vestiges heritage project
community + memory + archive= IMAGINATION

Vestiges Heritage preservation Project is a hybrid folk arts education convening for cultural practitioners and community members interested in learning, exploring and engaging with practical methods of heritage preservation and cultural production. The quarterly  gatherings are designed to educate inter-generational audiences on the importance and accessibility of resources to help preserve familial cultural treasures, identity formation technologies and deepen the individual and collective relationship with the environment and its correlation to the social // cultural sciences

Each Lab will invite cultural practitioners who share an explicit interest in the presentation and preservation of afro-Atlantic heritage technologies. The lab allows room for practitioners to share current areas of inquiry and creative research for the sake of cross pollination and collective memory interpretation.

At its core the lab sets out to experiment with various methods of presenting archival data to inter-generational audiences for collective creative reinterpretation. 


The memory lab advocates for the decolonization of archive by  decentralizing western standards and uplifting the pantheon of traditional and non traditional notions of archive/memory preservation and the keep keeping
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As descendants of the diaspora memory is the data-base that  connects us across  the time-space-spirit  continuum.  how do we utilize the ancestral archives of cultural technologies like movement photography creative writing--glyph– sigils food ways, social games, material objects --as pathways to recalling. As methods of retrieving new perspectives, titillating new memories and associations with imagination and time.

a Special thanks to our Partners and city funding to assist with this ongoing research


Community Artist Collective
5301 Arts and Culture Lab
The African American Research Library
at the Gregory SChool

Ecotones WORLD
Kindred Stories
Roots for life
acres for Ancestry

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I excite when I hear read watch once lived story poems of emancipation's Jubilation--cotton picking plucked in burlap sacs full of weevils wobbling 'bout the treacherous bulb-- drifted on the shores of the Atlantic in the bosom of Osun where cakes were offerings of meal tilled and readied by han-- the stars and mathematics--rituals and villages filled with shoes made for walking the nomadic tribes --the drifters the seeds--  it all reminds me of my reason, gives possibility on as to how life was simplicity tightly wove sewn crocheted into complexity, cause those living then considered what life living would be fore me in the now."

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