Public Programs Calendar

Honor and celebrate our distinctive paths and shared histories through an interactive experience. Featuring 2-3 new films each week exploring different regions of Africa. Contribute your own story to the collection of diaspora stories through the I've Known Rivers project. Crafts and story books enhance the experience for our younger audiences and provide multi-generational activities the entire family can enjoy.

This summer MoAD invites you to Engage Your Heritage!

Woubi Cheri

Synopsis: Examines the social stigma and internal logic surrounding LGBT community in Ivory Coast.

Witches In Exile

Synopsis: A look at “witches’ camps” in rural Ghana and the reaction to this institution from within and without the camps.

Si-Gueriki (The Queen Mother)

Synopsis: A son of the Benin royal family, living abroad in Europe returns home with the intention of filming his father’s biography, but instead turns his film’s attention toward his mother.

Show times for the main screen are 11:45 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm

AFRO@DIGITAL

Synopsis: Examines the impact of cell phones and the internet on the rate of development throughout Africa.

This is Nollywood

Synopsis: This documentary looks at the burgeoning film industry in Lagos, Nigeria.

Zan Boko

Synopsis: Chronicles the transition from an agrarian to an urbanized lifestyle and from the oral tradition to commoditization.

Show times for the main screen are 11:45 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm

Summer in the City: Meet MoAD, is a one-of-a-kind music and dance series designed to support the MoAD mission to connect “all people through the celebration and exploration of the art, culture and history of the African Diaspora.” Five musical evenings will welcome to the museum neighbors and community members from the greater Bay Area.

Cuban music and dance is the emphasis for this program of Thursday evening 6-8 pm salons, during which visitors can take dance lessons, enjoy live music, and celebrate summer. The Fito Reinoso Band is featured July 23, young Dos 4 y Los Mios on July 30, Bay Area beloved salsa band Rumbaché performs August 13, and internationally known Jesús Díaz and Yosvany Terry close the program August 27 and September 10 respectively.

This five-part series gathers some of the world’s best performing groups, which embody the four themes of MoAD: origins, movement, adaptation, and transformation.

$10 Donation

AFRO@DIGITAL

Synopsis: Examines the impact of cell phones and the internet on the rate of development throughout Africa.

This is Nollywood

Synopsis: This documentary looks at the burgeoning film industry in Lagos, Nigeria.

Zan Boko

Synopsis: Chronicles the transition from an agrarian to an urbanized lifestyle and from the oral tradition to commoditization.

Show times for the main screen are 11:45 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm

Join MoAD, along with 9 other Yerba Buena Area Museums, as we hold our second annual joint Teachers' Open House!

Our Education Staff will present you with information on our Group Tours and Educational Resources. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate a visit to the Museum in your existing classroom curriculum.

MoAD will be open from 3:30 - 6:30 admission FREE.

Light refreshments and resources will be provided.

Grounding the Past

Following the thread of Congolese Dance & Music

September 17, 2009 ::: 6pm-8pm

MoAD ::: 3rd Floor

Reinforcing the bonds between the individual and her village, Latanya D. Tigner, Maïmouna Coulibaly, and Muisi-kongo Malonga present 3 different works

in honor of the influences and traditions of Central Africa.

Finding strength and inspiration in the multi-layered stories of a branch of the Congolese family tree, Latanya D. Tigner combines contemporary technique with traditional Congolese movement to explore what it means to find oneself facing great loss.

Accompanied by acapella vocals from Muisi-kongo Malonga, "Untitled" moves from solitude to community, isolation to strength, a reminder of our ability to move forward.

Muisi-kongo S. Malonga is "the village" personified.

As the Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of Fua Dia Congo, Muisi-kongo Malonga ensures that the traditions taught to her from birth remain vibrantly alive.

Dissolving the boundary between audience and performer, Muisi-kongo, in partnership with her brother Kiazi Malonga, encourage the audience to get up and go deeper into the Zebola (ritual/healing) and Air Pionnier (ritual/social) rhythms.

Maïmouna Coulibaly is a dance/theater artist with both feet on the pulse of the urban French-African Diaspora.

Mixing up traditional styles with new moves from the dance floors of Paris, Maïmouna leads us through Soukous all the way to Coupé-Décalé.

DJ Chief Boima collaborates with Maïmouna to keeps things moving as he brings the sounds of Little Baobab's "Paris Dakar International".

An Uncivil War

Synopsis: Multi-perspective look at the Liberian Civil War, critique of US non-involvement

Liberia: A Fragile Peace

Synopsis: Chronicle of Liberia in its post-war rehabilitation era

Eventual Salvation

Synopsis: American filmmaker Dee Rees chronicles her American-born grandmother’s life in Liberia, where she moved in 1958 from Oakland, California.

Show times for the main screen are 11:45 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm