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Past
Events
Global Groove
Friday December 2, 2005
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. View Photos
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Gala Inaugural Dinner and Tour
Thursday December 1, 2005 at MoAD and the
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. View Photos
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High Tea
Opening of Made in Africa
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 from 4pm - 6pm
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Community Preview (Free)
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony escorted by the Chipman Cougar Cadet Corps
Saturday November 26, 2005 |
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Bebe Moore Campbell
July 19, 2005
The Museum of the African Diaspora & The Lisa Dent Gallery presented author
Bebe Moore Campbell at the Lisa Dent Gallery. |
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Diaspora Double Feature
June 10, 2005
MoAD presented "Grannies on Safari " and "The Swenkas" at
the Eureka Theater followed by a reception at MacArthur Park. |
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History - Lost and Found
May 15, 2005
Featured a keynote address by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. titled ÒRecovering African-American
History: The Example of the BondwomanÕs Narrative,Ó the remarkable story of Hannah
Crafts, an African-American slave whose novel surfaced as an unpublished manuscript
at an auction in 2001. The history of this book and its publication are a window
into the wider questions of how communities find, reclaim and take in their own
missing history. |
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Across Oceans of Sound: Music
of the African Diaspora in the Americas
May 1, 2005
This event
was presented
by the Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Anthropology Undergraduate
Association; co-sponsored by the Museum of the African Diaspora. A panel discussion
and musical performance investigated how African music has been shaped by the "New
World" and has shaped music in various parts of the Americas. |
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AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968-2003
March
3, 2005
This exhibition at the International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State
University presented the first opportunity for US audiences to see close to
four decades of artistic production shaped by the influential forces of AfroCuban
religion, contemporary social issues, questions of cultural heritage, and personal
and diplomatic relations with Africa. |
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Celebrate Africa '05
February 23, 2005
MoAD gave viewers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts the opportunity to
view spectacular contemporary art and discover rare treasures inside the British
Museum in an exhibit connected to the opening of "Africa 05," the
largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever exhibited in Europe, and
the Hayward Gallery's "Africa ReMix.Ó
The evening also included entertainment, as well as featured works by Ethiopian
painter Wosene Kosrof, now living in the East Bay. |
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