In November 2005 Future Histories was approached by Nadia Stern, interim executive director of Talawa Theatre Company, to explore the possibility of including Talawa's archive in future project activities to counteract the potential risk of dispersal in light of the company's restructuring.
On 19 October 2005, Dr Terracciano presented the company's achievements at the Carnival Conference On Route, with a session on in-house archiving and preservation of Carnival material for all conference attendees delivered with Guy Baxter, V&A Theatre Museum archivist.
On 16 March 2005, Future Histories presented Life in Performance, a live art installation at The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, to mark the launch of the Re-membering Asian Performance project. The event was curated by Dr Terracciano in collaboration with Ali Zaidi, and included presentations by Felix Cross and Nitin Sawhney.
Between February and March 2005, Future Histories delivers 5 workshops on in-house preservation and the organisation of archives to black and Asian performing arts companies at City Hall in London, Kuumba Arts and Community Centre in Bristol, Metropolitan University in Leeds, Contact Theatre in Manchester, and the MAC in Birmingham.
In July 2004 Future Histories launched the Living Archive programme with play-readings at the Brixton Arts Gallery, featuring extracts from the collection of produced and unproduced plays from the archives.
On 1 June 2004 Future Histories was awarded a new grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund to deliver the Re-membering Asian Performance project, devised by Dr Terracciano to preserve and catalogue the motiroti archive. Further funding from Arts Council England was granted to deliver a series of workshops on the art of archiving.
In March-April 2004, Future Histories produced the exhibition Staging the Journey at MoDA (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture) as part of Re-membering Black Performance project. The exhibition was based on the theatrical writings and productions of Edgar Nkosi White.
With the support of a pro bono legal team, Future Histories devised a pioneering loan system to allow Black producers to retain control of the archives deposited with Future Histories, and contribute to the interpretation and dissemination of African and Asian cultural heritage in Britain.
As part of Future Histories' active collection policy, Terracciano engaged in a series of conversations with Ali Zaidi and Keith Khan, artistic directors of the British Asian arts company motiroti, to preserve the company's archive. An agreement was reached to collaborate on the next Future Histories archive project.
In 2003 Terracciano and McConnell took part in a series of consultation events carried out by the London Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage, as part of an inquiry into the needs of black and Asian cultural organisations and the best way to promote this heritage sector in mainstream institutions.
On 30 November the A2A Central Team at the Public Record Office in Kew held a special event called "A2A Uncovered" to present the A2A database, together with a number of forthcoming projects including the Future Histories' one.
On 25 November 2002, Future Histories was awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to deliver the Re-membering Black Performance pioneering project in collaboration with The National Archives, to publish for the Black Theatre Forum and Nitro theatre catalogues on the A2A (Access to Archives) website.
