Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

Thursday’s Virtual Food-Based Series with Bryant Terry features Brooklyn Borough’s President Eric Adams! Eric Adams is the Brooklyn Borough President having previously served three terms in the New York State Senate and 22 years in the New York City Police Department. After being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2016, he adopted a plant-based diet and successfully reversed his #diabetes. RSVP today for this event for Thursday, November 12 starting at 3PM PDT at moadsf.org/calendar.

Thrilled for Leila Weefur’s Virtual Studio Visit at 1PM PDT today! Watch on Facebook Live, Youtube, or RSVP for this event at moadsf.org/calendar. Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video and installation they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject Blackness, hyper surveillan...ce, and the erotic. Weefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA, The Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Their writing has been published by Sming Sming Books and Objects, Baest Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, and more. RSVP today in our bio now or watch on Facebook Live or Youtube this Wednesday, November 11th.

Bryant Terry knows his way around vegetables. His newest book serves up vibrant, accessible, plant-based dishes filtered through the lens of Black culture and diasporic foodways. Congratulations Bryant Terry, our Chef-in-Residence!

This month: Ashara Ekundayo will be in conversation with Gia Hamilton and Dawn Okoro on November 17 from 4-5:15PM PDT. RSVP today in our bio link. BLATANT is a forum and live zine series authored and facilitated by Independent curator and cultural strategist #AsharaEkundayo that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of #Blackwomxn artists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography. Presented in conjunction with her Artist as First Responder ...platform, this monthly discussion highlights artists whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. Gia Hamilton is the Executive Director and Chief Curator at the New Orleans African American Museum sits on the board of directors of Alliance of Artist Communities and a national advisor for Prospect.5 and Museum Hue. Dawn Okoro is a painter, fashion designer, and videographer living in Austin, Texas. Her desire to make art sparked from her love of fashion illustration, photography, and design. She uses fashion as a means of aesthetic expression and resistance.

More than excited for Leila Weefur’s Virtual Studio Visit at 1PM PDT on Wednesday, November 11th! Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video and installation they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject Blackness, hyper surveillance, and the erotic. Weefur is a recipient of the ...Hung Liu award, the Murphy & Cadogan award, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA, The Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Their writing has been published by Sming Sming Books and Objects, Baest Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, and more. RSVP today at moadsf.org/calendar. See more

Few days before Claudia Rankine joins Conversations Across the Diaspora, hosted by Sarah Ladipo Manyika on Friday, November 13! Register today for this virtual event at moadsf.org/calendar now. This month’s Conversation’s Across the Diaspora is co-presented with Litquake. Author and host Sarah Ladipo Manyika is in conversation with poet, essayist and playwright Claudia Rankine. After you register you will receive information to join via zoom on November 13th at 12 noon (Pacif...ic Daylight Time) / 8pm (UK). Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) was published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her next publication, Just Us: An American Conversation, a collection of essays with Graywolf Press released in September 2020. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.

This Friday on IG Live we're giving you the chance to Ask a Food Stylist with Elle Simone. Whether you’re thinking about starting a career as a food stylist or simply want to know more about the art and craft of making food look fresh, tantalizing, and delicious you don’t want to miss this week’s Choppin it Up with MoAD featuring multihyphenate food creative Elle Simone. Elle will talk about her specific career arc as a food stylist then answer questions from you. https://www.instagram.com/moadsf/

Activist and scholar Angela Davis joins artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial justice, moderated by Sarah Lewis.

Join us this Thursday at 2pm for a new series where MoAD Docents look at some of the earliest photographs of Black women, men, children, and families. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_o8svGWSUQuSJaqnp5Iy0uQ

We know this week is tense, but the #AfricanDiaspora community is always here for you! Join this Thursday’s Open Mic Night to unpack and relieve your mind on November 5th starting 6:00 PM PDT at moadsf.org/calendar now. All interested readers, please sign up to perform in bio. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister, join us for an evening of spoken word, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome.... This week’s featured artist is K. Eltinaé: a Sudanese poet of Nubian descent, raised internationally as a third culture kid. His work has been translated into Arabic, Greek, Farsi, and Spanish and has appeared in World Literature Today, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Many Muslim Worlds (Penguin), The African American Review, About Place Journal, Muftah, among others. He is the first place poetry winner of Muftah´s Creative Writing Competition At Home in the World and co-winner of the 2019 Dignity Not Detention Prize from Poetry International. His debut collection The Moral Judgement of Butterflies is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, Spring 2021 and won the The 2019 International Beverly Prize for Literature. He currently resides in Granada, Spain.