Next Week: En Foco & CCCADI: Honoring the Living Black Archive
"Honoring the Living Black Archive is a conversation between archivists examining and working to preserve and sustain the legacy of communities and cultural memory via the living black archive."
Hi all,
This popped up on my Instagram this morning from En Foco. Seems like an intriguing and rich discussion. The online event is free but RSVP is needed so wanted to send out reminder now. En Foco defines itself as “Founded in 1974, En Foco makes BIPOC photographers' work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-serviced communities.” I’ve become familiar with their work from their free-to-apply grants and scholarships, as well as diverse programming. Information about event below. Exciting to see Chayanne Marcano, Associate Producer & Archivist at the Abrons Arts Center will be in attendance.
Honoring the Living Black Archive in conversation with Chayanne Marcano & Stephanie Alvarado, moderated by Melody Capote, and curated by Tarisse Iriate & Danny R. Peralta at En Foco (Zoom, RSVP here)
Thursday 2/23, 6:30pm-8pm
Our Black history/futures program will begin with a presentation paying homage to Hiram Maristany (1945-2022), a most prolific and renowned Afro-Nuyorican photographer, documentarian, and activist revered and respected for capturing the multifaceted lives of Puerto Ricans in East Harlem for over sixty years.
The discussion will be Moderated by En Foco’s Curator-at-Large, Tarisse Iriarte, and featuring Melody Capote (Executive Director CCCADI) who is a long time friend of the late Maristany, she will be joined by Chayanne Marcano (Archivist/Associate Producer-Abrons Art Center), and Stephanie Alvarado (Archivist/Memory worker/Activist).
Our esteemed panelists will guide a conversation detailing their archival practice and approaches to historical archiving, preservation and digitization. Their work amplifies how the Black archive aims to propel communities forward during a time of rapid cultural displacement. Panelists will discuss how communities throughout New York City are turning to archives as a tool for activism and to memorialize relationships. The conversation will focus on how black archives bring together communities from across the diaspora who share similar and distinct histories of struggle, joy and radical imagination.
NOTE: The session will begin promptly at 6:30pm, please be sure to sign into the Zoom client by 6:25pm to ensure you wont miss anything!