Welcome to Archive/Counterarchive
Archive/Counter-Archive is a project and research network dedicated to activating and preserving audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and People of Colour, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities. Political, resistant, and community-based, counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories.
Established in 2018 through a Social Science and Humanities Partnership Grant, the network is committed to finding new ways to activate, preserve and restore Canada's diverse moving image heritage. Our evolving mandate combines education and advocacy to raise awareness and find resources to support audio-visual preservation -- with a special focus on short format media which have very few resources available for preservation.
News and Events
Check out what's on at Archive/Counter-Archive below! Visit our News and Events page for complete listing.
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Ave
Toronto ON
Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past
Toronto Living With AIDS: Finding a Future in the Past is a roundtable/book launch for an edited volume on the community cable television series Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA). In-person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto. ASL available. Saturday, March 16 | 2pm EST | 90 min.A/CA Members at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2024 Conference
Congratulations to the many past and present A/CA members who are presenting their research at this year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference on March 14-17, 2024, in Boston, Massachusetts!
Working Papers Series: Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier | Zoom, Feb 20
Earlier this week, Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier presented her paper "I Say the Only Plot I Can Write is a Life: Lucy Lippard's Feminist Fiction" as part of our ongoing Working Papers Series. If you did not get a chance to join us live on Zoom for Béatrice's talk, we now have a recording of the presentation available on our website and Vimeo channel.Case Studies
Our Case Studies examine a range of themes, media, histories, and geographies through a selection of Canadian, community-based, and independent archives and collections.
See Case StudiesWorking Groups
Working Groups provide a resource for the Case Studies and extend the research through papers, policy recommendations, workshops, exhibitions, and public talks.
See Working Groups