Forgetting and Remembering: Co-Creating a Community-Controlled AAPI Archival Commons

​What if our memories could find each other, across generations, across place, across everything that has tried to keep us apart?

​Facilitated by Primary Source Archive in partnership with Philadelphia Folklore Project and People's Media Record, this workshop invites AAPI movement organizers, community members, and allies to grieve what's been lost, celebrate the memories we've kept safe, and envision alternative community-rooted containers for the memories we need to power our future movements.

​We'll hear from People's Media Record, an archival and educational hub that builds power and capacity for Philadelphians to save and share their stories on their own terms. Their work preserving the community-produced stories of Philadelphia's movements grounds us in why archives are essential to our futures.

​Through a collective memory activity, we'll then explore existing community-built archives, alternatives to dominant institutional and corporate memory keeping, as a way to imagine a safe, secure, and community controlled AAPI archival commons that can connect us and further our movements for change.

​This workshop is being facilitated in conversation with the No Arena: Making a Movement exhibition. If you haven't yet visited, we invite you to arrive 20 minutes early to spend time with the work before we gather.