Black Image Center and the Perennial Memory Lab present the first in a series of traveling workshops studying memory-keeping culture nationwide. Join us as we transform our memories into living archives and learn about what connects us in the process!

Our pilot workshop, Family Trees and Mysteries, is designed to help you uncover and tend to the abstract parts of your history. This workshop offers tools and strategies to create personalized frameworks for compassionate archival inquiry, from hushed family stories to photos of familiar faces you can't name. Together, we'll explore dynamic ways to preserve and share our family legacies.

Please Note: Each PML workshop is a little different, based on people and place. This session may be recorded to serve as a reference in our ongoing research. Of course, you’ll have the option to opt out of being featured in workshop videos. Our top priority is creating an intimate learning environment where folks feel comfortable and connected. We also invite all participants to share their feedback in short follow-up surveys to help us continuously improve on our programming. Thank you for your contributions!

Facilitated by Kennedy Arnette, Creator of the Perennial Memory Lab

Kennedy is an interactive media designer, gardener, and memory-keeper who works to strengthen the intuitive connections between generations so our memories may remain a source of knowledge and healing. Greatly inspired by their own complex family relationships, Kennedy's primary goal as an archivist is to assist historically excluded and diasporic groups in uncovering and sharing their stories in ways that best suit their unique needs and expressions.

To learn more about Kennedy’s research with the Perennial Memory Lab you can visit their website KennedyArnette.com