South Side Community
Archiving Now

Brunch with DJ Rae Chardonnay + discussion with innovative South Side archiving initiatives moderated by Adrienne Brown

Saturday, April 22 · 11am – 2pm

Green Line Performing Arts Center

329 East Garfield Boulevard Chicago, IL 60637

Join us for a special brunch event to celebrate the brilliant innovations in archiving on Chicago’s South Side! We will be joined by a group of local archivists whose projects during and after the pandemic have re-energized and expanded the possibilities for community-engaged archiving. This is a unique opportunity to learn from and connect with field experts while enjoying some delicious brunch treats. Don’t miss out on this chance to expand your knowledge and be part of the conversation!

11am- Brunch Buffet with music by DJ Rae Chardonnay
12pm-Adrienne Brown, Director of Arts + Public Life, moderates a discussion on how archiving is evolving to address modern challenges while sustaining a commitment to community engagement and creative activation.

Panelists:
Meida McNeal, representing the Chicago Black Social Culture Map, a project of Honey Pot Performance

Stacie Williams, representing Diamond in the Back, a project of The Blackivists

Tempestt Hazel, representing Chicago Archives + Artists Project and Loss/Capture, projects of Sixty Inches From Center

Justin Williams, representing Spinning Home Movies, a project of the South Side Home Movie Project

Kimberly C. Ransom, representing the Mellon Archives Innovation Program, a project of Rebuild Foundation

This program is presented by South Side Home Movie Project, an initiative of Arts + Public Life, and is supported by a Sustaining Public Engagement grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Meida McNeal
is Artistic and Managing Director of Honey Pot Performance. She received her PhD in Performance Studies (Northwestern) and her MFA in Choreography & Dance History (Ohio State). Awards include Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Performance, Field Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago, 3Arts Award in Dance, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, and the Links’ Hall Co-Missions Fellowship. An Independent Artist and Scholar at the intersection of performance studies, dance, and critical ethnography, Meida also teaches at University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Meida also works with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events’ Executive Administration team as the Senior Manager of Arts & Community Impact Investments building and implementing artist recovery programs and creative placemaking grant-making initiatives. Prior to this role, Meida worked with the Chicago Park District as Arts & Culture Manager supporting community arts partnerships, youth arts, cultural stewardship, and civic engagement initiatives.

Stacie Williams
is Division Chief over Archives and Special Collections at the Chicago Public Library. Through her work, she focuses on ethical labor and cultural production, and the long-term sustainability of digital infrastructure. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an M.S. in Library Science with a concentration in Archives and Manuscripts Management from Simmons College. She serves on the advisory board for the international Digital Library Federation and the Library of Congress’ National Digital Strategy Roundtable. Stacie uses she/her/hers pronouns. Expertise: data management, data rescue, digitization, digital infrastructure, digital preservation, e-waste lifecycle, archives and manuscripts management, oral history, community outreach and engagement, journalism/mass communication.

Tempestt Hazel
is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a Chicago-based collective of writers, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who have published and produced collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, and culture in the Midwest since 2010. She has worked alongside artists, organizers, grantmakers, and cultural workers to explore solidarity economies, cooperative models, archival practice, and systems change in and through the arts. You can see more of her editorial, curatorial, and other projects at tempestthazel.com.

Justin Williams
(he/him) is a memory-worker, documenter, and an audiovisual archivist. His practice emerges from a mix of in/formal training and apprenticeships in black memory-keeping traditions, art and cultural studies, participatory design, media technology, and archival practices. He enjoys working at the margins of memory and media to recover and share the personal and communal narratives that allow us to find honor, connection, and meaning in the cultural heritage objects we are lucky enough to preserve. As the South Side Home Movie Project’s Archivist and Project Manager, Justin is honored to work closely with families to preserve and share their home movies as well as the artists, students, researchers and community members who seek to creative engage and reuse these incredible documents of personal documentation. Justin has worked with Kartemquin Films, the Logan Center’s Digital Storytelling Initiative, Community Film Workshop of Chicago, Storycorps, City Bureau, and partnered with dozens of organizations to design and produce digital storytelling projects.

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Tags: Arts + Public Life, Chicago, Green Line Performing Arts Center, Justin Williams, Kimberly C. Ransom, Meida McNeal, South Side Community Archiving Now, Stacie Williams, Tempestt Hazel., Washington Park