Documenting Caribbean Diasporic Communities: How to Archive Local Histories
Event Date:
October 25 @ 5:00 pm
Event Navigation
Venue:Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)770 NE 125th Street North Miami, FL 33161 |
Organizer:Digital Library of the Caribbean(305) 348-3008 dloc@fiu.edu |
Program Description:
The Digital Library of the Caribbean will partner with the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Incubator and Nomadic Archivists Project to hold a series of workshops discussing community archives and the need for historic preservation work in the Caribbean Diasporic communities. Miranda Mims and Steven G. Fullwood, Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP), will offer advice on how to preserve your papers, records, or memorabilia. Bring your 3-dimensional items, artwork, birth and death certificates, cemetery records, census records, comicbooks, immigration/naturalization papers, manuscripts, maps, military records, newspapers, obituaries, photographs, posters, and more. See you there!
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