Self Archiving Workshop

Sunday, October 6 @ 4pm

21c Museum Hotel Lexington

Join us for a FREE presentation and workshop and learn how to archive and preserve your own LGBTQ history!

💚 The first 25 registrants will receive their own archiving kit at the workshop 💚

After the first 25, registration will remain open, but there will not be kits available for those participants. We will let registrants know before the event whether they will receive a kit or not.

The archiving kit will include: an archival box (roughly 12” x 5” x 10'') along with archival folders, envelopes, sleeves, and protectors. For these boxes, we recommend bringing documents, photographs, letters, postcards, and other flat material or small 3D items (like buttons, pins, ribbons, tshirts, etc.).

All you‘ll need to do is register online and then bring yourself and any documents/materials that you want to archive!

💚 Sunday, October 6 from 4pm-5pm

💚 21c Museum Hotel Lexington

💚 Registration Required (https://tinyurl.com/WorkshopFMA)

💚 Completely FREE!

First 25 registrants will receive their own archiving kit at the workshop

After the first 25, registration will remain open, but there will not be kits available for those participants

The archiving kit will include

• A Document-sized Archival Box (roughly 12-1/4 x 5 x 10-3/8'' H)

• Archival Folders

• Archival Envelopes, Sleeves & Protectors

• Instructions and Guidelines on the Basics of Archiving

• A "Legacy Giving" form for FMA

We will encourage participants to bring documents, photographs, letters, postcards, and other flat material to archive during the workshop. Other small 3D items (like buttons, pins, ribbons, tshirts, etc.) can also be archived in these boxes. Participants will also be encouraged to bring laptops to begin typing out a guide for their collection

At the event, we will go through a presentation about FMA, what we do, what we collect, and how we process it. Then, we will guide participants through archiving their own material and creating collection guides.