MoAD Events and Exhibitions

Event: June 12, 2013: 1st Annual MoAD Golf Invitational

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The 1st Annual MoAD Golf Invitational is a benefit for MoAD's Program Fund. The event will take place at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. The four-person scramble tournament will kick-off at 11am. The tournament competition concludes with a traditional cocktail reception and short awards program beginning at 5pm. A silent auction adjacent to the evening’s hosted bar and barbeque meal is open to participants and other invited guests.

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For sponsorship information: Leslie Lombre, Director of Development (415) 358-7219 Email: llombre@moadsf.org

11:00 am - 7:00 pm:

Event: June 15, 2013: TELL ME MORE | Scholarly Voices from the African Diaspora

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The Scholarly Voices series brings locally, nationally, and internationally recognized scholars to present on a variety of topics related to the African Diaspora. These events create a bridge of conversation between the academic world and the local community. All talks occur on Saturday mornings 10am-12pm in the Salon. Seating is limited.

Please join us for an interactive conversation with Dr. Shakti Butler on Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. Dr. Butler will share an understanding of racial disparities in the United States by illuminating the relationship between internal bias and the structural forces that perpetuate inequitable outcomes in this country. She is the director of the film “Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity,” and the Founder and Creative Director of World Trust Educational Services, a nonprofit that uses film and dialogue as a catalyst for justice and community building.

Free with MoAD Admission

10:00 am - 12:00 am:

Event: June 20, 2013: 3rd on Third Arts Celebration

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Come to 3rd on Third to learn more about MoAD's I've Known Rivers Oral History Project.

3rd on Third partner, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) will bring its newest volume in the I’ve Known Rivers (IKR): The MoAD Stories Project, the Bayview Hunters Point Oral History Project to Auntie April's at 4618 3rd Street.

On Thursday, June 20, the Bayview will come alive with a community-wide arts celebration. 3rd on Third, a reference to the third Thursday of the month and the event location, Third Street, will feature a myriad of activities for the whole family. The event will include an unveiling of 6 new StreetSmARTS murals by local artists, pop up galleries, outdoor performances, a special children’s zone with free art-making activities and food vendors. The fun kicks off at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. Through creative partnerships with neighborhood-based organizations, 3rd on Third shines a spotlight on the Bayview’s cultural offerings and helps identify the Third Street Corridor as a lively destination for great food and art. 3rd on Third is presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission with funding support from San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which recently announced a two-year commitment to bring a robust suite of arts investment activities to the Bayview neighborhood. Other partners include the Bayview Merchants Association, and the Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre, Infin8Sync and other community-based artists. For information about 3rd on Third please contact Tyra Fennell at tyra.fennell@sfgov.org.

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm:

Exhibition: June 20, 2013 - September 29, 2013: Gordon Parks: Photographs at his Centennial

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Acclaimed photographer, writer, filmmaker, and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) fought poverty and racism with his camera. As Life magazine’s first African American staff photographer, Parks developed into one of America’s finest photojournalists. Parks’s photo-essays for the magazine covered subjects ranging from Paris fashion shows, to the Black Panthers, to slum-dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. A documentarian and resolute advocate for the civil rights movement, Parks’s photographs bore witness to the collective efforts of Black public figures, politicians, and ordinary Americans for civil rights. Like J.D. Ojerikere in Nigeria, Parks portrayed an America struggling with rapid political, social, and cultural change.

This exhibition, mounted in honor of Parks’s 100th birthday, includes eight of his most significant photographs, which were donated to MoAD by the photographer himself.

On view at MoAD from June 21 to September 29, 2013.

Image: Gordon Parks, Emerging Man, Harlem, 1952

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Exhibition: June 20, 2013 - September 29, 2013: J.D. ...

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Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday is the second in MoAD’s Curator’s Choice Series. Curated by Olabisi Silva, Director of the Contemporary Centre for Art, Lagos, this first showing of the work of Nigerian national treasure J.D. Ojerikere on the West Coast, is about preserving cultural traditions in the face of Nigeria’s change from colonial rule to independence. Ojerikere’s photographs, which date from 1955 to 2008, document traditional dress and hairstyles along with the Western-style adaptations that enabled the youth of Lagos to feel themselves part of the modern world. Many, Ojerikere included, feared that these sartorial transformations (that is, the Western fashions) would diminish the importance of Nigerian traditions and culture among the youth. Yet, as Ojerikere’s photographs show, traditional styles continued to be ever-present sartorial expressions of what it means to be Nigerian.

