CUSTODIAL HISTORY

Blue

1997 – Written by Stanton Kewley and Wendell Manwarren
Produced, Arranged, & Engineered by Graham Wilson.
Recorded at G.W. Music Production.

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The 3canal collection begun at 64A Carlos Street, Woodbrook, and in 1997 it moved to the Rituals Music office at 5 Longden Street, Kew Place. In 2003 it then moved to 6 Hunter Street, and in 2004 to 67A Ariapita Ave, Woodbrook. In 2014 the Big Black Box became its new home. The collection has moved to 4 locations over its 30 years.
In 2025 the collection was accessioned, catalogued, conserved, and archived by guest archivist, Dr Kwynn Johnson, courtesy a CDSC micro-grant from Yale University. This intervention of the archival process shows the curatorial choices made by Johnson. They are expressed in the Catalogues, the archive, and this digital repository. Johnson builds on her first curatorial work with the collection in 2007.
The 3canal collection is neither part of a UNESCO registry, nor an academic or state institution.

It is a privately owned Community Archive and one of the many collections of Primary-data which require urgent attention

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3canal UNESCO registry

The 3canal collection is neither part of a UNESCO registry, nor an academic or state institution. It is a privately owned Community Archive and one of the many collections of Primary-data sources which require urgent attention. In November 2024, the UNESCO’s Regional Communication and Information Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosa M. González stated:

“In Latin America and the Caribbean, management and organizational risks are considered to be the highest, a category of risks that includes insufficient resources. “According to the Memory of the World Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean, 22% of the documents that are part of the regional Memory of the World register face management and organizational risks”.

“However, despite the existing challenges and risks for documentary heritage, 30% of custodian institutions still do not have a management plan for the comprehensive conservation of their documentary heritage … As for digitalization and access to heritage, 35% of the regional registry is fully digitalized and only 25% of the digitalized heritage is fully accessible on the web”, the Regional Advisor added”.

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Our Journey

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