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"Using Time: An Invitation for Creative Connections Between Communities and Archival Materials"

Presented by Hali Dardar (United Houma Nation)

Incorporating archival materials into creative processes requires a unity and relation with vision, community, and archive. This can be a delicate web hewn from valuable threads of personal relation and collective will. The vast possibilities, spanning success through failure, in this process can be offputting. This presentation is an encouragement to consider ways to begin to create and express with archival relations.

Within this talk, Hali Dardar will describe a few ongoing creative projects, and explicate the elements of archival collaboration, community input, and personal vision. These experimentations span from success through failure. Discussing these can illuminate the hesitations and needs of archival patrons to archivists aiming to support creative projects, and further equip individuals with innovative ideas with guidance in archival collaboration.