“Where We Eat, Is Where We Meet” with Jeremiah Ojo

This program is part of Kinfolk's Community Memory Fellowship. The Community Memory Fellowship is a program to preserve cultural narratives through innovative technology. The Fellowship invites talented storytellers — community archivists, historians,  librarians, griots, and socially engaged artists — from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and Queer communities to collaborate with Kinfolk in imagining new possibilities for community-based digital archives using emerging technology. The program supports the creation of immersive, location-based augmented reality (AR) experiences that bring untold and underrepresented histories to life in public spaces. This program is supported by AGOG.

Dreaming with the Archives is a multi-city initiative presented by Kinfolk Tech Foundation, set to launch on Juneteenth 2025, to mobilize emerging technology and celebrate imagination toward cultural preservation and social justice. In the words of James Baldwin, our histories are trapped within us — we carry our histories as they breathe life into the future. This initiative asks, “What are the futures we want when we dream beyond our current narratives and systems?” and “What stories need to be preserved in order to imagine and build those futures?”

As part of Dreaming with the Archives Initiative, these histories, drawn from the archive, will not merely be retold but re-dreamed and turned into portals of possibility, through the Kinfolk platform, for healing, collective liberation, and reimagining narrative and systemic change — centering the collective thriving and futures of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and Queer communities.