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MoCADA Museum

MoCADA Museum Exploring the arts, education, and social justice through the lens of Africa & the Diaspora.

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) is committed to creating a greater awareness and appreciation of the relevance of the African Diaspora as it relates to contemporary urban issues through innovative exhibitions, public programs and educational interactive tours.

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Rest in power Edson Arantes do Nascimento, more affectionately called, Pelé. What began as a dream for a young powerful ...
12/29/2022

Rest in power Edson Arantes do Nascimento, more affectionately called, Pelé.

What began as a dream for a young powerful forward named Pelé at the sweet age of 15, spawned an irrefutable rise to stardom after joining the Santos soccer/futbol club in Brazil. This career defining moment grew legendary, spanning two decades as a player (in New York and Brazil), 3 World Cup wins, and G.O.A.T. status worldwide. Why? Because he changed the entire nature of the sport and how we play the game today.

By 1999 Pelé was named athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee. And 65 years since his first FIFA World Cup title win at age 17 with Brazil in Sweden on June 29, 1958, Pelé continues to hold the record as the youngest world champion of all time.

Rest in paradise king! You are the greatest of our time!

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Us: Habari Gani (what's the news)?You: Umoja, which means unity!🎨: "Black Unity," by Elizabeth Catlett,1968, cedar sculp...
12/26/2022

Us: Habari Gani (what's the news)?

You: Umoja, which means unity!

🎨: "Black Unity," by Elizabeth Catlett,1968, cedar sculpture, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art collection, Bentonville, Arkansas, photography by Edward C. Robison III.

"Catlett’s "Black Unity" is simultaneously a gesture of protest and solidarity. She carved the sculpture from a dark wood the color of brown skin. On one side is an enormous clenched fist; on the reverse are two serene, mask-like visages. The juxtaposition of these images represents quiet strength and defiant resolve." - Kanitra Fletcher, curator

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The moment we've all been waiting for is almost here!MoCADA's Year of Expansion kicks off in 2023, which will see the op...
11/29/2022

The moment we've all been waiting for is almost here!

MoCADA's Year of Expansion kicks off in 2023, which will see the opening of our long-awaited new gallery and performance space, MoCADA cafe, our community garden, and more! (...For those who've been on this ride with us all along....Finally!)

This journey, which has been several years in the making, offered us an amazing opportunity to deepen our relationship with community, our practice, our programs, our culture. So we can't wait to roll out some of the exciting ways we're working to transform this space in collaboration with you.

So this , . Pledge your support to MoCADA to help us realize our vision, to deliver more social justice programs set to empower our community through art for years to come.

Link: bit.ly/GiveMo2022

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A poem by award-winning poet, educator, and author, Shonda Buchanan, writer of the celebrated memoir, "Black Indian."BLA...
11/24/2022

A poem by award-winning poet, educator, and author, Shonda Buchanan, writer of the celebrated memoir, "Black Indian."

BLACK INDIAN

"All my journeys begin
in north carolina
without my knowing it;

Black Indians pushed like September crabshells
on an angry winter shore,
swept up in the storm of Moby Dick’s adventure.

The literature of us wiped and creamed
against an outcrop of colonizing rocks.
Our acorn, our buckskin, our dreaming, crushed. Corrected. 

Under the weight of change, we became husks of ourselves.

We were Neusiok, fading into Coharie ghosts on a river bank.
We were redblack wolves chewing our wrists from the arm.

We fought next to the Tuscarora,
beading ourselves into a story of lush rivers
and swampland and defeat,
unaware of the coming. Saddles and horses and silver in white mouths,
sweeping us up in their fingers like dust in the corners
of black powder pouches.

We ran. My family escaped  
from that swampland in sampson county into tennessee,
to indiana,
then michigan.

Indian, Mulatto, Colored.
Black.

We planted ourselves next to the Pottawatomie
and Ottawa like cornstalks.

We grew
into a farmhouse on fire."

