
Time Capsule Contribution: Bring a meaningful item or piece of your story for our collective time capsule. This contribution will serve as a testament to our community’s resilience, struggles, and triumphs, to be opened in 2044 for future generations.
Don’t forget our Remember Our Power: Intergenerational Panel on Contemporary Struggles panel at 6:00pm-8:00pm
featuring
Dr. Angela M. Wellman – Award-winning trombonist, music educator, and founder of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music.
Shah Noor Hussein – Writer, multimedia artist, and scholar whose work bridges Black feminist thought and Queer diaspora studies.
Alecia Harger – Activist and musician focused on reducing policing impacts in the Bay Area.
Dr. Paola Bacchetta – UC Berkeley professor specializing in feminist queer decolonial theory and transnational activism.
Nneka Okeke – Queer dancer and community organizer dedicated to supporting Black queer immigrants.
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This event is apart of Sister Hold On: Reclaiming Third World Lesbian Imaginaries, Organized by Bay Area Lesbian Archives
Dates: September 19 - December 14, 2024
In partnership with Bay Area Lesbian Archives, EastSide Arts Alliance presents Sister Hold On: Reclaiming Third World Lesbian Imaginaries, an exhibition that celebrates the collective power of third world lesbians and the intersectional struggles they championed in creating a collective future in the Bay Area.
Bringing together past, present and future, this exhibition taps into Third World Lesbian imaginaries to build a space of gathering and of collective future-building, where love, struggle and resilience coexist.
Sister Hold On will showcase archival materials from the Bay Area Lesbian Archive and new work from artists Shreya Shankar and Malaya Tuyay.
Bay Area Lesbian Archives was founded by artist and activist Lenn Keller in 2014. This exhibition celebrates BALA’s 10 year anniversary.