The West Adams Collectors Club is a free, intergenerational workshop series on archiving grassroots histories, hosted and organized by The William Grant Still Arts Center in collaboration with community members.

Eight workshops on eight Saturdays from 1:00-3:00pm.

Check out the workshop schedule: http://bit.ly/1F4AApP

From Black dolls and mix tapes to books, flyers, social movements and community spaces, learn about collecting, keeping, and exhibiting your own cultural and social history! Facilitated by community historians Billie Green, BJ’s Dress Up & Tea Garden; Alden Kimbrough, Independent Collector and Zambezi Bazaar; and C. Jerome Woods,The Black LGBT Project. Workshops are being developed in collaboration with “next generation” archivists Kelly Besser, Project Archivist UCLA Special Collections; Treva Ellison, Ph.D Candidate, University of Southern California, American Studies; and Dalena Hunter, Librarian UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies.

• Visit local archives, universities, and museums such as the USC ONE Archive, the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research , UCLA Special Collections and Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies at UCLA

• Be an archivist and build your own archive

• Display your archive in a group exhibit at The William Grant Still Arts Center in Fall 2015

For more information, visit:

westadamscollectorsclub.org

wgsac.wordpress.com

This project is made possible with the support from Cal Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org