A conversation speculating on highways, urban renewal, and the longstanding effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre featuring geographer Dr. Jovan Lewis, and Tulsa-based activist, Kolby Webster. The conversation is moderated by Crystal Z Campbell and shared in conjunction with their OVAC Art 365 project: Hi, Hi, Hi, Highways. This talk is co-presented with OVAC and Archive Acts. Image Courtesy of Crystal Z Campbell.

This one-hour, virtual artist talk with Naima Lowe and Crystal Z Campbell is part of programming for OVAC ART 365, moderated by guest curator, Grace Deveney. This talk will riff on artistic sustainability, value, barter, currency, and legacies of architectural violence, specifically the highway, in conjunction with new artworks currently on exhibit at Living Arts (Tulsa, OK), which will travel to Untitled ARTSPACE At Untitled (OKC, OK) in August 2021. Co-presented by Archive Acts & Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC). Image Courtesy of Naima Lowe.

ALWAYS IN TIME: AN ARCHIVAL WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS & FILMMAKERS On December 15th, 5pm CST, Archive Acts presents a free workshop with media conservator Caroline Gil Rodríguez from XFR Collective. Moving through a wide range of formats from analog videotapes, born-digital, and analog film, we will share tactics for artists, videographers, and filmmakers to devise strategies for the care and conservation of their raw footage and completed film and video works. Topics include strategies for documentation and preservation, in addition to sourcing external frameworks such as community archives and distribution that can assist in long-term preservation of moving image works. Caroline Gil is a Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At MoMA, she collaboratively works with the media conservation team in the acquisition, exhibition, preventive conservation, and research of the collection’s audio, film, video, performance and software-based works. She is a graduate of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, holds a Director of Cinematography MA from Universidad de Barcelona-ESCAC and BA in Visual Arts. Watch on facebook live, Archive Act's Youtube Channel, or archiveacts.com. Special thanks to Tulsa Artist Fellowship for sponsoring this free program.

CO-PRESENTATION WITH OKNO#1 AND ARCHIVE ACTS: FEATURING Artists Jessica Harvey and Candice Lin December 12th, 2020 at 2pm CST Join us on Saturday, December 12th at 2pm for Ritual Archives, a conversation with artists Jessica Harvey and Candice Lin. We’ll explore the archival fringes found in Harvey and Lin’s work, from fictionalized artifacts and collections to new rituals for care and preservation, revealing a much less sterile, and far more human foundation of archival practice. Lin and Harvey both circumvent traditional expectations of the archive with materials as diverse as frozen urine, jarred farts, experimental fungi, and alchemical rituals of material and memory. Thanks to our generous sponsor, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, for supporting this series of three conversations with artists working with archives as reparative technology.

Thrilled to be presenting Archive Acts' last official film screening of 2020, programmed by Amsterdam-based curator Amal Alhaag. Amal Alhaag's film program and panel will be an in-depth conversation highlighting films and conversation on Black (intergenerational) life in Europe. In Amal's own words: Echoing Each Other How do we hold each other? How do we remember each other into the future? How do we show-up for each other when the stage lights are off? Echoing Each Other is an online gathering, a virtual living room that brings together three artists + curators whose work and thought draw from everyday intergenerational Black social life, love and communities. The films and panel conversation interweave oral stories, anecdotes, archives and cinematic references that shape Black (feminist)life, Black diasporic communities, practices and activism across borders, beyond marginalization and violence in Europe. Watch films on archiveacts.com from DECEMBER 7-14, 2020 featuring work by: FILMMAKERS: BARBY ASANTE PASCALE OBOLO SILVIA MARTES IDA DOES And of course, join us for the panel, Monday, December 7th, 2.30pm CST/9.30PM CET with programmer Amal Alhaag, artist and curator Barby Asante, and curator and artist and educator Pascale Obolo. Credit image: Unknown Black Woman teaching Amharic, Mieke Schlaman, Atria Archives (1998). Special thanks to @tulsaartistfellowship for sponsoring this program🎬

Presenting the third film program on Archive Acts curated by multidisciplinary artist and documentarian, Tamika Galanis: I FASHIONED MYSELF A MIRROR Watch the films from December 2-6, 2020 on archiveacts.com. From Tamika: 'I Fashioned Myself a Mirror features films made by women and non-binary makers from the Caribbean or of Caribbean descent. These films consider our proximity to archives—historical and personal—how we’re represented and how we’re writing ourselves in.' FILMMAKERS: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Deborah Jack Natalie Willis Rox Campbell Natalie Willis Kearra Amaya Gopee Tune in for the panel on Saturday, December 6, 2020 at 6.30pm CST with filmmakers: Kearra Amaya Gopee and Deborah Jack and programmer, Tamika Galanis. IMAGE COURTESY OF KEARRA AMAYA GOPEE Special thanks to @tulsaartistfellowship for sponsoring this program💫

