The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the Making of an Archive digitization sessions at the Powell Street Festival

The Powell Street Festival will be presenting digitization sessions on The Making of an Archive at the Vancouver Japanese Language School (487 Alexander Street) on August 5 and 6.

The Making of an Archive seeks to collect images of everyday life as photographed by Canadian immigrants, in a direct, collective, and exploratory approach. The aim of the project is to create a new archive that represents multiculturalism from the bottom up, where forms of civic engagement within a kinship structure or even in solidarity with other communities can be observed.

Artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn’s project consists of digitizing workshops, community outreach, digital recordings, and interviews, which are collected and preserved in the grunt gallery's archives.

The Making of an Archive digitization sessions will take place 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on both days of the festival.

The Powell Street Festival takes place on August 5 and 6, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Oppenheimer Park and surrounding streets and venues. The 41st annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts and culture includes a new interactive installation entitled Macro Maki, a special presentation on Japan’s third gender, a panel with two of Haruki Murakami’s top translators, and a performance by musical duo George and Noriko.