Save Harlem Now! is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and celebrating Harlem’s irreplaceable heritage. Save Harlem Now! advocates for the designation of individual landmarks and historic districts in Harlem, for contextual zoning in Harlem, and educates the public about Harlem’s built heritage, history, and culture.
Interviews & events led by Harlem Cultural Archives, an historical society that aims to create, maintain and grow a remotely accessible, online, interactive repository of audio-visual materials documenting Harlem’s remarkable and varied multicultural legacies, including its storied past as well as its continuing contributions to the City and State of New York, the nation, and the world. [harlemcultural.org]
This interview series highlights the labor of place-based cultural preservation and the experiences that have brought the people behind that work to where they are. All interviews are conducted by Place, Memory & Culture Incubator staff, faculty, and students.
On November 15, 2025, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Incubator (CCCADI) and the Place, Memory & Culture Incubator (PMCI) presented a special edition of CCCADI's ongoing Sou Sou! Saturdays programming, in collaboration with The Feminist Institute, Harlem Cultural Archives, Save Harlem Now!, Maysles Documentary Center, and XFR Collective. The event included two workshops (Poster-Making Artivism Workshop led by artist and CCCADI alum Crystal Clarity and Archiving 101 led by PMCI's Lester Li and jah elyse sayers) and an all-day community digitization lab, during which members of the public digitized their personal archival materials with support from technicians (courtesy of CCCADI, The Feminist Institute, Maysles Documentary Center, PMCI, Save Harlem Now!, and XFR Collective).
About the Sou Sou! Saturdays series:
Inspired by the financial resource-sharing traditions known throughout the African Diaspora by such names as "Colecta", "Box Hand", "San", "Partna", or "Sou-Sou", this family-based art and education program reinterprets Sou Sou as an exchange of cultural resources. Sou Sou! Saturdays celebrates and honors our connections by upholding our traditions of collective growth, mindfulness, celebration, and creativity with families of all ages.
