High Desert with James Spooner

Oct

31

3:00pm

EDT

ABOUT

Join us for an in-person artist talk with mixed media artist Kimberly M. Becoat, as she discusses her solo exhibition, URBANIA.

Using Black cultural production as a mechanism for reclamation through the lens of public housing, viewers are afforded the artist's undeniable social commentary on liberation, cultural preservation, and her insatiable call to restorative play. URBANIA is on view April 22 – June 19. Learn more about the exhibition HERE.

The Sun Rises in the East:

Screening + Community Conversation

Join us for a special conversation and screening of The Sun Rises in The East, the first feature-length documentary by

Black-Owned Brooklyn that chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The panel discussion will be moderated by C. Zawadi Morris and will feature Cynthia Gordy Giwa and Tayo Giwa (the directors), Kweli Campbell, and Mark Winston Griffith.

RSVPs Closed

June

04

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2022

6:30pm

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9:30pm

HIGH DESERT with JAMES SPOONER:

A Single Day BK Festival + Celebration

Join us for "High Desert" with James Spooner, the creator of Afropunk, for a single day culture festival in celebration of his new, coming-of-age graphic novel's release. The schedule will include a book-signing; zine workshop and small Black press fair led by #blkgrlswurld ; musical performances by The Ire, Truth Cult; DJ sets by Honeychild and CX Kidtronik; a panel discussion with Black graphic novel leaders Ben Passmore, Ronald Wimberly, and Tanna Tucker; plus, an artist talk with James Spooner, moderated by Dawnie Walton.

High Desert is a grabbing, angsty coming-of-age tale offers a sidewalk view of a creative subculture. It’s also a poignant ode to the power of music to fill voids left by family and circumstance, with provocations thrumming on race and identity that sound out like a smashed guitar.

June 11, 2022
1PM–1AM

See the Full Schedule below.

RSVPs Closed

Schedule