September 27th, 2014
Conversations on Self-Determination – Black Radical Brooklyn: Past, Present, and Future
Black Radical Brooklyn: Past, Present, and Future
Saturday, September 27
3:30 – 5:30pm
Hear how four artworks came to life. Listen as artists and community partners reflect on two years of making art that explores local sites of self-determination, yesterday and today.
Moderators: Rashida Bumbray, Independent Curator; Rylee Eterginoso, Curator, Weeksville Heritage Center; Nato Thompson, Chief Curator, Creative Time
Speakers: Xenobia Bailey, Artist, Century 21: Bed-Stuy Rhapsody in Design: A Reconstruction Urban Remix in the Aesthetic of Funk; Dwight Brewster, Digital Media Officer at Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium; Jamal Cyrus, Artist, OJBK FM; Ron Johnson, Historian at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; Stanley Kinard, Community Coordinator & Director of Care Center at Boys & Girls High School; Simone Leigh, Artist, Free People’s Medical Clinic; Clarence Mosley, Chairman at Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium; DeeArah Wright, on behalf of the English Family of Stuyvesant Mansion; Curator Rashida Bumbray on behalf of Bradford Young, Artist, Bynum Cutler.
Presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Join us every Saturday at Weeksville Heritage Center (158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) for a free series of Conversations on Self-Determination, presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gather on the lawn for afternoon discussions on main exhibition themes Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine. Free and open to the public.
Find out more about the project and list of Events and Workshops.