The West Kootenay Women’s Association’s Digital History Project is excited to announce the launch of the audio and video components of its digital archive, in time for International Women’s Day celebrations.This project is funded in part through the BC150 Heritage Legacy Fund, the Kootenay Columbia Cultural Alliance and the BC History Digitization Program, an initiative from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC.
www.KootenayFeminism.com is an award-winning, publicly accessible digital archive of the history of feminism in B.C.‘s West Kootenays. It documents 40 years of women’s festivals, conferences and forums. As of March 7, audio and video recordings documenting this rich and important history will also be available on the website.