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Are you a NYC-based changemaker, organizer, artist, educator, way-maker or community leader interested in exploring and/...
11/21/2022

Are you a NYC-based changemaker, organizer, artist, educator, way-maker or community leader interested in exploring and/or building a project rooted in fostering solidarity between AAPI and Black communities? Are you dedicated to inspiring and/or transforming yourself, other artists, the intended communities, or all of the above?

The Bandung Residency 2023, presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance () and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (), is your opportunity to bring your community-building project to life! Join a cohort of 7-10 way-makers who are developing transformational projects in NYC. The application is now open. Deadline is January, 9, 2023.

Learn more. Link: https://bit.ly/Bandung2023app
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Whew!!! It has been a non-stop day today for MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island! If you haven't been yet, don't ...
10/29/2022

Whew!!! It has been a non-stop day today for MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island! If you haven't been yet, don't miss out. This is your final call!

Tomorrow, 10/30 is the very last day to check out the Supremacy Project exhibition, The Living Altar multimedia presentation, plus the Protest art installation by All Street Journal and more.

Open from 12-5pm all day Sunday!



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Enjoy an evening of community conversation, storytelling, and acoustic ballads (shaped by multicultural influences from ...
10/27/2022

Enjoy an evening of community conversation, storytelling, and acoustic ballads (shaped by multicultural influences from Haitian folklore to American jazz and soul) with Lakou NOU / OUR Yard Artist-in-Residence, Singer/Activist Sherlee Skai ()

Fueled by her work with Haitian Bridge Alliance and her presence in Del Rio, Texas last year (when thousands of Haitians were treated poorly under the bridge and too many of them deported), this special, free community gathering aims to raise awareness of immigration rights and advocate for justice-centered policies for Haitian migrants.

Presented in collaboration between Sherlee Skai, Haiti Cultural Exchange, and MoCADA.

DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
LOCATION: MOCADA, 80 HANSON PLACE BROOKLYN
TIME: 7PM

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/allies-for-haitian-migrants-tickets-445595667637

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Join us as we consider the role of testimony, art and activism, as participants in Bradley McCallum's "Witnessing" publi...
10/24/2022

Join us as we consider the role of testimony, art and activism, as participants in Bradley McCallum's "Witnessing" public art project rejoin him 23-years after they first shared their stories of police brutality and misconduct. How has testimony shaped the speakers' life-long struggle for police reform and accountability?

Speakers:

Iris Baez: Mother of Anthony Baez (1994) and founder of the Anthony Baez Foundation .

Margarita Rosario: Mother of Anthony Rosario who was killed by the police in 1995

Charles Billups:  Retired New York City Police officer and Chairperson of the Grand Council of Guardians

Isabelle Leyva: Senior Organizer at the  New York Civil Liberties Union

Yojaira Alvarez: Senior Advisor & Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) of New York City

Bradley McCallum: Artist who first developed Witness Perspectives on Police Violence in collaboration with Jacqueline Tarry in 1999.

When: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 @ 6:30pm
Where: MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place Brooklyn

Link: .

Presented by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and MoCADA.

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Last chance to check out The Supremacy Project at  Abolition House on Governors Island. Please join  x  for a special ar...
10/22/2022

Last chance to check out The Supremacy Project at Abolition House on Governors Island. Please join x for a special artist-led tour of the 1st floor experience.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
2:00 PM

MoCADA Abolition House
Nolan Park - Building 7A
Governors Island

RSVP: [email protected]

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10/15/2022

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💥💥💥 SPECIAL POP UP ALERT! Music x Art 💥💥💥Join us this weekend for SUBCONSCIOUSLY, a special pop-up exhibition created in...
10/12/2022

💥💥💥 SPECIAL POP UP ALERT! Music x Art 💥💥💥

Join us this weekend for SUBCONSCIOUSLY, a special pop-up exhibition created in collaboration with South African producer Black Coffee, for his 3-day concert series at the Brooklyn Mirage!

Inspired by his 2021 album, the exhibition features the work of 6 artists across the African diaspora: Nene Mahlangu, Nicolas Premier, Daniela Yohannes, Maxwell DeWunmi, Maxime Manga, and Alexis Chivir-Ter Tsegba.

