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Past Events
WEDS DEC 26 @ 1-7PM: Kwanzaa
Look for our table with Obama fabrics and info on how to join the project. Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric.
At Boys & Girls High School. Click here for directions
Proceeds go to cover expenses from the 2012 Black President's Day Exhibit
SAT OCT 6 @ 12-5PM: Restoration Rocks BedStuy Alive Festival
Look for our table with Obama fabric skirts and info on how to join the project. Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric.
Proceeds go to cover expenses from the 2012 Black President's Day Exhibit
FRI AUG 31 @ 7PM: MoCADA KID Flix
Sponsored by MoCADA. Join us for a special screening of an interview on the Obama Skirt Project from MoCADA TV. Followed by feature film, The Wiz. Look for our table with info on how to join the Story Skirt project.
Click here for directions and KIDFlix details.
THU-SAT, JUL 5-7 @ 1-7 each day: International African Arts Festival
Sponsored by the IAAF. Look for our booth with fabrics and portraits from the Black President's Day Exhbition + info on how to support the project. Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric.
Visit www.facebook.com/IAAFestival for hours, and directions.
SAT APR 28: Arts and Culture Fest
Sponosored by Calabar Imporrts. Look for our booth with fabrics and portraits from the Black President's Day Exhbition + info on how to support the project. Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric.
SAT-MON, MAY 26-28 @ 1-6PM each day: Dance Africa's Memorial Day Weekend Festival
Sponsored by Berlyn Restaurant, in honor of Dance Africa's 35th anniversary, we'll be displaying a full 1/2 a block of images and fabrics from the Black President's Day exhibition. Look for us along the facade of Berlyn Restaurant directly across from the main entrance to BAM.
Visit http://berlynrestaurant.com for directions
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| How much do we love this photo of Dance Africa founder Chuck Davis wearing Obama fabric from Mali? <3 |
SAT MAY 19: Habana Outpost's 2012 Block Party.
Sponsored by Habana Outpost. Look for our table with Obama fabrics and info on how to support the project. Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric.
Visit www.habanaoutpost.com/event/calendar for hours and directions
SUN MAY 13
Sponsored by Peaches and Jamil Smith Photography. View Mother&Daughter portraits from the 2012 Black President's Day Exhibition - by Nasilele Holland and Malik Yusef Cumbo ++ Get info on how you can get involved in the Story Skirt project.
++ Malick Sidibe inspired Mother&Daughter photobooth sponsored by http://
+ Donate $10 or more to the Story Skirt Project and receive a free yard of Obama fabric +
Proceeds go to cover expenses from the 2012 Black President's Day Exhibit & to fund our summer outreach campaign. Help us capture as many black women's stories as possible before President Obama's historic 1st term ends!
THE 3PM TOUR IS NOW FULL. We have added a 1PM Tour led by 2012 Black President's Day Exhibition curator Aisha Cousins on SAT APR 14. Advance registration is not required, but is highly suggested. Visit http://2012blackpresidentsdaytour2.eventbrite.com to register for the 1PM tour today.
Tour starts at Liquid Oz Cafe. 302 Malcolm X Blvd (btwn Decatur & MacDonough)
FREE Walking tours: MAR 31 + APR 01 @ 3:00 PM
Tours start at Liquid Oz Cafe. 302 Malcolm X Blvd (btwn Decatur & MacDonough)
SAT MAR 31: Led by African textiles author & Fulbright scholar, Catherine McKinley
SUN APR 01: Led by exhibit curator & BedStuy Story Skirts founder, Aisha Cousins
Friday Film series:
Stuyvesant Gardens Senior Center
150 Malcolm X Blvd (btwn Monroe and Gates)
By Bus: B 52 to Malcolm x Blvd or B46 to Gates
See dates below for film descriptions
Kenyan music legends, Just a Band, made history in 2010 with Kenya's first viral video sensation Ha-He featuring Makmende, but did you know they make political documentaries too? Check out both and hear youth from Kenya's capital city sound off on the nation's political climate. (30 minutes)
MAR 23: Fashioning Peace in Kenya
The 2007 elections in President Obama's fatherland, Kenya, sparked a wave of violence that drove over 500,000 out of their homes to tent cities in Kenya and beyond. Filmmaker Joshua Bee Alafia follows Kenyan fashion designers and artists as they raise money to help heal their country's wounds and bring their countrymen home (28 minutes).
Regretfully, the MAR 16 screening has been cancelled.
Please be sure to join us next FRI MAR 23
What do you get when you cross "The Muppets" with "The Daily Show?" South Africa and Kenya's hit political comedies: The ZA News & The XYZ Show. Featuring skits on our very own President Obama. (25 min)
MAR 09: Battle for the Hearts and Minds + Saving Malcolm
Shorts by 2012 exhibition artists. W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey square off for the title of turn-of-the-century black leader in Shani Peters' stop motion animation (10 minutes). Followed by Andrew Beard's tale of a modern day time traveler's fight to stop Malcolm X's assassination (15 minutes).
MAR 02 In Our Lifetime
On the eve of Obama's election, BedStuy filmmaker Allison Bonner Shillingford invites 7 Afro-Americans who have lived through 15 presidents, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement to reflect on the possibility of having a black president in their lifetime.
SAT FEB 18: Artist Talk @ 2:30 PM
Black President's Day founders Aisha Cousins and Shani Peters, members of the original BedStuy Obama Skirters, and the photographers behind this year's breathtaking portraits share what inspired them to join the Story Skirt Project and explain how you can get involved.
Macon Library
361 Lewis Ave at Macon St
By train: A to Utica (Exit on Lewis Ave)
By Bus: B26 to Lewis or B15 to Macon
