Last fall, the Remember2019 collective successfully collaborated with community members throughout Phillips County, Arkansas to reckon with the history of the Elaine massacre. Over the course of eight weeks they organized and supported oral history6 project, a statewide tour of the music concert “Black ‘n da Blues,” and three Listening Parties where members of the community gathered to listen, remember, dance, eat, dream, and celebrate Black freedom in Phillips County. 
Through this workshop, we will share about various efforts to memorialize the Elaine Massacre, one hundred years after it occurred, and we will discuss how you might develop you own local listening parties to uplift the histories within your community!
Remember 2019 is an effort to make space for the congregation of the Black communities and Black cultural workers of Phillips County, AR. Our work is to support and facilitate local practices of self-determination, memory, and reflection that are directly related to the mass lynching of 1919, the lasting effects of racial terror, and the current and future health of these communities. 

Led by Arielle Julia Brown, co-creative producer of Remember 2019, social practice artist and facilitator, and Mauricio Tafur Salgado, co-founder of Artists Striving to End Poverty, co-creative producer with the Remember2019 Collective, and Assistant Arts Professor at New York University