Lift Every Voice (LEV)
Oslo, Norway
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Founded in 2020, Lift Every Voice (LEV) is a community organisation based in Oslo, Norway working on heritage, human rights.
Lift Every Voice (LEV) is a social documentation project based in Oslo, Norway, that collects protest posters, photographs and oral histories from the 5 June 2020 anti-racism demonstrations (We Can't Breathe. Justice for George Floyd). It aims to preserve community narratives about civil rights, racism and social justice, and to make them available through archives, exhibitions and public engagement. The project was launched by social anthropologist Michelle A. Tisdel and works with the Oral history method of Memoar and with cultural institutions including Kunsthall Trondheim and the Oslo Museum. LEV also offers support to archives, museums and libraries seeking inclusive collection practices.
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Collecting protest posters
Heritage · Norway
Collects, preserves and documents protest posters from the anti-racism demonstrations of 5 June 2020 in Oslo and other Norwegian cities as social documentation and ethnographic objects.
Oral history for anti-racism (Muntlig historie)
Heritage · Norway
Records oral history interviews on anti-racism and the 5 June 2020 demonstration, developed with Memoar, with material archived at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Your breath, your voice (Din pust, din stemme)
Arts & Culture · Norway
Exhibition project presenting protest posters, photographs, oral history and video from the 2020 anti-racism demonstrations, shown at Kunsthall Trondheim and Oslo City Museum.
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African Student Association, Afrikans Rising in Solidarity and Empowerment (ARISE), Kunsthall Trondheim, The Oslo Desk, Memoar, Oslo Museum, Norsk Folkemuseum, Fritt Ord
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