This is the beginning of a journey to begin a permanent archive, collecting and recording the things that hold meaning to us for the future.
What we’ll do
We want to co-create a new archive that collaboratively documents and engages people with the heritage of Blackpool’s working class African and Caribbean community and their relationships to places and buildings in the town.
We’ll:
- Identify key significant locations. Inviting members of the community to contribute their stories, images and videos to the new archive.
- Train volunteers
- To take photographs, record film and record oral histories, learning how to gather stories from the local community in a way that suits them.
- Equip them with skills to interpret archive materials in accessible and engaging ways.
- Produce high-quality, creative workshops that will engage local people with the archive project.
We’ll collectively decide how the collection items/stories are shared. This could be via:
- Exhibitions & installations
- Zines & books
- Blog & social media posts
- Events
Together we’ll identify the best way of preserving and building the archive for the future.
This new permanent collection will be owned by AFRA (Blackpool African Caribbean Friends & Relations Association)/the local African Caribbean community and will be held online and at AFRA/Aunty Social’s new venue.
This project will create a brand new resource that centres the voices and heritage of the local african caribbean community, something which does not currently exist.
Blackpool African Caribbean Community Archive 