Conversations on Self-Determination: Black Radical Brooklyn: Past, Present, and Future
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Hear how four artworks came to life. Listen as artists and community partners reflect on two years of making art that explores local sites of self-determination, yesterday and today.
Moderators: Rashida Bumbray, Independent Curator; Rylee Eterginoso, Curator, Weeksville Heritage Center; Nato Thompson, Chief Curator, Creative Time
Speakers: Xenobia Bailey, Artist, Century 21: Bed-Stuy Rhapsody in Design: A Reconstruction Urban Remix in the Aesthetic of Funk; Dwight Brewster, Digital Media Officer at Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium; Jamal Cyrus, Artist, OJBK FM; Ron Johnson, Historian at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; Stanley Kinard, Community Coordinator & Director of Care Center at Boys & Girls High School; Simone Leigh, Artist, Free People’s Medical Clinic; Clarence Mosley, Chairman at Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium; DeeArah Wright, on behalf of theEnglish Family of Stuyvesant Mansion; Curator Rashida Bumbray on behalf of Bradford Young, Artist, Bynum Cutler.
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Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center in collaboration with the Schomburg Center presents Conversations on Self Determination, a series to compliment Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn. The trio of Saturday afternoon community discussions will explore themes of music, medicine, and more amongst artists, scholars. and community partners.
Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn includes a series of diverse, community-based artist commisions, in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Weeksville neighborhoods. The project comprises works by artists Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young, each of whom is collaborating with a local organization. The commissioned works will build upon the powerful history of Weeksville--founded in 1838 as an independent free Black community and site of self-determination--as well as the larger history of Black radical Brooklyn.