“Preserving Your History” is a series of four workshops to engage residents around their neighborhood’s heritage and heritage spaces. Each of the four workshops is a progressive session, building knowledges and practical steps to safe keeping narratives and spaces for collective memory. Workshops are limited to one-hour, and a guest speaker will share insight on the corresponding workshop theme. Nedra Deadwyler, MHP, will walk people who attend through practical steps from a curriculum co-designed with Master of Public Health grad students in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory in 2020. Upon Completion of the four workshops, people who attend will have a basic plan to advocate, preserve, and include others in the process of preserving their neighborhood history.

Workshop themes

1. Introduction to Historic Preservation
2. Building the Story of Your Community
3. Preserving Your Community Space
4. Advocating for Your Community Space

Anyone is welcome and we do not recognize borders. Our values are antiracist and center belonging. In this process, we aim to build community across race, class, gender, gender expressions, language, and locations. Anyone seeking understanding and building an environment of shared authority and ownership of preserving neighborhood history is welcome to join this series of events.

All workshops are hosted virtually and will be in a private zoom account.

Please note that your contribution goes to providing a $25 gift certificate to a locally owned (BIPOC and/ or Queer and/ or immigrant or refugee) business and to help continue this workshop series.

Guest Speakers

Tanya Debose, Preserving Communities of Color

Leslie Spencer, Sankofa Cultural Resources

Edith Kelman, BiRacial History Project

Jonathan Pereza Campos and Catilina Valdez, The Buford Highway People’s Hub