Three days of dialogue, learning, and a curated set of programs featuring keynote speaker Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and more!

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ENGAGE! brings together scholars, artists, performers, curators, and scientists for a dynamic convening over three days of dialogue, learning, and interactive activations. Inspired by the groundbreaking exhibition UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe curated by Key Jo Lee, the gathering invites our audience to excavate how we can reimagine Blackness not as fixed or earthbound, but as infinite – expansive, unknowable, and cosmically rich. The exhibition asks: What if we approached Blackness with the same wonder we bring to the universe? What if, like a black hole or distant star, Blackness could be a site of mystery, power, and transformation?

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Keynote Speaker is Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire, and participating UNBOUND artists include Michi Meko, Oasa DuVerney, and Rodney Ewing. Activations and exhibition tours at MoAD featuring Stephanie Parker, Reyna Brown, Keisha Jones, and Olivia Bendich.

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ENGAGE! Art, Blackness & the Universe is co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) and California College of the Arts (CCA), in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.

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For more details including a full schedule, please see the ENGAGE! page here.