Public Programs Calendar

South America and el Caribe

$20 per session, or $240 Series* ($16 a class)

Join us for Member's Preview of The Art of Richard Mayhew.

Drinks, Eats and Music featuring the Oaktown Jazz Ensemble.

For more information call 415-358-7215.

see. think. dance. + MoAD revive the artist salon to turn up the lights on DANCE.

Local choreographers Jacinta Vlach, Raissa Simpson, and Sheena Johnson present solo work with LIVE accompaniment from their favorite musicians.

The evening wraps up with a discussion + reception to facilitate DIRECT artist/audience exchange.

Each salon in this series highlights a different facet of movement within the AFRICAN aesthetic. Dancers embody the GENERATIONS through Congolese + Coupé Décalé, Gospel + Jazz, Hip-Hop + Kwaito. Inspired by the MUSIC, each dancer exemplifies the body as instrument, inviting the audience on a journey.

Admission $10

The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America

Author Clarence Walker in conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Francis

Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. The Preacher and the Politician argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago. The authors Walker and Smithers take us back to the Democratic primary season of 2008, viewing the controversy surrounding Wright in the context of key religious, political, and racial dynamics in American history and situate Wright's preaching in African American religious traditions dating back to the eighteenth century, but they also place his sermons in a broader prophetic strain of Protestantism that transcends racial categories.

Free with Museum Admission.

Target Family Day is downtown San Francisco's biggest day-long family block party with FREE admission to four leading museums, special art activities for kids and free performances on three stages.

Participating organizations include the Museum of the African Diaspora, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Here at Museum of the African Diaspora activities that day include:

~Tours of our exhibition: The Art of Richard Mayhew

~Screenprinting landscape art projects

~Dance Performances by Jetta Martin and Company

~Jazz improv workshops by the Terrence Brewer Trio

~Performance and jam session with Oaktown Jazz Ensemble

For more information about the event,

visit www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com or call 415-614-3216.

People in the African diaspora have been figured in museum displays throughout modern history: these representations have ranged from the classificatory anthropological exhibitions of nineteenth century Europe to colorful works of contemporary black art in New York’s Chelsea galleries. Ultimately, the display of African descendents globally has had enormous potential to define those populations for a larger public. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and scholarship, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) will host a one-day symposium on October 23, 2009 investigating how museums both represent and shape our understanding of the African diaspora. The symposium will feature both a panel of emerging scholars as well as a roundtable including local artists and curators.

All are welcome! Free with Admission.