Queering the archive: Who tells your story? - Community Event

We invite you to join us in the first series of events under Queer Museum initiative and community, where we would like to explore together the intersections, urgency and responsibility of telling our own stories.

📅 Wednesday, 13.05., 18:30-20:30

📍 LGBT House, Stabu iela 19 (underground), Riga.

📝 Want to join? register via link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN8ERAasVjWuS5CQqCUx7Kval8ra93sfqRgoVWtP-vgbTrxw/viewform?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

For many marginalized communities, archives have often been shaped by outside perspectives, misrepresented, or erased altogether.

Within an open space and peer to peer learning approach, we want to connect, reflect and exchange experiences, knowledge, desires and collectively imagine the possible creation of a queer community archive.

Specifically to

• explore why community-led archives matter

• getting familiar with archival activism, and its different forms

• share tools and approaches for holding and preserving stories

Whether you’re an artist, activist, archivist, historian or simply curious, your presence matters. This is not a lecture, rather a space where we can start co-creating together.

We also invite you to actively contribute: feel free to bring an item you would be interested to donate to the archive and to this year’s exhibition. It can be anything, from a pride pin to an academic paper on queer-related studies. We will also have materials to craft, write, or paint something on the spot that can become part of the archive.

✨QMR on instagram @queermuseumriga

🎨 You can still become part of this year’s exhibition, a living archive of the past, present and future! All information and the details on the theme and application form is on our instagram account.

This event is taking place within Queer Museum Riga initiative. The initiative is part of the Pride Begins volunteering project, which is co-funded with the support of the European Union’s European Solidarity Corps programme, which is administered in Latvia by Jaunatnes starptautisko programmu aģentūra .