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Building relationships is hard. Working with and through institutions is even harder. Collaborative and collective partnerships, where resources and ideas move freely between partners, is essential for sustaining and expanding community-based work. This workshop explores ways for cultivating strong relationships with funders and community and institutional partners. Participants will leave with a concrete set of approaches for building relationships and collaborative projects that leverage collective strengths to make the most of limited resources.
This third event in the series ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship, and Knowledge-Keeping is an in-person screening of the documentary Sansón and Me, directed by Rodrigo Reyes. During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together for over a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood—featuring members of Sansón's own family. Reyes enacts multiple forms of participatory authorship in his films, documenting the process of continual renegotiation with subjects and the narrative that emerges as a third space wherein the hidden poetry of marginalized communities flourishes. This event will feature a screening by Reyes, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
