Community Archiving & Public EngagementScheduled, Fall and spring HIP intern project
E4 Living Archive Labs
E4 Living Archive Labs are structured story-capturing sessions that utilize HIP interns and support the Black Barbershop, Black Space, and Living Legends projects.
Contact E4 Youth about archive partnerships
What participants do
- Support story-capturing sessions with E4 Youth staff and partners.
- Help capture stories, photographs, audio, and video for future educational, archival, and public-facing use.
- Participate in testing and refining E4 Youth oral-history methodology.
What participants may learn or strengthen
- Oral-history methodology
- Research support
- Story capture
- Documentation
- Consent-aware community storytelling
How the program connects to community
The labs preserve community stories with context and care while building future educational, archival, and public-facing resources.
Supported roles and professional involvement
HIP interns participate in supported research and story-capture roles. They do not independently deliver professional productions.
Four-E evidence expected from this work
Engage
- Community members are invited as knowledge holders and contributors.
Educate
- Interns learn oral-history and documentation methods.
Empower
- Interns practice responsibility within supported story-capture sessions.
Elevate
- Stories can become future educational, archival, and public-facing resources.
Current timing and next step
Supports Black Barbershop, Black Space, and Living Legends projects.