MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY | HAPO NA ZAMANI (Black Arts Movement Past and Present)
The Black Arts Movement was a cultural movement in the 1960s and 1970s led by Black artists, activists, and intellectuals that shaped the ideologies of Black identity, political beliefs, and African American culture. Past and present meet to reflect, examine, and point to the full experience and culture of the Black Arts Movement in a celebratory concert hosted by Carrie Mae Weems and Carl Hancock Rux with musical direction by Vernon Reid.
Co-presented with Harlem Stage as part of their Black Arts Movement: Then and Now Conference, examining the relationship of the Black Arts Movement to race, gender, sexuality, music, photography, film, poetry, theater, and dance as well as the larger Black Power Movement.