Following the overwhelming response to our last Community Digitization event, CCCADI & PMCA (Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Archive) have teamed up again to host a second Community Dig Day at the CCCADI Firehouse on Saturday, January 31st.
We are looking for your stories and archives about making and preserving Harlem culture! Have you or your neighbors, friends, and/or family members been block and tenant association members, homemakers, artists, activists, teachers, small business owners, street vendors, church members, elected officials, community benefit organization leaders (and more!) in Harlem?
Bring your scrapbooks, flyers, photos (slides and negatives, too!), agendas and meeting minutes, artworks, home videos, journal entries, poetry, family archives, music and audio recordings, stories & memories. Together, we can tell the story and preserve the memory of everyday Harlemites caring for each other and our neighborhoods!
***We will have digitization stations and a storytelling booth set up to process your materials. You’ll leave with a USB of your digitized files and recorded stories and the opportunity to share them publicly on the Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Archive website!
This intergenerational gathering invites our community to explore the power of archiving as an act of cultural preservation.
We will have digitization stations for the following formats:
Mini DV tapes
VHS tapes
Negatives
Slides
Photos
Documents