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Syreeta Gates, keynote speaker, moderator and archivist: preserve like an archivist.
build like a founder.
My talks bring the archive to the stage with the receipts in hand: the magazines, the oral histories, the objects people forgot they kept. Audiences leave with a new relationship to what they hold onto.
Author of Just BE Cause: Ah Ha Moments to Inspire the Next Generation of Change Makers and the forthcoming Word Is Bond: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop Journalism (Roc Lit 101/Penguin Random House).
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recent stages
Rooms I've held lately.
ford foundation
columbia journalism school
the museum at fit
sxsw
what i talk about
Every talk can run as a keynote, a fireside or a workshop.
making memory tangible
How objects carry what words can't, and how I turned that into a studio building collectible artifacts out of LEGO bricks.
the archive is an inheritance
A decade of running The Gates Preserve: what to keep, who gets to keep it, and why preservation happens in the creation.
hip-hop journalism is american journalism
How young writers and editors built a parallel press over five decades, and what The Source, XXL, VIBE and countless other publications reveal about American media. Pulled from my upcoming book, Word Is Bond: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop Journalism.
the magazine as primary source
Every issue is a time capsule with a byline. How to read magazines as evidence, care for a collection, and turn students into archivists.
in conversation
I hold the room so your speakers can go deep. Panels, firesides and talkbacks that feel like the best conversation anyone had all year.
formats
seen on
in the room
Hosting, keynoting and holding the panel together. Press play on any of them.
introducing randall & syreeta
flyboy unbound
host reel
celebrating greg tate
you can’t remix the sauce
archiving hip-hop
strategies for idea generation
careers in music: live entertainment
bring the archive into the room.
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