Are You Smarter Than an Archivist?
This is the act of preparing archival materials for use
What is processing?
This popular circus act, also known as funambulism, requires focus and balance.
What is Tightrope Walking?
Minimal processing to arrange and describe archival series and collections to reduce or avoid backlogs
What is MPLP?
“Circus of the Sun” translates to this street performance-born group’s name.
Who is Cirque du Soleil?
Remediation of practices or data that exclude, silence, harm, or mischaracterize marginalized people in the data created or used by archivists to identify or characterize archival resources
What is reparative description?
The Black-owned and operated "UniverSoul Circus" premiered in this popular southern city in 1994.
What is Atlanta?
A concept, proposed by Kimberly Christen and Jane Anderson, that advocates for a more relational, community-focused, and ethical approach to archival practices, prioritizing relationships with communities of origin over speed and efficiency
What are slow archives?
The ____ Brothers were a set of African American Albino Twins kidnapped from their tobacco farm home in 1899 and forced to work in circuses as sideshows.
Who are the "Muse Brothers"?
A gap in the historical record resulting from the unintentional or purposeful absence or distortion of documentation
What is archival silence?
This stage name was given to Charles Stratton, a little person and one of P.T. Barnum’s most notable performers.
Who is General Tom Thumb?