Memorials serve as sites of invitation. To remember. To rest. To witness. To gather. To organize. 

The Void, an ongoing counter-memorial to HIV / AIDS, prioritizes gathering in public space as a radical invitation to honor our dead - together, out loud - to feel, discuss and take action around the ongoing AIDS crisis and interconnected issues. 

For this participatory lecture, the history and various uses of The Void will be shared, before it is activated in the space as an opportunity to bring voice to connecting issues, realities and tactics emerging from the HIV response alongside other contemporary calamities.  Click here to read more…

How do you create compelling, ethical audio stories from oral history archives, old and new? In this workshop, Signal Hill editors Annie Rosenthal and Liza Yeager will share clips from Signal Hill stories that employ a range of tools and techniques.

Named one of the best podcasts of 2025 by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the BBC, the new audio magazine Signal Hill publishes audio documentaries of all kinds: longform reporting, essays, profiles, experimental shorts, and more. Many Signal Hill stories are….Read More here

Registration closes Sunday 9 PM, March 29
Using the asylum interview as a case study, this workshop examines what happens when people are forced to tell their stories repeatedly in high-stakes, transactional contexts—asylum interviews, social worker intakes, medical assessments—where narratives must yield specific survival outcomes. We'll explore the fundamental differences between these extractive systems and oral history practice, and develop concrete strategies for….Read More

Join this Hop-On as organizers of the Oral History Worker Collective, Sarah Dziedzic and David Wolinsky, talk about why the Collective was founded and its broader purpose to build connections between peer practitioners. They'll highlight one of the field's resources on oral history labor––the Independent Oral History Practitioner's Toolkit, an exhaustive how-to for contract oral history work––and introduce a new companion workbook. Sarah and David will also guide attendees ….Read More

What happens when oral history becomes a tool for collective healing? In this session, we'll explore how oral history methodology can be used to create space for sacred remembering, feeling, and imagining. Drawing from three projects centering Black women leaders—a salon healing circle, an elder visioning session, and a podcast—I'll share how I've held different spaces to invite Black women to honor the wisdom in oral history and apply insight to modern life.

We'll discuss how oral history allows us to see patterns repeat and imagine something new. How moving from quick sound bites to depth becomes an act of collective suturing….Read More

Join us for our first co-working session of the new year! Bring your oral history admin, questions, project design, and/or get your release forms composed and workshopped! Optional breakout rooms for this co-working session are available for the second half of co-working to promote discussion. Free/all are welcome. Click here to register