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When: Three Days Only, Friday, October 14 - Sunday 16
Where: Brooklyn Mirage, 140 Stewart Avenue, Brooklyn

AFROFUTURISM.
MINDFULNESS.
PLAYFUL EXPERIMENTATION.
OTHERWORLDLY JUXTAPOSITIONS.
COLORFUL NEW REALITIES.
HISTORY CALLING…. DREAM BEYOND NOW.

More info: MoCADA.org/subconsciously

We only have a few more days of summer left.... Join us for music, dance and film! Come through!  💥🎶🎬  with   We’re look...
09/14/2022

We only have a few more days of summer left.... Join us for music, dance and film! Come through! 💥🎶🎬

with We’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s screening of ‘Aya of Yop City!’ Come solo, bring your crew or make it a date night 💕

Join us before the screening for sounds by at 7pm, followed by short films, ‘Senegal – Keur Massar’ presented by Mayors Make Movies and produced by .yennenga + ‘A Hurum Gi N’anya’ (‘I Do’) by ✨

Bring a chair or blanket to sit cozily in the grass 🤎 See you there! Co-presented by 🌟

09/02/2022

🌟🌟🌟 Mark your calendars!

We're just a few days away from the closing screening of MoCADA Kidflix 2022, and you know what that means.

Every year (since 2000) we close out the festival with a free community screening of "The Wiz", which includes a costume party, music, dancing, games, double dutch, and more! Did we mention FREE ice cream by Brooklyn's own Creme and Cocoa Creamery?! 😋

Join us Friday, September 9 at 6:30pm at Herbert Von King park and don't forget your costume. Film starts at sunset.

Link: MoCADA.org/kidflix

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09/02/2022

You asked for it, and now it's here!

MoCADA Kidflix film festival presents a free online screening of "Adama" starting today and all weekend long.

Follow a young Adama as he sets out on an epic journey in search of his brother in this now classic animated film. 💫

Visit MoCADA.org/kidflix for more details. Then register to watch for free until Tuesday, September 6. So gather the kids and make it a movie night! 💥❤️🖤💚🎬📽️

Many thanks to our partners



Supremacy Project addresses the systematic oppression and violence BIPOC families and communities are fighting to end.Ad...
08/27/2022

Supremacy Project addresses the systematic oppression and violence BIPOC families and communities are fighting to end.

Add this unforgettable installation by to your weekend plans. It's just an 8minute ferry ride from Downtown Manhattan. And it's absolutely FREE to enter. Catch it before it's gone.

Link in bio. 💥✊🏾❤️🖤💚

with Our first floor takeover of the  Abolition House on Governors Island showcases the first Supremacy Project piece. This photo of police in riot gear in desolate Times Square by Steven John Irby () shot during the curfew imposed on NYC residents after the murder of George Floyd is juxtaposed with the Supremacy™ type treatment by Julian Alexander (). The haiku that is visible through the doorway are words by justin.el ().

Curated by Khadijat Oseni ().

The house is open from 12PM - 5:30PM, Saturdays & Sundays through October 30th. , Nolan Park, Building 7A

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08/27/2022

🎵🎵✊🏾💥⚡🎤🔊🔊 Salute to all of the sound systems and crews taking over the streets of Notting Hill in the UK today through Monday (August 27-29) for the first time since the pandemic began.

We celebrate one of the largest carnival weekends outside of the Caribbean with this throwback documentary from Notting Hill Carnival 2017, when Farah hosted the iconic Rampage stage. Watch as the legendary sound crew reflects on the evolution of sound systems in popular culture; a place where fashion, music and community merge as one.

Big up the sound systems playing Carnival 2022 this weekend: Rampage, Saxon Sound, Disya Jeneration, Channel One, Aba Shanti-I, Rapattack, Nasty Love, Love TKO, Arts-A-Light, Solution, King Tubby's, Triple S, People's Sound, Rough But Sweet, Disco Hustlers, Gladdy Wax Roadshow, 4Play Sound System, Different Strokes, Pineapple Tribe, High Grade, Metro Glory, G.I. Roadshow, Seduction City, GT Flex, Killer Watt, The Fun Bunch, Sir Lloyd, Lord Gelly's, Sir Valdez, Gaz's Rockin' Blues, Mark Ross, Latin Rave Street Jam, KCC and the Rocking Crew, Mastermind Roadshow, Virgo International, Volcano Sound and more.

