New Project: Community Curating with Queer Norfolk
We are excited to introduce the launch of a new project at EAFA aimed at promoting and preserving Norfolk’s LGBTQ+ moving image heritage. With the support of the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, EAFA and project partners, Queer Norfolk, will work with community groups to develop guidance on preparing media for archives.
What is Community Curating?
At EAFA our collections are a unique record of the social and cultural histories of the East Anglian region. Community Curating is a new approach for us in which we will invite the communities we represent to play an active role in preserving their heritage for the future. Guided by the outputs of inclusive workshops held across Norfolk, this project will explore LGBTQ+ representation in our collection and how EAFA can support the preservation of queer material inside and outside of the archive.
Who are Queer Norfolk?
Queer Norfolk is a heritage charity, dedicated to digitally archiving the county’s LGBTQ+ past. Its mission is simple: find documents, objects, paintings, artefacts, photographs, landscapes, archaeology, films – anything that has a queer association – and add it to its digital, online archive.
We would love to hear from you
If you would like to contact the team about this project, have videos or other material that you would like to talk to us about preserving, or know of a community group in Norfolk we should get in touch with, please take a moment to fill in this form.