Saturday, November 8, 2025, 10am – 12pm PST
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.
Registration required.
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
Please bring your computer, iPhone, and, if possible, a hard drive.
About the presenters Postal Service for the Dead is an ongoing, collective project where people send letters to anyone in their life who has died. Birthdays, death days, anniversaries, holidays, or seemingly random days can all spark grief. Writing letters to those who have died has always been a powerful tool, but we felt something was missing – the physicality of stamping and mailing it out. So, we invite you to write a letter that helps your healing journey. Not all grief looks the same and neither will the letters. You can submit a letter of gratitude for how they impacted your life or a list of grievances that you still hold towards them – use this space to say whatever. Inspired by PostSecret, we started this project to help folks heal through writing, the power of snail mail, and shared grief experiences. https://www.postalserviceforthedead.com/