Join us for CCSN Chats, an exciting online panel discussion where you'll gain valuable academic and industry insights into the world of Creator Culture. Learn from experts who are at the forefront of this rapidly evolving landscape. Whether you're a scholar, researcher, industry professional, content creator, influencer, or simply curious about this phenomenon, this event is perfect for you.

Register here.

Online.

Join us March 26, 2025 at 3:00 pm EST as we host the first of our 2025 ATBW Workshop Series! In this webinar, ATBW will showcase our current web archiving projects, celebrate the launch of WARC school, and highlight the importance of archiving Black history online! We encourage all Archivists, Researchers, and Historians working with Black Collections or archiving the Black Web to attend! 

RVSP Here: https://bit.ly/atbw-workshop-1

Barney Building, NYU

Friday, Mar 14th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm

This talk and workshop will explore the power of archives as a tool for preserving Black queer stories, using Black queer history as a lens to help other marginalized groups discover how to archive their own personal histories. The session will delve into how archives are not just about keeping records, but also about memory, resistance, and community.

Through conversation and hands-on activities, participants will rethink what it means to archive, learning how storytelling, art, and lived experience can shape the way histories of marginalized communities are remembered and shared.

Witte Museum.

Black Digital Memory Work: What We've Seen, What We're Watching Out For, What We're Looking Forward To

Hear from some of the contributors of Preserving Disability in the first installment of our group book launch! This event will feature the book’s co-editors, Dr. Lydia Tang & Dr. Gracen Brilmyer, and some of our authors, who will discuss their contributions on the intersection of disabled archivists & archival work.

• Zakiya Collier, author of Rehousing Archivists: Attending to a Livable Future for A Black, Queer Disabled Memory Worker

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Join us to learn how your organization can apply Shift Collective’s insights to create affordable, sustainable, and ethical digital storage models tailored to the needs of small cultural memory organizations. Discover how this work seeks to address systemic inequities and build a future where community histories are preserved, respected, and accessible without exploitation or resource barriers.

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Stonewall National Museum,
Archives, & Library
1300 E Sunrise Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

Friday, Nov 15th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Join the Black Lesbian Archives in collaboration with the Stonewall National Museum Library & Archives for an exhibition and presentation discussing grassroots community building beyond borders. Featuring The ACHE Project (Oakland, California) and ADEFRA (Berlin, Germany). The global impact of physical, digital media spaces in our past, present and into the future.

To accompany the exhibition, please join us for a community workshop led by Erin Glasco and Zakiya Collier of Shift Collective. Erin and Zakiya will take us through Historypin, a community-centered digital archive that enables communities to collaborate, share, preserve, and explore local and global history through geographically based storytelling.

There will be light refreshments and food served. And an altar space for our past ancestors (feel free to bring something to share). This exhibition will be ongoing until January 2025.

RSVP here.

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Online.

Wednesday, Oct 16th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Calling all Archivists, Researchers, and Historians working with Black Collections or archiving the Black web.

Join Us on #AskAnArchivist Day! Wednesday October 16th at 3:00pm EST - 4:30 pm EST for a community call in partnership with Webrecorder to showcase and explore web archiving with Browsertrix powered by Webrecorder! 

This event will be moderated by Zakiya Collier, Camille Lawrence, and Lorena Ramirez-Lopez.

Register here: https://bit.ly/atbwebrecorder

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Online.

September 25, 2024
1:30-3:00pm

Fight the Power – New Memory Keeping
This panel offers discussions around the recognition of Memory Work, its applications, and implications for strengthening Black representation.

Details here.

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Virtual.

Beginning as a virtual gathering of 30 memory workers in June 2020, this multi-hyphenated group has grown to 200+ members that meet monthly and participate in on and offline discussions on how to sustain and better support our work with(in) Black communities while prioritizing care over capital.

Join Black Memory Workers

Virtual

Monthly Black Memory Workers Call

Join Black Memory Workers

Alchemizing Receiver D
It’s OK* Studios,
468 Queen St W
Toronto, ON M5V 2B2

2:00pm-4:00pm

Witnessing as Love Letter: A Community Memory Workshop with Zakiya Collier and Tonia Sutherland
In this community memory workshop, participants will use performance, creative writing, and Black memory technologies to explore acts of witnessing as a love letter to the archive(s), our ancestors, and ourselves. Participants are encouraged to bring an item–perhaps one tucked between the mattresses, hidden under the bed, pulled from the recipe book, or carefully stored in the recesses of memory–to reflect on, remember, and rewitness. In a world where Black memory is ignored, suppressed, and threatened, we call on participants to collectively steward Black memory through playing, crafting, embodying, witnessing, finding motion, making sound, and naming. Through this exploration of Black memory technologies, we can build relationships and infrastructures to hold the memories that sustain, nourish, and nurture us.

Details here.

Alchemizing Receiver D
It’s OK* Studios,
468 Queen St W
Toronto, ON M5V 2B2

11:00am-1:00pm

Memory Work, Mediated Technologies & Make Believe
This roundtable explores how we create meaning and maintain our legacies out of a range of sensory and memory apparatus including archival materials, aural and oral histories, and visual media. Considering what gets embedded into the information and stories we want to retain and seek to carry forward into the future, these speakers invite us to reflect on how we measure believability and assess what comprises our technological data, digital repositories, memory work projects, collective desires, and legacies.

Details here.

Virtual

Monthly Black Memory Workers Call

Join Black Memory Workers

DONNA
7 Cornelia St.
New York, NY

Barchives 18 celebrates International Workers Day (May Day) with a bar, an archivist, and a distiller dedicated to collective practices. DONNA (the bar) is a worker-owned, cooperative business in the West Village. Zakiya (the person) is a Brooklyn-based archivist/memory-worker and member of the New INC Cooperative Studies Track. This event is sponsored by The Community Spirit Vodka, a certified B Corporation committed to giving at least 5% of their revenue back to the community.

Join us at DONNA (7 Cornelia St.) at 3:00 on Saturday, May 4th to expand your perspectives on how businesses, institutions, and archives could work for workers

Register.

Bibliothèque nationale de France
(François-Mitterrand site)
Paris, France

Details.

Bibliothèque nationale de France
(François-Mitterrand site)
Paris, France

Details.

New Orleans – Four Points by
Sheraton French Quarter
Hosted by the Tulane University
Department of Communication
February 15-17, 2024

Black media studies stands as one of the most vibrant and vital areas of film and media studies. This conference seeks to bring together scholars working within the area to reflect on the history, present, and future(s) of the field. The hope is to draw in scholars who are emerging and established, working in US and global contexts, applying a variety of methods, and studying every dimension from production to consumption.

Details..

Jacob Javits Center
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001

“We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness” - bell hooks, Art on My Mind

Portraiture is a critical tool that informs historical narratives and supports the preservation of memory. Interpretation of these narratives is not static but dynamic—influenced by contemporary values, interests, and critical evaluation. Reflecting on the contributions of notable visual artists Carrie Mae Weems, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Ming Smith, and Marilyn Nance, among others housed in the Black Lunch Table archives, this conversation will explore the significance of portraiture as a site of cultural preservation, archival production, and collective memory in the digital age.

Details here.

Virtual.

Celebrate the power of “chosen families” in the queer community. These friendships often form some of the strongest bonds for those in the queer community as they come of age, seek to form their sexual and gender identity, and navigate being marginalized by society and/or rejected by members of their biological families. These friendships have led to the formation of houses in the ballroom scene, lifelong bonds, and the creation of art and archives documenting queer friendships.

Hear from artists and archivists who are honoring chosen families. Plus, we’ll share photos submitted by viewers of their chosen families.

Watch livestream here.

The People’s Forum
320 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

2:30-3:30pm

The process of archiving, art making, storytelling, and political resistance are integral to Black feminist movement building across time, space, and place. Featuring an intergenerational cohort of Black feminist archivists, organizers, artists, and surveyors of art, this panel will focus on the importance of memory work––particularly the significance of archiving our own histories, movements, lives, and narratives. How have mediums such as visual, multimedia, and performing arts, archives, and more influence past, present, and future Black feminist movements, politics, and individuals, and how we view, name, and claim ourselves?

Details here.

Hilversum, The Netherlands

Conference registration here.