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Calendar of Events
All events are free with museum admission unless otherwise indicated.
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NOVEMBER'S EXHIBITIONS
- November 5, 2008 Noontime Gallery Talk
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm MoAD Salon
- The Impact of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance in the African Diaspora
Learn how the "New Negro Movement," partially spawned by Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" ideology, flowered as the exuberant Harlem Renaissance. This cultural rejuvenation became a model for Black intellectual and cultural pride in Black diasporan communities worldwide.
Join us on Wednesdays for our noontime series of informative 30-minute Gallery Talks with Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, PhD. Get a behind-the-scenes look at influences on the works in our current exhibition, The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. No reservations are necessary. Bring your lunch. Or lunch on your own. You’ll still have time. Noontime Gallery Talks are made possible by generous support from the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. For additional information, call 415.318.7152.
Members FREE; General $12 (includes pass for later visit)
- November 7, 2008 POSTPONED! Conversations That Matter - Chef François Kwaku-Dongo
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6:30 pm – 7:00 pm MoAD Salon
 - Please join us for special events featuring Chef François Kwaku-Dongo.
As part of our Conversations That Matter series Chef François and Steven Wallace will discuss the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company which is the first company to establish sustained exports of gourmet branded chocolate manufactured entirely in Ghana. Omanhene produces value-added gourmet chocolate tailored specifically to export markets resulting in enhanced foreign exchange revenues for Ghana.
After the program join us for a chocolate tasting reception.
Chef François is currently Executive Chef at L'Escale restaurant in Greenwich, Connecticut. Chef François recently taped an episode as a challenger on Iron Chef America and was named by Forbes magazine as one of the top chefs in the U.S.
Steven Wallace founder Omanhene in 1991 convinced that is Ghana grows the finest cocoa in the world then Gahans should be able to produce the finest chocolate in the world.
Members FREE, General Admission $10
- November 8, 2008 POSTPONED! Chefs of the Diaspora Series - Chef François Kwaku-Dongo
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6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Reception - Vitrine Restaurant, St. Regis Hotel
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Dinner - Vitrine Restaurant, St. Regis Hotel
 - Reception and Dinner with Chef François Kwaku-Dongo
Private Reception and Dinner prepared by Chef François Kwaku-Dongo in conjunction with with St. Regis Executive Chef John Jackson. The Chefs will craft a one-of-a-kind menu for guests and explain each course, the particular ingredients used and the preparation involved in a "chef's table format."
More to details to come. Save the Date!
- November 9, 2008 Haitian and Nigerian Poetry and Music
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2:00 pm – 4:00 pm MoAD Salon
 - Haitian poet, Boadiba, will read from her latest book, “Under Burning White Sky,” and will also read her translations of Haitian poets with co-translator Jack Hirschman from the Haitian anthology “Open Gate.” Boadiba will read in both English and Haitian Creole. Agneta Falk, Swedish poet, will read her translations of Nigerian poet, Cletus Nelson Nwadike, who writes in Swedish, as well as read her own work. King Wawa, will accompany on percussion, and will also sing.
Admission: Members $10, General $15.
- November 12, 2008 Noontime Gallery Talks
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm MoAD Salon
- A Common Visual Language: African American Modernists & Mexican Muralists
Get the back story on how African American artists were drawn to the works of Mexican muralists. These muralists often focused on celebrating and educating the common citizen through visual images that exposed the history and cultures of native peoples oppressed and enslaved by colonial imperialism.
Join us on Wednesdays for our noontime series of informative 30-minute Gallery Talks with Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, PhD. Get a behind-the-scenes look at influences on the works in our current exhibition, The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. No reservations are necessary. Bring your lunch. Or lunch on your own. You’ll still have time. Noontime Gallery Talks are made possible by generous support from the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. For additional information, call 415.318.7152.
Members FREE; General $12 (includes pass for later visit)
- November 15, 2008 MoAD Family Day
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1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Education Center
 - Join us in Part II of our Family Day’s focusing on our latest exhibition, The Hewitt Collection. Visit our 3rd Floor Education Center to create your own original piece of artwork inspired by the printmaking techniques of artists featured in the exhibition and take a guided tour of the exhibition.
- November 16, 2008 With Head & Heart: The Life and Legacy of Howard Thurman
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2:30 pm – 5:00 pm MoAD Salon
 - Howard Thurman was a 20th century religious leader and thinker whose prophetic vision and quiet mentorship were instrumental to Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Thurman’s life and work reveal the powerful synergy between spirituality and social engagement, the inseparability of personal and social transformation. This post-election salon, timed to honor Thurman's birthday, will consider the relevance of his wisdom for contemporary struggles and the journey ahead.
2:30 - 3:00PM -- Reception with refreshments and showing of Arleigh Prelow's documentary short, "Howard Thurman: Spirit of a Movement."
3:00 - 5:00PM -- Lecture-discussion and excerpts from the video
interview, "Conversations with Howard Thurman."
Dr. Liza J. Rankow is an interfaith minister and the founding director of OneLife Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization.
General Admission $10
- November 19, 2008 Noontime Gallery Talks
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm MoAD Salon
- Artists Travel: Leaving the Familiar for Europe, Africa, and the Other America
African American artists, writers, musicians, and dancers moved to Paris, Haiti, and Mexico. Caribbean artists traveled to Paris and Britain, the United States and Mexico. Latin American artists ventured to the U.S. and Paris. Learn how these artists not only adapted European Modernism, but ultimately transformed it into their own ethnic and cultural realities.
Join us on Wednesdays for our noontime series of informative 30-minute Gallery Talks with Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, PhD. Get a behind-the-scenes look at influences on the works in our current exhibition, The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. No reservations are necessary. Bring your lunch. Or lunch on your own. You’ll still have time. Noontime Gallery Talks are made possible by generous support from the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. For additional information, call 415.318.7152.
Members FREE; General $12 (includes pass for later visit)
- November 22, 2008 Cabinet of Curiosities
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2:00 pm – 4:00 pm MoAD Salon
 - Peek inside the world of collecting. What people are collecting and why? Explore, question, and learn from contemporary collectors McKinley Williams, Melissa Leventon, and Freud Reia about their unique personal collections: mid-century dishware, 19th century shoes, and patent medicine from the 1830’s to present.
Free with museum admission.
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- November 23, 2008 Down Home Blues Jam
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2:00 pm – 4:00 pm MoAD Salon
 - FEATURING ALVON JOHNSON
Winner of the Guitar Player of the Year
Experience a rise in your heart rate!
Join us for an afternoon of live music, movement, and multimedia. Experience the rhythmic roots of the native art form THAT IS THE BLUES!
Members: $15 General: $20
Sponsored by the San Francisco Chapter of the Boulé
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- November 26, 2008 Noontime Gallery Talks
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm MoAD Salon
- Classical African Sculpture and Cubism
Learn how artists have found inspiration in classical African visual culture. Many have embraced and redefined specific emblems, art making processes, and perceptions from classical African art and belief systems in their works.
Join us on Wednesdays for our noontime series of informative 30-minute Gallery Talks with Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, PhD. Get a behind-the-scenes look at influences on the works in our current exhibition, The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. No reservations are necessary. Bring your lunch. Or lunch on your own. You’ll still have time. Noontime Gallery Talks are made possible by generous support from the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. For additional information, call 415.318.7152.
Members FREE; General $12 (includes pass for later visit)
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