Radstorm History Scan-a-thon with Halifax Municipal Archives

Radstorm and Halifax Municipal Archives invite you to help us preserve our unique history as one of Halifax’s oldest and raddest DIY art spaces. If you have old photographs of Radstorm or posters, fliers, or other materials from events at Radstorm, Roberts Street, or its many projects and previous incarnations, bring them to this drop-in Scan-a-thon on October 6 from 1:00-4:00 pm at 2177 Gottingen. Archivists will record everything you know about the images and materials, then carefully scan them so you and future researchers will have a digital copy to share.

We want to remember, celebrate, and preserve all of the amazing things that have happened in our spaces and the relationships and communities we’ve created by hosting this Scan-a-thon and documenting our history in partnership with the Halifax Municipal Archives. All items scanned will become available in the Archives’ online database for the community and researchers to access. Contributors can either donate the original item and keep a digital copy, or can donate the digital copy to the Archives and take the original back home with them. We will also provide some advice and supplies to help best preserve records at home.

Radstorm is a dynamic volunteer-run space in the north end made up of numerous projects, including the Anchor Archive Zine Library, Ink Storm Screen Printing Collective, and Sad Rad Music Collective. The Anchor Archive originally opened in 2005 and a couple years later joined with Ink Storm to form the Roberts Street Social Centre, which hosted many events, a residency, a speakeasy and other projects during its 9 years on Roberts Street. After a few moves, Anchor Archive and Ink Storm joined Sad Rad to become Radstorm and arrive at their current home on Gottingen Street, where they offer an all-ages show space, a jam space, a recording studio, food servings, workshops, a pottery kiln, a zine library, and a screen printing studio.