Gil Pasternak: Appointed Adviser for the Apna Heritage Archive

Gil Pasternak has been appointed Adviser for the Apna Heritage Archive project initiated and managed by the Black Country Visual Arts (BCVA) organisation. The Apna Heritage Archive hosts a collection of over 2,000 historic photographs and memorabilia relating to Punjabi migration to Wolverhampton from 1960 to 1989. Pasternak will provide the BCVA a series of consultations and training workshops on a range of topics related to digitisation methods and accessibility to community and scholars alike. In addition, he will contribute to community and academic engagement activities related to the Archive’s sociocultural underpinning and assist the BCVA in initiating further projects for its research and subsequent historical elaboration.