Sweet and Dandy is an 8-week film series featuring an entertaining mix of documentaries, shorts and narratives complementing both exhibitions on view at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Grace Jones Project and Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. The films explore how fashion, music and performance are expressions of resistance and pleasure, defying confining interpretations of race and masculinity/femininity in global Black communities.

THE SWENKAS (74 minutes, 2004, Jeppe Ronde. In English and Zulu with English subtitles). In post-Apartheid South Africa every Saturday night, a small group of working class Zulu men leave their grimy overalls behind and wear their best Carducci or Pierre Cardin suits in a judged competition. The men are called the Swenkas (taken from the English “swank”), and they have run this fashion show for so many years that no one remembers exactly when - or even why - it all began.

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