The rain won't let us be great today. So tonight's screening of "Adama" and "Begho" has been cancelled. See you on Septe...
08/26/2022

The rain won't let us be great today. So tonight's screening of "Adama" and "Begho" has been cancelled. See you on September 9th when we host a costume party and screening of "The Wiz"!

Link in bio for more info.

Clarity on
08/26/2022

Clarity on

“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” - Marsha P. Johnson ❤️✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 📸: Patsy Lynch
08/25/2022

“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” - Marsha P. Johnson ❤️✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 📸: Patsy Lynch

🎯🎯🎯🎯 .r : Those borders were made by colonizers. The misplaced exceptionalism of black South Africans in relation to the...
08/25/2022

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.r : Those borders were made by colonizers. The misplaced exceptionalism of black South Africans in relation to the rest of the continent is a by-product of Apartheid.

Africa belongs to all Africans and there should be no place for Xenophobia.

A mural dedicated to the life of East New York, Brooklyn teen Yusuf Hawkins, who on August 23, 1989 was attacked, beaten...
08/24/2022

A mural dedicated to the life of East New York, Brooklyn teen Yusuf Hawkins, who on August 23, 1989 was attacked, beaten, and gunned down by a mob of 10-30 white youth in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. ❤️🖤💚🕯️

08/17/2022

Mood as we groove into week 2 of kidFliX film festival!

Shout out to and 🎵: "Juicy Fruit" by Mtume.

Bring the kids and the entire family out (blankets and lawn chairs too!) for another double header at Herbert Von King park this Friday, August 19 as we present two Nigerian films: a sci-fi shirt called "Into the Woods" by Critics Company and the animated fantasy film "Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters" by Adebisi Adetayo, Stanlee Ohikhuare, and Ayo Arigbabu.

And it's all FREE! 💥🎥🎬 Did we mention FREE ice cream from Brooklyn's own Creme and Cocoa Creamery?! Yum! 🍧

Link: MoCADA.org/kidflix

Ps. 3 more weeks until The Wiz costume party and screening! See you there! 🎇

Now Playing at Abolition House on Governors Island....⁠  4 short films produced as part of the MoCADA Films program. ⁠"J...
08/14/2022

Now Playing at Abolition House on Governors Island....⁠ 4 short films produced as part of the MoCADA Films program.

"JIGNA" a film by Leah Solomon
"INTO THE WOODS"⁠ a film by The Critics Company
"HOW GREAT IS Our GOD" a film by Adama Delphine Fawundu
"BUTTERFLY BOYZ" a film by Zola-Jourdan Savage

Watch the trailers + more: MoCADA.org/mocada-house ⁠



Made possible thanks to generous support from WarnerMedia Onefifty, AT&T Impact, The Ford Foundation, and NYC Coalition for Theaters of Color.

Happy 49th birthday,, Hip-Hop."Today marks the 49th anniversary of the “Birth of Hip Hop”… Much respect and gratitude to...
08/12/2022

Happy 49th birthday,, Hip-Hop.

"Today marks the 49th anniversary of the “Birth of Hip Hop”… Much respect and gratitude to for hosting his “back to school” jam at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx back in 1973. It forever changed the culture of music. 🙏🏾 " - words and art by Lynita Elle Solomon ()

08/11/2022

it's a double header tomorrow....

2 films for you and yours. The theme: Sankofa: Back to the future!

💫 This Friday we present LITTLE by Tina Gordon, starring Marsai Martin (), Issa Rae () and Regina Hall ()! Plus a short sci-fi adventure called AFRO ALGORITHMS by will kickstart the night 🌟

So bring the kids out for fun, games, films, popcorn and more right in the heart of Bed Stuy at Fulton Park.

