LGBT Archiving in India: a meeting in Bengaluru, Aug 17-18, 2013
From: Niruj, Amrita, Alternative Law Forum
In order to bring people who are working on archives together, and also to present a couple of pilot projects we have been doing in Bengaluru, we are organising this workshop on Aug 17-18.
The aims of this workshop include
- Bring together such people for the first time in the country
- Present our pilot projects to the community and have others share theirs too
- Enable a discussion on the nature of such LGBT archives – content, form, etc, and share experiences and ideas
- Start initiatives for future projects across the country
- Build a community of people who would nucleate such activities where they live
Programme : The first day will be panel discussions with some of the people who have been involved in archiving efforts in the country. The second day involves more general discussions on topics of interest to archiving practices in the future. We invite you all to participate in these workshops. We will be putting up material on the panelists work before the workshop to facilitate fruitful discussion. The preliminary programme is attached at the end of this email (almost all panelists listed have confirmed).
Day 1 : Aug 17, Saturday
9:30 AM Welcome & Logistics – Niruj Mohan
9:40 AM Why do we need to archive? – Lawrence Liang
10:00 AM Archiving the Present : a panel discussion – Shivaji Panikkar, C. S. Lakshmi, Saleem Kidwai
11:00 AM Tea Break
11:30 AM Presenting ArGaSMI – Niruj Mohan, Sonu Niranjan, Priya Prabhu, Amrita Chanda, Shubha Chacko
12:15 PM Presenting an archive of Indian LGBT films – Namita Malhotra
12:30 PM Online Archives : a panel discussion – L. Ramakrishnan, Namita Malhotra, Amrita Chanda, Shubha Chacko, Poorva Rajaram
1:15 PM Lunch
2:30 PM Screening of Bolo movie
2:45 PM Archiving our experiences : a panel discussion – Sridhar Rangayan, Sunil Mohan, Sumathi Murthy, R. Revathi, T. Jayashree, Priya Babu
4:00 PM Tea Break
4:30 PM Resurrecting histories – Owais Khan, Ayisha Abraham, Indian memory project
Day 2 : Aug 18, Sunday
10:00 AM Global LGBT archives – Niruj Mohan
10:15 AM What to archives, Who archives, How to archive ? – General Discussion
11:15 AM Tea Break
11:45 AM Future projects, networking, archival practices – General Discussion
12:45 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Archival footage
2:15 PM LGBT archiving for global South – General Discussion
3:15 PM Feedback and Summary
4:00 PM Tea Break
4:30 PM Technical issues (internet- focussed) – General Discussion
Note: Orinam is part of this effort to archive our LGBT histories.
We at Satrang (Southern California) try and gather our “firsts” and also any media exposure. However, there are so many other things and ways to archive our history and stories that I wish I was attending this conference! Not only would I learn new things, I would meet such amazing people (including some whom I know personally)! All the best!
WE WILL BE COMING FROM INDORE. WELL WE ARE AN ORGANIZATION CALLED BADLAAV FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO JOIN YOUR WORKSHOP.
Its really a very nice step for the whole community. Such things should happen quite often.
Hello all, I will be coming from Delhi based NGO, TARSHI ( Talking About Reproductive Health and Sexual Issues).
Really looking forward to being part of this archiving.