The 2nd Annual Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference took place at the iconic TIFF Lightbox in downtown Toronto. This year's event was an exceptional gathering of experts, enthusiasts, and innovators in the fields of media archiving and heritage.
Conference Details:
Location: TIFF Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5
Dates: July 12-14
The Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Building Alliances (GAVA) is a collaborative event and outreach program co-organized by Archive/Counter-Archive, the Eye Filmmuseum, and the Toronto International Film Festival that aims to foster an international network around AV community archives from parts of the world that have historically been left out of mainstream archival discussions. GAVA brought together archival specialists from across Canada and around the world with a wide range of expertise, experience, and engagement with media archives at an equally wide variety of scales. The discussions, presentations, screenings, video series, workshops, and tours that comprise this project largely focused on community archives and archival projects by activists and artists. The focus on marginalized audiovisual archives is imperative and directly linked to the urgency of the current situation.
Schedule Now Available:
The schedule for GAVA is also now available on our website (https://counterarchive.ca/gava-program). In addition to the three main days of the conference (July 12-14), there was alsoan opening reception at Toronto Metropolitan University on the evening of July 11 and a full-day tour of several local Toronto archives on July 15 that is being coordinated by Cléo Sallis-Parchet (York University).
Click here to download a PDF copy of the current version of the conference schedule.