Learn 29 Jan 2024

Dig With Us

Overview Get involved with Dig Where You Stand through our resource pack, training programme, one-off events and exhibitions.
Description

Dig Where You Stand is an archival justice movement that brings together artists, activists, educators and community members. We want to empower people to access their local archives and discover new stories for themselves. Join us and start digging today.

Resource Pack

We will soon be sharing a new DWYS resource pack. This will be free to download for community groups, schools and colleges to use when “digging” into the local history of their own communities. The resources here share stories found in Sheffield Archives but we want you, with the help of this pack, to go to your own archives . Digging starts with you.

Training Programme

We have collaborated with WOC Azadi Collective to develop an archival training programme for women of colour. This is to address the historic erasure of women of colour from archival spaces. It is also to create a safer space for unpacking the violence in the archive, learning about the lost and fragmented lives contained within it, and supporting one another on this archive journey. Workshops take place once a month over six months. And each workshop is followed by a group meal.

Registration for the next series of workshops will open in November 2024

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Resources

resource 02 Oct 2024

Training Workshop 2023-24

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resource 05 Jan 2024

Resource Pack

We will soon be sharing a new DWYS resource pack. This will be free to download for community groups, schools and colleges to use when “digging” into the local history of their own communities. The resources here share stories found in Sheffield Archives but we want you, with the help of this pack, to go to your own archives. Digging starts with you.

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resource 19 May 2023

Artist Commissions Brief 2023/24

We are commissioning 7x emerging / mid-career artists to expand this work. Selected artists will be invited to explore local archives and produce creative responses over a 6 month period. A public exhibition will be held in July 2024. Drawing from the socialist legacy of Dig Where You Stand, we are particularly interested in regional stories about working class people of colour. We also place an emphasis on stories from before 1945. This disrupts mainstream narratives about migration in Britain, which suggests that people of colour only came to these shores after World War II. However, we remain open to other areas of interest expressed by artists.

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resource 15 May 2023

Artist micro commissions brief 2023/24

We are commissioning 3x new or emerging artists to expand this work. Selected artists will be invited to explore local archives and produce creative responses over a 6 month period. A public exhibition will be held in July 2024. Drawing from the socialist legacy of Dig Where You Stand, we are particularly interested in regional stories about working class people of colour. We also place an emphasis on stories from before 1945. This disrupts mainstream narratives about migration in Britain, which suggests that people of colour only came to these shores after World War II. However, we remain open to other areas of interest expressed by artists.

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