Public Programs Calendar

Thursday Think Tank is a hot new series at MoAD.

Artists, chefs, web designers, writers, sculptors, performance artists, and activists take the stage for six minutes and forty seconds, describing the substance behind their creative processes and establish new connections with potential collaborators.

Join us in our 2nd event in this series as MoAD invites creative practitioners from its community to describe their experiences as Change Makers.

It's fun, social, a perfect way to make connections with fellow artists, activists, and entrepreneurs and share your work/ideas.

$5-$10 sliding scale.

Two Saturdays in February

February 6 & 13

Shekere workshop with Daniel Randolph

Come participate in a one of a kind, hands-on workshop and create your very own shékéré (gourd rattle).

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

Master instrument maker, Daniel Randolph will teach participants how to make a shékéré and walk you through techniques to decorate it, including carving, painting, decorating and burning.

Daniel will also share his collection of gourds from around the world and provide information about gourd instruments and their uses throughout the African Diaspora.

Workshop series $45 members/$55 non-members. Materials provided.

Join us for an exciting day of viewing and doing: Start with a guided tour of the Museum of Craft and Folk Art's exhibition, Rhythm and Hues: Cloth and Culture of Mali, followed by a short walk to MoAD for some hands-on fun, West African style -- indigo dyeing and bogolonfini (mudcloth) making. Malian artist Barou Samaké will join us on May 1. Reserve your space by calling 415.227.4888 x10.

February 6 and May 1, 1pm - 4pm

Two Saturdays in February

February 6 &13

Shekere workshop with Daniel Randolph

Come participate in a one of a kind, hands-on workshop and create your very own shékéré (gourd rattle).

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

Master instrument maker, Daniel Randolph will teach participants how to make a shékéré and walk you through techniques to decorate it, including carving, painting, decorating and burning.

Daniel will also share his collection of gourds from around the world and provide information about gourd instruments and their uses throughout the African Diaspora.

Workshop series $55 non-members / $45 members. Materials provided.

WritersCorps joins forces with 4 museums ( Zeum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) to present Claim the Block, readings by young writers who are connecting to their city and its art.

Featuring Myron Michael Hardy and Neela Banerjee with students from Downtown High School and Ida B. Wells High School.

Admission: $2.00

Spirituality in the Diaspora Then and Now

Rev. Dr. James A. Noel will illuminate connections between Africa and millions of people in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and elsewhere who are of African descent. Dr. Noel will present a historical overview of spiritual practices in the African Diaspora. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Africans were taken to Portugal, Spain, The Caribbean and Latin America from various ethnic groups, nation, and stateless societies. They were thrown together on slave ships and New World plantations. They developed strategies of resistance, survival and transformation that drew upon and produced new religious-cultural identities and rhythms.

This lecture is the first in the ongoing MoAD series Migrations of the Sacred: Spiritual Practices Across the Diaspora which will explore the cultural context of spirituality across the Black Atlantic; how it has adapted and transformed over the last 500 years while identifying major influences, traditions, and practices.

Rev. Dr. James A. Noel occupies the H. Eugene Farlough Chair in African American Christianity at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. He is the author of Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World (Palgrave: 2006); co-editor with Matthew V. Johnson of The Passion of the Lord: African American Reflections (Fortress Press: 2006); and author of numerous encyclopedia articles on aspects of black life.

Cooperation and Conflict: Relations Between African Americans and Jews: From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Barack Obama

Join these two prominent leaders Rabbi Marc Schneier and Martin Luther King, III as they engage in candid conversation about Jewish-African American relations, addressing both problems and solutions. Rabbi Marc Schneier is president and founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), a national non-profit dedicated to strengthening relations between ethnic communities and committed to the belief that direct, face-to-face dialogue is the most effective path towards the reduction of bigotry and the promotion of reconciliation and understanding. Human rights advocate, community activist and political leader Martin Luther King, III, the son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has been actively involved in significant policy initiatives to maintain the fair and equitable treatment of all citizens, at home and abroad.

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco * 3200 California St. *San Francisco, CA 94118-1994 jccsf.org (415) 292-1200

Members $15 | Public $18 | Students $10

Lecture and Pre-Lecture Reception at 7:00PM

Members $35 | Public $40 | Students $35

Co-sponsored by Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), The Equal Justice Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council

MoAD partners with see. think. dance. to present a series of artist salons that engages DANCE FIRST!

In a move that accentuates raw performance, local dancer/choreographers present solo work with live accompaniment from their favorite musicians in the intimate setting of the MoAD Salon.

Each evening in the series ends with a discussion/reception to facilitate direct artist/audience exchange.

This evening's Salon will highlight different facets of movement in the African aesthetic - from Afro-Haitian and the dances of the American South to Contemporary African Theater and Urban Performance Art.

Collaborating with the musicians who inspire them most, each dancer exemplifies the body as instrument, while dismantling the mystique around dance as high art.

Admission $10

Join us in our Family Day focusing on Mardi Gras. Begin your visit in MoAD’s 2nd Floor Salon from 1:00 -2:00 where you will be treated to New Orleans Style Jazz by the Terrence Brewer Jazz Trio. Then make your way up to our 3rd Floor Education Center to create your own original Mardi Gras inspired mask. In the Heritage Center, participants of all ages can sit, have some tea and listen to Carnival stories from the Caribbean and Louisiana.

Free with Museum Admission.

Up from the Bottoms

Director: James Schaub

2009 | 58 min. l U.S.A. l Northern California Premiere

This documentary tells the story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to the prosperous North during the war years and beyond. The voice of Cicely Tyson guides us through these touching, thoughtful and often funny stories as told by fifteen residents of Muskegon, Michigan.

Civil rights activist, comedian and author Dick Gregory gives a national perspective along with the renowned scholar of Black Americana studies, Dr. Ben Wilson. During the late 1930’s through the 1960’s factory jobs in the north were abundant while farming jobs in the southern states were disappearing. In the 1940’s alone, a million and a half African Americans left the south and spread across this land. They were looking for a better life, the American dream. This documentary reveals the human side of the migration and the character of the people who chose to make this noble journey.

Free with Museum Admission

Come hear top Bay Area spoken word artists perform pieces that tug at your emotional heartstrings and echo your very sentiments regarding the ways you relate to the foods you love (or hate).

We all have a certain relationship with the foods we love: chocolate, a juicy piece of chicken, ice cream, that barbecued slab of ribs, or the reasons we’ve become vegetarian or vegan.

Exclusive wine tastings prior to performances.

6:00-8:00 PM Wine tasting

8:00-10:00 PM Performances

Admission $20