Sou Sou! Saturdays: Crafting Memory, Building Legacy

Join us on Saturday, November 15th for a special edition of Sou Sou! Saturdays titled “Crafting Memory” — co-presented with PMCA (Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Archive) and guided by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) Community Archiving Lab for Culture and Justice. At this event, community members can digitize photos, slides, negatives, CDs, DVDs, or videotapes (DV, VHS, Hi8) to be digitized and preserved. Participants will leave with a free USB drive with your digital files. We will not keep physical items. If your digitized materials focus on placemaking, the built-environment, and/or cultural preservation in Harlem, then you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Archive.

About Sou Sou! Saturdays:
Inspired by the financial resource-sharing traditions known throughout the African Diaspora by such names as “Colecta”, “Box Hand”, “San”, “Partna”, or “Sou-Sou”, this family-based art and education program reinterprets Sou Sou as an exchange of cultural resources. Sou Sou! Saturdays celebrates and honors our connections by upholding our traditions of collective growth, mindfulness, celebration, and creativity with families of all ages.

About PMCA (Harlem Place, Memory & Culture Archive):
The Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator (PMCI) is a new initiative within the Spitzer School of Architecture. Funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, it seeks to redefine the role of preservation in the face of ongoing urban transformations in Harlem. The Incubator aims to interact with Harlem communities to transform the ways in which students engage and connect with their deep-seated histories. Design studios will record, visualize, and preserve heritage while projecting innovative, resilient cultural and spatial futures.