Alter-Places is launching a new video series called : "Gets to know". These videos featured presentations and interviews with inspiring Alternative Cultural Places and projects (ACPs) connected to sustainability teams that align with our ongoing work. Since June, we have had the opportunity to visit many of these places and conduct interviews about their sustainability challenges and practices. Now, we are excited to share some of these insightful encounters with you.

First, these videos aim to deepen your understanding of the themes explored in Alter-Places' workshops, meetings, and activities. They also align with Alter-Places' mission to share the tacit knowledge and practices of ACPs, as well as the sustainability challenges they face. Additionally, the series aims to showcase innovative ACPs and their unique approaches to sustainability.

First, these videos will help you to better understand the topics of Alter-Places on which we work on each of our workshops, meetings and activities. But, as you know one of the main goals of Alter-Places is to share the tacit knowledge and practices of alternative cultural places, as well as the issues they face regarding sustainability. Also you will moreover discover some inspiring ACPs and specific sustainability-linked practices and issues they experiment.

Archiving sound, sustaining resistance: a conversation with Michelle Jahra McKinney, founder & director of Detroit Sound Conservancy, a nonprofit community-based music archive.

In this long episode and evocative interview, Michelle shares the story behind building a community-based archive to preserve Detroit’s sonic heritage. From early struggles to landmark achievements and the creation of the Legacy Council, she shows how archiving becomes a practice of sustainability, caring for culture while creating infrastructures for the future.

This film reminds us that archives are made not only of sound, but also of stories, flyers, posters, and everyday traces of artistic life. It is a powerful reflection on memory, resistance, and intergenerational transmission.

Interview: Natalia Bobadilla with support from Gaspard Bourgeois

Production & edit: Etienne Husson

Filmed in Tartu, Estonia, during Trans Europe Halles Arts of Survival Conference (May 2024).