Possibly of interest to folks here:
http://www.shapingsf.org/public-talks/
Wed. Sept. 25, 7:30 pm (in the Mission, details at the URL)
Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History What role do nontraditional archives play in the preservation and interpretation of peoples' history? This open discussion will explore some of the opportunities and challenges of radical repositories.
Some of the issues that will be addressed include:
What defines a radical archive? What can be productive relations between community-based or independent archives and more established (and establishment) institutions? What tools and processes are making it easier to document, catalog, and share oppositional cultural objects? What is the role of ordinary people in building useful collections?
Speakers: Lincoln Cushing is a professional archivist responsible for Docs Populi - Documents for the Public, documenting and disseminating social justice poster art. He is also archiving consultant with the Oakland Museum of California helping to process the All Of Us Or None poster collection. Claude Marks is the Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project, restoration center, and media production facility in San Francisco. Nathaniel Moore is an archivist at the Freedom Archives. He has a MA in African Studies and a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
Shaping SF is really cool. Chris Carlsson http://www.nowtopians.com/, who started the group, is the guy who helped start Critical Masshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)bike rides in 1992 and who has publicized them with several books. He has also written a number of history essays and books, including Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100958430(disclosure: I contributed a chapter, so I'm probably a bit biased:)
They've also started a wiki (on MediaWiki software of course) called Found SF http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Main_Page, which seeks to tell the untold stories in San Francisco history. Some really interesting reads.
I'd also recommend the bicycle history tourshttp://www.shapingsf.org/tours.htmlChris leads around the city - amazing way to see sites/sights you've never been to and learn all about their history.
And for those local history buffs who aren't aware of the resource, I can't begin to explain how amazing the SF History Centerhttp://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200002501is at the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch. Head up to the 6th Floor and check it out. Their photo archive is extraordinary.
-Matthew
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Possibly of interest to folks here:
http://www.shapingsf.org/public-talks/
Wed. Sept. 25, 7:30 pm (in the Mission, details at the URL)
Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History What role do nontraditional archives play in the preservation and interpretation of peoples' history? This open discussion will explore some of the opportunities and challenges of radical repositories.
Some of the issues that will be addressed include:
What defines a radical archive? What can be productive relations between community-based or independent archives and more established (and establishment) institutions? What tools and processes are making it easier to document, catalog, and share oppositional cultural objects? What is the role of ordinary people in building useful collections?
Speakers: Lincoln Cushing is a professional archivist responsible for Docs Populi - Documents for the Public, documenting and disseminating social justice poster art. He is also archiving consultant with the Oakland Museum of California helping to process the All Of Us Or None poster collection. Claude Marks is the Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project, restoration center, and media production facility in San Francisco. Nathaniel Moore is an archivist at the Freedom Archives. He has a MA in African Studies and a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
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On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Possibly of interest to folks here:
http://www.shapingsf.org/public-talks/
Wed. Sept. 25, 7:30 pm (in the Mission, details at the URL)
Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History What role do nontraditional archives play in the preservation and interpretation of peoples' history? This open discussion will explore some of the opportunities and challenges of radical repositories.
Some of the issues that will be addressed include:
What defines a radical archive? What can be productive relations between community-based or independent archives and more established (and establishment) institutions? What tools and processes are making it easier to document, catalog, and share oppositional cultural objects? What is the role of ordinary people in building useful collections?
Speakers: Lincoln Cushing is a professional archivist responsible for Docs Populi - Documents for the Public, documenting and disseminating social justice poster art. He is also archiving consultant with the Oakland Museum of California helping to process the All Of Us Or None poster collection. Claude Marks is the Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project, restoration center, and media production facility in San Francisco. Nathaniel Moore is an archivist at the Freedom Archives. He has a MA in African Studies and a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
-- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810
NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*
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