Using curriculum based on the PBS documentary SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, learn best practices for using storytelling, including digitally-based, as an effective teaching tool in the classroom. SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME explores a system of “Neo-Slavery” that thrived following the Civil War based on the forced labor of imprisoned African American men and women through the convict lease program. The standards-based curriculum features an array of multimedia teaching tools, including rich oral histories. This event is co-sponsored by ITVS and Twin Cities Public Television.

To attend this FREE workshop, please register at http://classroomdigitalstorytelling.eventbrite.com/

For more information contact: estorer@moadsf.org

Please join documentary film director, Avishai Mekonen, in the screening of the trailer of the film he co-directed, 400 Miles to Freedom. Avishai will guide the audience through a talk focused on his personal experience of fleeing Ethiopia as a child during the civil war in Somalia and Eritrea. In a desperate attempt to reach Israel, Avishai and his family, along with thousands of other refugees had to stay in camps in Sudan, where there was a prevalence of child kidnapping and trafficking occurring as a byproduct of the civil war. Avishai will discuss the historical context of child trafficking and bring the audience up to date on the current state of child trafficking. Avishai’s story also illuminates the experience of refugees in Israel both historically and how Ethiopians are integrating into Israeli society today.

Yeganyahu Avishai Mekonen is a filmmaker who emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in 1984 as part of Operation Moses. He emigrated again in 2001, from Israel to New York City. He holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Tel Chai College of Haifa University/Hebrew University. His 2000 award-winning documentary, Video Flour, follows two Ethiopian Israeli stand-up comedians and their journey as they decide to produce a videotape of comic acts in Amharic, providing a critical glimpse of Ethiopian life in Israel.

Please note that this is not a full screening of the film 400 Miles to Freedom.

Co-presented by Be'chol Lashon.

Free with MoAD Admission.

This series is designed to bring different scholars to MoAD who will present on a variety of topics related to the African Diaspora. These events create a bridge of conversation between scholars and the community. All talks occur on Saturday mornings 10am -12pm in the Salon. Seating is limited.

Marcus Shelby presents Harriet Tubman and the Blues. The blues is a powerful form of language created by slaves (most notably Harriet Tubman) through the use of field hollers, blues cries, work songs, and spirituals. Marcus Anthony Shelby is an accomplished teacher, composer, arranger, and bassist for more than 20 years.  He is currently the Artistic Director and leader of The Marcus Shelby Orchestra, The Marcus Shelby Hot 7, and the The Marcus Shelby Trio. In 2009 he was awarded the Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship in Chicago to conduct research for his commission to compose “Soul of the Movement”.

Free with MoAD Admission.

The St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church provides a rhythm section and lead horns which Support the Voices of Compassion (choir), as together they seek to invoke the Spirit of God through Sound praise. The sound praise consists of the Coltrane Liturgy, which combines the Divine Liturgy Of the African Orthodox Church, and the Twenty-third Psalm, with the melodies, harmonies and Rhythms of Saint John Coltrane's masterpiece: A Love Supreme. The dedication of the Ministers of Sound extends far beyond Sunday morning worship and has made Global impact, drawing visitors to the church from all parts of the world. The Saint John Coltrane Church of San Francisco brings together a celebration of African American Classical Music with the divine, through the anointed sound of Saint John Will I Am Coltrane. Melody, harmony, and rhythm transformed into a blessed musical trinity through sound and praise.

Sacred Music, Sunday Fellowship is generously supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation

Free with MoAD Admission.

Please join us at the Museum of the African Diaspora for a FREE curriculum workshop for Bay Area K-12 teachers and educators. In this workshop we will use our “Slavery Passages” exhibit to examine first-person narratives of enslaved African men and women - spanning three continents and three centuries. This workshop is best suited for teachers of grades 9-12, but any educator is welcome to participate. If you would like to attend this or any other workshop, please RSVP to estorer@moadsf.org.

Museum of the African Diaspora Vanguard Presents: MoAD After Dark: The Diaspora Underground

BLACK INK: An Exploration of Black Animators and Cartoonists

6-7pm  Speech Balloon: The Panel  In conversation with Morrie Turner and Carlos Spivey, moderated by Andrew Farago. Join us as Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum goes behind the screen with Bay Area's own Morrie Turner, the first black nationally syndicated cartoon artist, animator and professor Carlos Spivey, and cartoonist, rapper and social activist Keith Knight.

7-9pm Sound Effects: the Reception Complimentary cocktails provided by ROOT, SNAP & RHUBY, a cartoon photo booth by Lightworks, live caricatures and special screenings.

Early bird -- $15 | General Admission -- $20 | Vanguard Members -- Free

Purchase tickets at www.blackink.eventbrite.com