Creating Your Archive: A Presentation and Workshop with Raegan Swanson

Name: Creating Your Archive: A Presentation and Workshop with Raegan Swanson
Start: 2025-09-24T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-24T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 199 Richmond Street West, Street Level, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5V 0H4

Schedule

Wed Sep 24 2025 at 04:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

199 Richmond Street West, Street Level, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5V 0H4 | Toronto, ON

Join us for Creating your Archive, a special presentation and workshop led by Raegan Swanson, Executive Director of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ+ Archives. The session will focus on how artists can work to document their own story and history. Photos, letters, diaries, and art all tell a story about who we are and how we interact with the world. The workshop will include a discussion on how to collect your materials, how you might get materials organized, and what donating to an archive can include to preserve your creative legacy.
Creating your Archive is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024) on view at Onsite Gallery through to December 6, 2025.
About:
Raegan Swanson is the Executive Director of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives. She holds a Masters of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool and has worked as an archivist and archival advisor. She is PhD Candidate at the University of Dundee focusing on the role of community archives in Inuit communities in Québec. She is a former member of the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives Taskforce to respond to the “Calls to Action” Report from the TRC and a former co-chair of the ACA’s Indigenous Matters Working Group.
The ArQuives is the largest independent LGBTQ2+ Archives in the world and since 1973 the only LGBTQ2+ archives in Canada with a national scope. Visit and read further about their history and mission– arquives.ca
Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family.
We also acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts,
Ontario Arts Council an agency of the Government of Ontario, Toronto Arts Council, Nexus and Terra Foundation for American Art.