Our programs are informed by and developed around our passion for preserving, promoting, and accessing humanity’s memory to foster understanding and acceptance. We have designed these programs to assist and collaborate with organizations who wish to have physical and intellectual control over their collections; to promote the public’s engagement with cultural heritage; and to share our experience and expertise with scholars, professionals, and the public.
Making the past accessible starts with knowing what we have. This program aims to assist organizations, particularly community-based and smaller ones, to establish or increase physical and intellectual control over their collections. Documentation is the first step towards protecting tangible, intangible, and built heritage that is threatened by climate change, man-made or natural disasters, theft, and neglect compounded by lack of resources.
This program encompasses projects that involve
- Survey and documentation of collections through inventories, catalogs, and finding aids
- Risk assessment and management plans (including sustainability issues (green energy, solar power, etc.), fire & flood protection)
- Consultations about the promotion of collections through exhibits (physical and digital); public history projects; guided heritage tours; mobile tours; public outreach.
These are programs that aim to promote the public’s engagement with cultural heritage, particularly digitized collections of the Caribbean that are often accessible to North American or European audiences, but relatively unknown and underutilized by people in originating communities. Additionally, this program aims to contribute to knowledge, competences, and skills development across the population, which facilitates both active, as well as lifelong learning. Increased knowledge and skills are important in the context of populations in small islands.
This program involves outreach through events, lectures, and workshops that foster
- Public engagement with digital or physical collections
- Family History through workshops such as on genealogy, personal and family archiving or oral histories
- Lifelong learning and research through based on heritage collections or learning of new skills and tools
Through this program, we share our experience and expertise with scholars, professionals, and the public. We believe that personal growth, leadership development, and enhancement of skills and competences are important for heritage professionals in small island nations.
This program offers signature workshops and events targeted for heritage professionals, as well as for volunteers and interns, such as
- Personal growth
- Leadership and communication
- Skills training and technical competencies