A crazy lineup, indeed, this coming Saturday night at the Brooklyn Museum. We already mentioned the Book Talk, but that’s just one piece of a great evening of programming. If you were unclear about the creators who exemplified the #NewBlackImagination (see the slide deck here), this is a pretty cool, representative sample.
First, let’s connect the dots above:
So, Saturday’s schedule looks like this:
Curator Talk
6 p.m.
Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, discusses themes in the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey.
Film
6 p.m.
Dreams Are Colder Than Death (Arthur Jafa [7] and Khalil Joseph [6], 2013, 52 min.) A film exploring what it means to be black in twenty-first-century America.
Music
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Pegasus Warning [5] merges otherworldly sounds with electronic music and unique soulful beats.
Hands-On Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Create an experimental two-part collage inspired by Mutu’s work.
Artist Talk
7 p.m.
Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili [3] talks about the materials and process behind her intricately patterned art.
Spoken Word
8–9 p.m.
Musician, poet, writer, and actor Saul Williams [2] blurs the line between poetry and hip-hop.
Book Club
8:30 p.m.
Presented by Bold As Love magazine, authors Kiini Ibura Salaam and Bridgett M. Davis read from new work. Tayari Jones [4] leads a discussion about how their writing relates to Mutu’s art.
Music
8:30–10 p.m.
REBELLUM’s [1] hybrid sound borrows from funk, jazz, reggae, heavy metal, classical, and more.
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