homemoviesValley City  (CSi)For its second consecutive year, the Al Larvick Conservation Fund (ALCF), along with its community partners are bringing events back to three North Dakota cities. The State Historical Society of North Dakota, Barnes County Historical Society, and Cass County Historical Society will once again host, “Exploring Home Movies of North Dakota”.

ALCF Executive Director, Kirsten Larvick says, “The fund is changing the format a bit this year by offering an earlier separate time for a informal open house before the screenings take place. For screenings, we’ll show selections from the ALCF 2015 North Dakota Grantee, Al Larvick family film, and partner archive collections. We hope this variety of material will inspire a live dialogue between presenters and audiences.”

Home movie celebrations will be held in Bismarck on August 29th, at the North Dakota Heritage Center; Valley City, August 30 at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum; West Fargo, August 31st, at the Bonanzaville Cass County Historical Society. All event times are from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. for the open house, and from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. for the screenings.

Beginning at 6:00 p.m., visitors are welcome to stop by to view examples of various consumer film and video formats, and take a hand-out on caring and maintaining analog and digital home movie assets. Representatives will be on stand-by to answer any questions about their home movies, and assist with filling out the Al Larvick North Dakota Grant, which will open for submissions on August 29th, 2016.

The 7:00 p.m. screenings will include newly transferred films from decades past, which reflect various areas and communities of North Dakota. Presenters and speakers include Shane Molander, Deputy State Archivist, State Historical Society of North Dakota; Kirsten Larvick; Shari Huettl of The Memory Preserve (Bismarck event); Tamera Kapaun of TK Design (West Fargo event). 2015 ALCF grantees, Stephanie Kom and Carol Renner are invited to speak about their material as well.

The State Historical Society of North Dakota collects, digitizes and preserves home movies if they are believed to be of historic value. ALCF is inspired by Al Larvick, a man devoted to documenting everyday life activities. The fund’s mission is to preserve historical and cultural heritage through conversation, education, and public accessibility of American home and amateur recordings created prior to 1990.

ALCF’s North Dakota sponsor is The MediaPreserve. For more information about ALCF, visit allarvickfund.org. All Events are free and open to the public. To RSVP, please visit allarvickfund.eventbrite.com