KidFLIX is the only kids festival for us by us, that features the best films from Africa and the diaspora. Brought to you by MoCADA, African Film Festival (), Warner Media Onefifty (), AT&T () and Grayson.

See you in the park, rain or shine. Ice cream by Brooklyn's own Creme and Cocoa Creamery (). Learn more at MoCADA.org/kidflix

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❤️❤️❤️ Posted  •   has been found and is safe!!! THANK YOU to everyone who helped spread the word—it was through our col...
08/04/2022

❤️❤️❤️ Posted • has been found and is safe!!! THANK YOU to everyone who helped spread the word—it was through our collective outreach and media coverage that we were able to garner enough attention that she was recognized. THANK YOU NEW YORK!!! 🙏🏽

9 years is excessive. Free Brittney Griner now.
08/04/2022

9 years is excessive. Free Brittney Griner now.

Brooklyn massive... Have you seen her? Spread the word and please keep a look out.
08/04/2022

Brooklyn massive... Have you seen her? Spread the word and please keep a look out.

All of our legends are preparing the way for us .... rest in paradise beloved  Nichelle Nichols aka Star Trek's Lieutena...
07/31/2022

All of our legends are preparing the way for us .... rest in paradise beloved Nichelle Nichols aka Star Trek's Lieutenant Nyota Uhura of the USS Starship Enterprise. Thank you for visioning a future for us... Thank you for leading us there. Rest easy.🖖🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾🚀

07/30/2022

Now at MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island....

Supremacy Project (), led by artist Julian Alexander and curator Khadijat Oseni, addresses the systemic oppression and violence BIPOC families and communities are fighting to end.

Supremacy is the driving force behind the judicial, legislative, and executive inequities that we refuse to succumb to. This work serves as a reminder that our fiercest adversary is the system empowering those who violate us.

(IN)Justices

Link: MoCADA.org/Supremacy-project

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It's that time of year again! kidFLIX, Brooklyn's longest-running film festival dedicated to kids and their families, is...
07/30/2022

It's that time of year again!

kidFLIX, Brooklyn's longest-running film festival dedicated to kids and their families, is back with a new slate of films for the 2022 season! And it's all FREE!

Join us every Friday in August at Herbert Von King Park from 6:30-9pm for this schedule of films inspired by the theme: "Sankofa: Back to the Future":

August  5 
Short Film: Begho
Feature Film: Adama 

August 12
Short Film: Afro Algorithms
Feature Film: Little  

August 19 
Short Film: Into the Woods
Feature Film: Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters 

August 26
Costume Party +
Feature Film: The Wiz 

Made in partnership with and , with ice cream by Brooklyn's own . 🎬❤️🖤💚🍦🍨🍧

Learn more! MoCADA.org/kidflix

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07/29/2022

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07/29/2022

Calling all BK massive!!!! Soul of Brooklyn is back just in time for TAMA Sundays!

Join us this Sunday on Hancock and Tompkins from 2-6pm for DJs Run P. () and Dot Ichiro (), plus a live performance from .

Just bring the vibes and we'll bring the culture. See you out on the Ave!

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Presented by TAMA Bed Stuy (), Bridge Street Development Corp () and MoCADA ()

Rest in paradise to our beloved Mary Alice (Smith), our oracle, our Moms, our Miss Lettie, our Effie -- our masterful, E...
07/29/2022

Rest in paradise to our beloved Mary Alice (Smith), our oracle, our Moms, our Miss Lettie, our Effie -- our masterful, Emmy and Tony award winning actress. You were our goddess and you will be greatly missed. 💔

07/28/2022

Have you been to MoCADA House lately? This year our NYC retreat space doubles as a brave space for public dialogue on social justice, healing and renewal.

Join us at MoCADA Abolition House all summer through October 31 to experience the larger than life works of Supremacy Project, plus exclusive previews from MoCADA Film’s inaugural cohort (Leah Solomon, The Critics Company, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Zola-Jourdan Savage). Gain wisdom from participating activists in The Living Altar, then make protest art with The All Street Journal. Special additions this year: A Righteous Jones audiovisual installation by Run P. and a special interactive performance by Urban Bush Women.

