OUR WORK
ARCHIVAL PROJECTS
AVP is dedicated to preserving the experiences and stories of individuals and communities who have endured state violence. We use trauma-informed and person-centered practices to honor contributors and ensure that their stories are documented and made accessible on their own terms. Using these approaches we continue to grow the archive, which currently consists of over 180 oral history interviews in addition to artwork, correspondence, zines, and videos.
ADVOCACY
The After Violence Project (AVP) advocacy centers the leadership of individuals, families, and communities directly impacted by state violence. With guidance from our Community Advisory Council, we are expanding our community advocacy efforts by “activating” our archives of stories and records of loss, resistance, and survival. We achieve our advocacy goals by activating TAVP archival materials through visual art, podcasts, storytelling, and restorative justice circles. We also create and maintain community with our narrators and community advisory council as a way to activate the archive.
Visit our Advocacy Page to view our Advocacy Blueprint and learn about advocacy opportunities.
PROGRAMS
Our Community Programs are the home of creative practices for memory work – from activating oral history projects to designing zines and events. AVP’s programming braids big ideas of memory work, advocacy, and community by turning the archive inside out, but also by bringing the community outside back in. These Community Programs deepen our relationships with narrators, interviewers, and creative practitioners while also ensuring that AVP learns from, collaborates with, and dreams alongside our community. They invite collective imagination into what stories we tend to and how we can best care for them.
Artist and Writer in Residence
AVP’s Artist & Writer in Residence engage with big ideas around community archiving, abolition, and storytelling and develop exhibits, zines, and other projects that reflect their creative practices.
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Visions After Violence Community Fellowship
AVP’s Visions After Violence Community Fellowship is an opportunity for community members to learn about trauma-informed interviewing and community-based archiving practices with the TAVP team and collaborators. Community Fellows then design, carry out, and activate oral history & documentation projects in their own communities.
Community Advisory Council
Our Community Advisory Council provides insight and guidance to TAVP’s documentation, collections, dissemination, trainings, public programming, and advocacy work. Led by AVP’s Community Advisor, the Community Advisory Council is composed of people who are directly impacted by state violence and/or have substantial prior experience with AVP’s work and mission. The Community Advisory Council helps the team approach potential projects, processes, and potential with care. he Community Advisory Council serves as another essential component of bringing our community into the center of everything we do.
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Community Archives Collaborative
The Community Archives Collaborative is a global peer support and resource-sharing
network for memory workers, educators, and activists working to honor long traditions of
survivance and liberation.
Access to Treatment
Our Access to Treatment Initiative highlights the barriers to mental health treatment facing family members of individuals who have been sentenced to death or executed and aims to work with the mental health community to reduce those barriers.
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ADVISING
The After Violence Project (AVP) is excited to announce the development of our community-based advising services. AVP’s advising opportunities share our mission and learnings with other organizations and groups, who are interested in practically applying our mindful approach, iterative processes, and/or community practices to their own memory work.
COMMUNITY ARCHIVING
AVP is a leader in trauma-informed, community-based oral history archiving. We share insights and collaborate with other community-based archives, grassroots advocacy groups, and institutions. We recognize the power of narrative extends beyond the archive. We see the archive, and community archiving, as a dynamic, ongoing process.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
AVP offers tailored workshops on trauma-informed interviewing, community archiving, and ethical documentation of social justice movements.
RESTORATIVE & CREATIVE PRACTICE
AVP practices restorative justice methods that center community needs and priorities.
ADVOCACY
AVP supports decarceration and abolition efforts, by centering impacted voices in policy discussions and coalition-building.
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