3 Floors: * Art * Open Bar * Live Music by Rahan Boxley & Band

*DJ DC * Food * Desserts *

The MoAD Vanguard is hosting the premiere party of the SF Holiday season. And we are requesting the honor of your presence. Kick off your party season in serious style at our Annual Holiday Party!

This year's holiday party will be even grander than years' past as guests will be among the first to enter, explore and enjoy the newly renovated Museum of The African Diaspora dressed in all its cool Winter Wonderland splendor.

Early ticket purchase strongly suggested. Capacity expected.

* All proceeds go to aid MoAD in it's mission to offer education, community and art focused programming exploring the African diaspora and how we are all connected!

*Attire: cocktail

Ticket info: 2014vanguardholidayparty.eventbrite.com

*Special Pricing for MoAD Vanguard members!*

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Sponsored by: Bay Social | theREGISTRYBayArea | Spark SF | Kearny Street Workshop | The Addition

Supporters: Young Blacks of the Bay (YBB) | Onyx Bay Area Black Professionals

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Get the chance to check out the first two exhibits in the newly renovated MoAD:

Drapetomania - the Art of Afro-Cuba: by Grupo Antillano Grupo Antillano articulated a vision of Cuban culture that privileged the importance of Africa and Afro-Caribbean influences in the formation of the Cuban nation. The art of Grupo Antillano belongs to a long tradition of Caribbean resistance and cultural assertion. It is part of what Haitian poet René Depestre has described as the African slaves’ “prodigious effort at legitimate defense” and “ideological cimarronaje (“Self-liberation”)” by which they managed to recreate their pasts and cultures in the new world.

‍Beyond: by Lava Thomas

‍This is a two-part exhibition that weaves together early and new works in a way that the old becomes the new and the new an echo of the old. With these works, Thomas created alternative ways to approach portraiture that inspires reflective thought and evokes a sense of the sublime through memory, metamorphosis, and transcendence.

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