CO-PRESENTATION WITH OKNO#1 AND ARCHIVE ACTS: FEATURING Latipa ((née Michelle Dizon) and Tia-Simone Gardner December 5th, 2020 at 2pm CST On December 5th, join us at 2pm for Geo Archives, a conversation with artists Latipa (formerly known as Michelle Dizon) and Tia Simone-Gardner. With migrations from the Phillipines to Los Angeles and floating the Missisippi River from Alabama to Minneapolis, we'll explore the cartography of place through feminist geo-political lenses. These artists, whose scholarly research centers their multidisciplinary creative praxes, will speak on interrogating lands and landscapes, decolonizing historical gazes, and centering intimacy, critical listening, and survivance. . Thanks to our generous sponsor, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, for supporting this series of three conversations with artists working with archives as reparative technology.

CO-PRESENTATION WITH OKNO#1 AND ARCHIVE ACTS: FEATURING Hailey Loman (LACA) and Heather Hart and Jina Valentine (Black Lunch Table) December 1st at 2pm CST On December 1st, join us for Artists Archiving Artists, a conversation with Hailey Loman, founder of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), and Jina Valentine and Heather Hart, co-founders of Black Lunch Table. We’ll explore how artists working outside traditional art institutions can produce lasting archives for artists and art communities that have been underacknowledged. We’ll consider the limits of the art historical canon, how art historical narratives are produced, and how artists can assert themselves into the historical record to expand, alter, and correct these hierarchies. Thanks to our generous sponsor, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, for supporting this series of three conversations with artists working with archives as reparative technology.

Join us for the second film program with Archive Acts. Material Memory is a rhythmically rich program of experimental short films curated by @devonnarines Devon Narine-Singh. Watch now on archiveacts.com ❣❣❣ Programmer's Notes: Material Memory is a survey of recent experimental films. These films privilege a visceral cinema. We can feel these films, we can touch them, but they are not physically present. These films argue for memory as living archive, as something to preserve, rather than let die." ❣❣❣ filmmakers (FILMS WILL BE ON VIEW FROM NOVEMBER 6-13th, 2020) KALPANA SUBRAMANIAN BLANCA REGO_aka BLANK LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE JOANNA HELFER NAZLI DINCEL KENGNÉ TÉGUIA ALEC BUTLER panelists (PANEL WILL STREAM NOVEMBER 12, 2020 @4pm CST ) KALPANA SUBRAMANIAN LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE ALEC BUTLER Devon Narine-Singh is a filmmaker and curator. His works have screened at Microscope Gallery, YOUKI International Youth Media Festival, NOFLASH Video Show, UltraCinema, The New School and The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He has presented screenings and presentations at The Film-Makers Coop, Maysles Cinema, NYU Cinema Studies and UnionDocs. He has a BFA in Filmmaking from SUNY Purchase. He is currently pursuing his MA in Screen Studies at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. Thanks to the @tulsaartistfellowship for supporting this round of programmers and filmmakers. (Film Still: from NAZLI DINCEL)

Archive Acts is a programming platform centering intersections of film and art, with archival practices. Kolby Ari, the first film programmer in this series, is a Tulsa, Oklahoma native that has a focus on urban design, sustainable land use and equitable community development. Kolby attempts to make typically dense and unfamiliar policy accessible through collaborations with the arts, city leaders and community stakeholders of all backgrounds. He has an extensive communications, grassroots, non-profits, and multi-media arts background that helps facilitate these groups towards best practice and inclusive designs. Kolby's film program is titled HOLD, HOPE, AND HEAL: SPATIAL JUSTICE IN BLACK SPACES. Films seeking rights to wrongs in spaces we hold dear. Gentrification, reclamation and spatial justice are centered in these BIPOC directed and written films. A panel featuring guests from each film will convene to discuss the intersections of the above themes across notable black spaces in the US including Tulsa’s own. filmmakers (FILMS WILL STREAMED ON archiveacts.com OCTOBER 15-22, 2020) SYMONE BAPTISTE @16KFilm ASH GOH HUA WASHINGTON KIRK @foodandrinkboulevard UFUOMA ESSI @ufuoma.essi panelists (PANEL STREAMED LIVE OCTOBER 18, 2020 @7pm CST. Watch it on this page, via Facebook Live at 7pm CST. Video will be archived and available to view later on archiveacts.com ) SYMONE BAPTISTE WASHINGTON KIRK UFUOMA ESSI All films and programs stream directly from the website, no registration needed. See the full schedule (with continual updates) on archiveacts.com. Scheduled guest programmers and presenters include: KOLBY ARI @_ari_air DEVON NARINE-SINGH @devonnarines AMAL ALHAAG @amalistique TAMIKA GALANIS @tamikagalanis JON DIERINGER @jondotd This programming has been made possible with generous support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.