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Via #AskArchivistsLet’s celebrate June 9International Archives Day 2016 #IAD16 is coming up! Like every year Follow An Archive and Ask Archivists organize a celebration event on Twitter.With the celebration event we join the June 9 theme ‘Archives, Harmony and Friendship‘ of the International Council on Archives (ICA).The theme of the annual Twitter event will be #archivesrock. It’s about music in archives.Archives rockMusic makes a perfect match with the ICA theme ‘Archives, Harmony and Friendship’!Remember the song ‘Ebony and Ivory’, a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder?“Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony | Side by side on my piano…”.It contains music and lyrics worth to keep in an archive, performed by two friends singing and playing together in perfect harmony!So let archives rock on June 9, International Archives Day, and contribute to Friendship and Harmony!How can you let archives rock? Music performances and/or instruments on photographs, engravings, paintings, etc. Music scores and/or sheet music Books about music Soundtracks, video, film, etc. List of archives and collections about music Portraits of composers and musicians Records, which that tell about composers, musicians and “musical” institutionsThe sound of archives Make any kind of noise in an archive depot Rustle with paper Close the heavy door of the archive depot Turn the wheels of the shelves Put an archival document in/out an archives box Type an inventory list Record the silence of the reading roomBe a musician yourself and/or with others Sing and/or play music in harmony with your colleagues and/or visitors Invite children/adults to sing with you in the archive Organize a musical event, tape it and put it on Twitter ….or do a flashmob?Music in archives, sounds in archives, it’s all possible to make #archivesrock on June 9!Your contribution, your choiceAnd finally – your contribution could naturally also be musical documents of huge importance and great archival beauty.It is your choice, and we look forward to your contribution.Join International Archives Day on Twitter!We hope lots of archives, archivists and all people who love archives will join.Let us show together how music can make the world a harmonious place to live together in friendship and how archives play a vital part in documenting the history of music.Other platformsTwitter is the main platform for the event, but you can do #archivesrock on most other platforms too. Show of your sheetmusic on Instagram, take the opportunity to test the new Facebook Live video featuring archival sound, write a blogpost… but be sure to to tweet about it#IAD16 and #archivesrockIf you wish to join, make a comment below stating your Twitter handle as “reply” to this post. And on June 9th. post your content to relevant platforms – blogs, flickr, instagram, your website, etc. – and tweet about it using the combination of two tags: #IAD16 #archivesrock.OrganizationThis Twitter event #IAD16 #archivesrock is organized by Follow An Archive and Ask Archivists, managed by Charlotte S H Jensen (Denmark) and Anneke van Waarden-Koets (The Netherlands).The idea for the theme ‘the sound of archives’ came from the German archivist Thomas Wolf. We added music, mixed it with the sound of archives, and here it is, especially for al our archives friends: a harmonious theme to celebrate International Archives Day: #archivesrock!Charlotte and Anneke