[Report] Invitation to faculty members of St. Anthony's College Audio-Visual Archive, Northeast India, for Capacity Building in Japan

As part of "Preserving and Sharing Histories and Memories of Northeast India and Asia," our Foundation invited five participants from Northeast India AV Archive (NEIAV), located on the campus of St. Anthony's College in the state of Meghalaya, Northeast India, to Japan from February 14 to 22, 2024. Training and study visits were made to related institutions in Fukuoka, Nagasaki, and Tokyo, to improve NEIAV's organizational management and technical capabilities, and to expand its professional knowledge and human network.
 
NEIAV was established in 2019 as part of the Department of Mass Media at St. Anthony's College. It works to document ethnic and community stories that are orally transmitted in Northeast India, and to pass them on to the next generation in the form of archival material, and to expand them to other regions beyond the borders of the country. 

In Fukuoka, with the full support of the Fukuoka City Public Library, a large library with a video room and mini-theater, NEIAV participants toured the library and received training on three types of archives: documents, video, and photographs. The participants also visited the School of Design, the Media Design Course at Kyushu University, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. While learning about the management and preservation methods of archival materials, they absorbed a lot of skills to see the handling of materials and the advanced technical skills of Japanese experts.