To celebrate UNESCO World Audio-visual Archive Heritage day 2014 the CCAAA relaunched the Archives@Risk website "A New Declaration” Safeguarding and Celebrating World Audiovisual Archives

Two upcoming ARSC workshops: “From Idea to Deliverable: Planning and Executing Your Grant-Funded Project”; “All Hands on Deck!” Audiotape Playback Workshop. Workshop registration is not included in the conference registration fee. The deadline for discounted, early in-person workshop registration is May 6.

SEAPAVAA invites submission of contributions from members and interested participants by 16 January 2015 for its 19th annula conference, 22– 28 April, 2015, Singapore.

The 49th annual ARSC Conference will be held May 27-30, 2015 at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference is hosted by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

The JTS 2016 Program Committee is seeking papers that discuss or demonstrate fresh innovative approaches to: conservation treatment of audiovisual objects; restoration of audiovisual objects and/or content; access to the information held within objects and collections, including metadata and intellectual property; the long term survival of audiovisual collections, as individual objects and/or digital files

The ARSC Preservation Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the Grant for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings. The program for this grant was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer and the ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the preservation of historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music by individuals and organizations.

 20TH SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE, 6-11 June 2016, Guam. “Intellectual Property, Rights, and Audiovisual Archives: Reframing Boundaries and Possibilities”

We are accepting proposals for papers, panels, posters, workshops and tutorials for the 47th Annual IASA Conference hosted by and held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA — 24 through 29 September 2016. Deadline for submissions: 18 March, 2016. A World of Opportunity: Audiovisual Archives and the Digital Landscape

The 2016 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place in Warsaw, hosted by the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland; NInA, from October 12 to October 15.

A new version of the FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual (2016), published by the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC), can be downloaded for free in PDF format from 20 September 2016.

FOCAL is now accepting entries for the 2017 FOCAL International Awards, the most prestigious and complete set of awards for the global footage community. The 14th annual FOCAL International Awards will be held on 25th May 2017 at a sparkling ceremony in London, UK. Deadline for submissions is 1st December 2016.

Announcement of the 2017 SEAPAVAA Conference and information about the Call for Paper.

A report on the 14th Image and Research Conference, which took place in Girona from 16-18 November 2016.

Announcement about the 2017 IASA Conference and information about the Call for Papers

Audio-Visual Archival Training Summit at the Cinémathèque française

2017 CCAAA Board Meeting

2018 CCAAA Board Meeting

The 15th I&R Conference will take place from 21 to 24 November 2018 in Girona, Catalunya. The program is now available.

Martin Scorsese on the 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Registration open!

Travel Grants available

2019 FIAT-IFTA World Conference

^{Registrations open!}

2020 ARSC Virtual Conference

2020 ICA Congress in Abu Dhabi postponed

The 2020 FIAF Congress has been cancelled

"Turning the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity for greater support to documentary heritage" - A UNESCO Statement

2021 ARSC Conference

FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grant 2022: Call for Projects

26-29 September, Mexico City

ARSC's 56th annual Conference

17-21 May 2022

FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2022

4-6 October, Cape Town

ARSC's 57th annual Conference

17-20 May 2023

FIAT-IFTA Survey on the Use of AI in Audiovisual Archives

Deadline: 19 May 2023

AMIA 2023

ARSC's 58th Annual Conference

May 15-18, 2024

2024 FIAF Congress

Bangkok, 21-26 April 2024

Registrations open

Call for Submissions open until 1 April 2024

Call for Papers open until 31 March 2024

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