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A team comprising five members from the Northeast India AV (NEIAV) Archive embarked on a visit to Japan from February 13th to 22nd, 2024. This visit was extended as a cordial invitation from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) under the ongoing initiative titled "Preserving and Sharing Histories and Memories of Northeast India." The purpose of the visit was to facilitate learning opportunities regarding audio-visual equipment and management for archive preservation at the Fuk

The Oral History Workshop was organised on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of April, 2023 as an initiative to sensitise the public consciousness about the importance of Oral History, specially in a land like ours where entire cultures have been inherited orally for as long as they have existed. The workshop addressed the topics of the definition of oral history and its importance, and the processes of recording oral history. It also allowed the discussion of ethical issues related to th

On the 7th to 10th November, 2022, The Northeast India AV Archive organised a workshop for the staff of IPR Department, Government of Sikkim. The Workshop on Cataloguing and Digitising began with a session on the foundation of Archival studies, the philosophy of and need for archives especially in this region of the country, which was delivered by filmmaker and activist Tarun Bhartiya. The attendees were instructed about the role that archives play in organisations and govern