Creativity, Archives and Social Justice: OPEN SPACE
October 9 at 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
| £5Calling question:
What can creative approaches bring to archiving practices?
About this event:
Building archival spaces for social justice means disrupting patterns that document and preserve dominant points of view by silencing the lived experiences of everyone else; and subsequently, ensure and deepen societal amnesia.
Miranda Mims, “Archival-Futurism: Archives as Social Justice”
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Documenting and preserving history has been an important cultural practice for millennia.
Who decides what goes into archives has long been rooted in colonial, patriarchal and classist practices. Monolithic approaches to archiving cannot represent the diversity of our cultural heritages.
Instead, creative approaches to archiving can provide new and innovative ways in which communities can be represented and choose to represent themselves.
This event will explore how creativity and co-creation can transform archives.
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This open space event is part of Collective Encounters’ Radical Retrospectives Festival, celebrating 21 years since the founding of the company.
Radical Retrospectives aims to look back over more than histories that are meaningful for our communities and imagine the future of theatre for social change in Liverpool City Region and beyond.
Event Format: Open Spaces are participant-led events where the agenda and discussion are driven by those in the room. At the beginning of the event guest speakers will introduce some key ideas, principles and practices behind the theme and offer provocations for discussion. Together we set the agenda and you will be able to move freely between conversations.
Ticket Cost: £5.00
We also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk
Access: This event will use live transcription. If you require BSL interpretation, please get in touch no later than two weeks before the event. If you have any other access requirements please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk
