Calling the Conjurers: An Otherwise Symposium for Technologies of Black Life and Study - Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis
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.
