Description: Worried about losing precious text messages or voicemail from your loved ones? Concerned about privacy, digital security, and surveillance? Or maybe you’ve already lost things to the digital ether?‍

Join Postal Service for the Dead for a workshop that combines conversations of death and technology, where we will save digital files by building a system of backups and alternatives to get your precious text messages and voicemail into your personal archive.

Taught by archivists Sydney Kysar & Isabella León-Chambers, the workshop will cover the following skills and tools:

• Discuss death and grief through the digital ephemera created by loved ones

• Identify ideal hardware and storage devices for preservation

• Identify the most common digital preservation risks

The Workshop’s hands-on portion will be a step-by-step walkthrough of how to download data off of your phone and computer.

• Introduction to command line tools

• Script to download text messages as dynamic html

• How to download and convert voice messages & voicemails

• Convert proprietary files format to open source or non-proprietary files‍

**This workshop is focused on MAC OS / Apple products. If you have a PC or no computer, you might not get the full experience, but please still join! We would love to have you.

Where: Altadena Library, 600 E Mariposa St, Altadena, CA 91001

When: Saturday, November 8th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Register: Please register on the Altadena Library’s website.

Cost: Free

Who: Recommended for teens and adults.

Materials: Please bring your computer, iPhone, and, if possible, a hard drive.