Sartorial Moments is the first of several exhibitions at MoAD that will examine the effects of African and Caribbean independence movements on Africans both in Africa and in the global diaspora. The next exhibition in the series, opening in fall 2013, is Cultivating Crosscurrents: African and Black Diasporas in Dialogue, 1960-1975.

On view at MoAD from June 20 to September 29, 2013.

Image: J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, untitled, 2008, 50.8 x50.8 cm

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Event: June 23, 2013: Family Free Day | Celebrate Black Music Month and Juneteenth presented by ...

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Celebrate Juneteenth and Black Music Month at MoAD with a Family Free Day presented by ScholarShare.

Enjoy Free Admission on the opening weekend of our new exhibitions, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Nigerian Photographer: Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday, and Gordon Parks Photographs at his Centennial. Create sidewalk chalk art with Jamie Treacy in front of the museum. Participate in an interactive workshop for families on Jazz as a Metaphor for Democratic Participation with Dr. Wes Watkins, founder of the Jazz & Democracy Project. Using the interactive Whackin’ The Blues™ activity, live musical performance featuring Rhonda Benin, and exclusive interviews with today’s jazz masters, Dr. Wes Watkins, will reveal key facets of the jazz process, and what this tells us about participating in the democratic process. This workshop will be in the MoAD Salon from 12:30-2pm. Following the workshop, Rhonda Benin and her band will present, There Ain't No Jazz Without the Blues, a musical experience that demonstrates the evolution of jazz from the blues sounds of the Mississippi Delta. Ain't No Jazz Without the Blues will be in the MoAD Salon from 3-4:30pm. In our Education Center, join us for a family art activity -- make your own musical instrument to take home with you with teaching artist Zena Allen. Drop in to our Education Center between 12-4pm to participate. In the Wells Fargo Heritage Center, view the documentary Juneteenth to learn all about the special celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation during its 150th anniversary.

FREE DAY sponsored by ScholarShare College Savings Plan

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm:

Event: July 20, 2013: TELL ME MORE | Scholarly Voices from the African Diaspora

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Dr. Robert C. Smith presents his book John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance, Dr. Smith provides a fascinating comparison of the challenges both men faced in their bid for the presidency, while at the same time providing comparative histories of the Catholic Irish and African American struggles to overcome racial and religious subordination in America. Kennedy’s Catholicism was an explicit issue in the 1960 election, and once elected he was extremely careful to avoid appearing either “too Irish” or “too Catholic.” While Obama’s race was not an explicit issue in the 2008 election, he was just as careful to avoid appearing “too black.” Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University.

Free with MoAD Admission.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm:

Event: July 25, 2013: FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION | Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan ...

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Join us for a film screening and panel discussion of Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean. This documentary details how in a nation once plagued by Idi Amin's reign of terror, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Ugandan coffee farmers have come together to challenge historical prejudice and economic hurdles by forming the "Delicious Peace Coffee Cooperative." The cooperative has become a model for others, demonstrating how the interweaving of harmonious relationships with Fair Trade practices can substantially improve the lives of people who are economically challenged.

Free with MoAD Admission.

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm:

Event: August 7, 2013: MUSIC ACROSS THE DIASPORA | The Spirit of the Drum: Rhythm-centric ...

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True to African tradition, the drum is still the heartbeat of many working class communities in the African diaspora. In this series, we will enter these communities through video clips, photos and rare recordings, as well as take an up-close look at several of the rhythmic instruments used in diverse drumming traditions found in the Americas. We'll also discuss the commonalities, connections and differences between regional forms and how these threatened art forms are the expressive voices of resistance as they have been since colonial times. Some of the drumming traditions into which we will delve are Abakuá, Arará, Iyesá, Candomblé, Vodún, Batá, Bomba, Samba, Rumba, Conga de Comparsa, Palo, Plena, Bembé, Cumbia, Merengue, Quitiplás, Tumba Francesa, and Candombe.

Five-time Grammy-nominated producer, bandleader, composer, percussionist and US Artists Fontanals Fellow, John Santos, is one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today. Born in San Francisco, California, he was raised in the Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean traditions of his family, surrounded by music. He is widely respected as one of the top writers, teachers and historians in the field and was a member of the Latin Jazz Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian Institution.