Open every weekend until October 31. It's just 8 minute ferry ride from South street in Downtown Manhattan. Let's go!

Link: https://MoCADA org/mocada-house

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There's still time to catch the multisensory, neighborhood wellness studio. Join us for this special interactive experie...
07/10/2022

There's still time to catch the multisensory, neighborhood wellness studio. Join us for this special interactive experience, now with extended hours Monday-Sunday. Center yourself as you explore healing through traditional music and soundscapes from around the world via the lens of digital artist David Gumbs ().

On view until July 17. Presented by Brooklyn Arts Council and MoCADA.

Link : https://mocada.org/david-gumbs-brooklyn-sonic-clinic/

🎨: "Heavy" by Mississippi born conceptual artist Felandus Thames (), which was inspired by the celebrated book of the sa...
07/09/2022

🎨: "Heavy" by Mississippi born conceptual artist Felandus Thames (), which was inspired by the celebrated book of the same name by author and educator Kiese Laymon (). Thames attended the graduate program in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University where he received his MFA in 2010.

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We love you. ❤️❤️ Inspiration from artist Pierre Bennu ()
07/02/2022

We love you.
❤️❤️ Inspiration from artist Pierre Bennu ()

06/30/2022
State of the Community Townhall 6/30

The State of the Community, a two-day discussion centering recent events, issues, and other concerning factors that are greatly impacting our community.

Hosted by MoCADA, Black Policy Lab and Sustainable BK, the intention of this brave + safe space is to activate our community braintrust and uplift voices from within, while offering tangible resources and collaboratively working together to create solutions that empower our community to thrive.

Address

80 Hanson Place
New York, NY
11217

General information

Admission: $8 With valid student ID: $4 Senior (65+): $4 Children under 12 years are free when accompanied by an adult. Friend of MoCADA: Free B,D,N,R,Q,2,3,4,5 to Atlantic Terminal - Barclays Center | C to Lafayette Ave. | G to Fulton St.

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Snapshot of Andrea L. Rogers’ debut book celebration MoCADA Museum 🥰 As we move into the end of the year, we’ve been thinking of Andrea’s debut journey, which we’ve been honored to support. Read on for Andrea's Kweli story.

Andrea attended her first Kweli Conference in 2016. According to Joseph Bruchac & Debbie Reese, this was “the largest gathering of Native children’s book writers in one single place since the Returning the Gift gathering in the 1990s.”

Andrea wrote about her experience in the anthology ALLIES (DK Publishing, 2021)

“The writing conference sponsored by Kweli was a completely different experience from all that had come before. The first time I met her in person, at the check-in tables for the Color of Children's Literature Conference, Laura's voice sang out to me, 'Andrea, I'm so glad you're here!' I was alone in [NYC] for the first time in my life…surrounded by Brown faces and anticipated meeting other Native writers that morning. For an Indigenous writer accustomed to the micro aggressions of majority white writing spaces, this was a new feeling. BIPOC people have had to bring their own chairs to a lot of tables. As a Cherokee writer, even finding the tables in the publishing world had been a challenge. Laura Pegram saw a need for a table where marginalized writers could grow, a place where they could work on the stories singing in their souls. Laura built that table. Before I attended the Kweli Conference, being a writer had been a lonely experience. For the first time, I felt like becoming a published author was truly in reach.”

A familiar story to writers, Andrea faced industry pushback on her unique voice. Laura worked w/ Andrea closely to publish her brilliant short story, “Man-Made Monsters" in Kweli Journal (2018). She introduced Andrea to an editor at , which published her debut collection of YA stories that sings the truth so beautifully about the horrors of empire and dispossession. “Man Made Monsters” is the collection’s title story 😊 It was our absolute honor to celebrate the launch of her book...We have one more special announcement about Andrea & coming up that'll bring her debut journey full circle--stay tuned!

The team has been speaking a lot about full-circle journeys like Andrea's this harvest season. We know there are so many brilliant, essential writers of color who need this kind of community and support. If you can, please give to our end-of-year campaign to support these writers. We raising funds to provide scholarships for to attend our lit fest, subsidize retreat fees & more.

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Applications have opened for the Asian American Arts Alliance + MoCADA Museum's Bandung Residency! This 4-month program is designed to uplift the work of artists and organizers.

Sign up for the info session here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bandung-2023-residency-information-session-tickets-445138249487
Come and visit new beautiful, commissioned art in your Flatbush neighborhood. Together, we can make our neighborhood cleaner, safer and more good looking.


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Come and visit new beautiful, commissioned art in your Flatbush neighborhood. Together, we can make our neighborhood cleaner, safer and more good looking.



MoCADA Museum Flatbush Artists Collectives Kings Theatre STUDENTS (ACPCE) NYC Department of Small Business Services
Tonight!
Join our artist Sherlee Skai and MoCADA Museum Executive Director Amy Andrieux for an evening of music, storytelling, and conversation around Allyship for Haitian Migrants.

7pm at MoCADA. 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn
Enter a brave space for public dialogue about social justice! It’s the last weekend to visit MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island with abolition-themed exhibits addressing systemic oppression that BIPOC families and communities are fighting to end, protest with art, and more to deepen our understanding of the lived experiences and heritage of ourselves and others! Details on free ferry rides to the island (before noon on the weekends) can be found at https://www.govisland.com/plan-your-visit/ferry.

See what exhibits and films are being shown here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CgkkVq_g17T/
💫 The book event blessings continue NEXT TUESDAY 11/1, 7PM EST, with a multimedia event featuring author Andrea L. Rogers and musician Kalyn Fay! Andrea will read from her debut YA collection, MAN MADE MONSTERS 👻, and Kalyn will sing original music in the Cherokee language. Andrea will then be in conversation with our EIC, Laura Pegram--expect plenty of craft convo goodness!

Event will be held at the wonderful MoCADA Museum & will also feature dance and photography! Masks & vaccination required for our collective safety! RSVP HERE: https://tinyurl.com/ynv6hrvv (Stay tuned for virtual RSVP link!)

Tommy Orange, author of THERE THERE, says of the collection: “Man Made Monsters is a brilliant and expansive journey across time, seen through a Cherokee lens, written by the brilliant and essential voice of Andrea Rogers. This collection is full to the brim with voice and breadth, including but not limited to magic, horror, and fantasy. The book is fun, funny, and dead-serious. It is beautifully written, and it is full of monsters.”

We were lucky enough to publish the TITLE STORY of this collection at Kweli! Read in our archives: https://www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2018/11/12/man-made-monsters-by-andrea-l-rogers

P.S. don't forget to RSVP to join us online this Thursday @ 7PM EST for a discussion between Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of new memoir THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS, and Hannah Bae. Just blessings on blessings this witching season 🧙🏾‍♀️

New York & Philly fam! Hope you can come out to the in-person launch of A Tinderbox in Three Acts at MoCADA Museum on Oct. 19 at 6PM ET.

I am very, very excited to offer a performance in collaboration with Djassi DaCosta Johnson featuring original choreography, music, & visual art, and to be in conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Editor-at-Large of BOA Editions Blessing the Boats Selections.

Immense thanks to the ever trailblazing Kweli Journal for organizing this event 🌸🌸🌸 RSVP at bit.ly/3S8anjg
"Subconsciously", a pop up exhibition curated by me for MoCADA Museum in collaboration with South African producer BLACK COFEE . On view October 14-16 at The Brooklyn Mirage. Featuring Daniela Yohannes, Nicolas Premier , Maxwell Dewunmi , manga, Nene Mahlangu , and Alexis Tsegba . ❤️❤️❤️
🗓️ NEW EVENT ALERT: We couldn’t be more excited to host a multi-media evening next WEDNESDAY 10/19 with Cynthia Dewi Oka and Aracelis Girmay to celebrate Cynthia’s new collection of poetry, A TINDERBOX IN THREE ACTS 🔥

Cynthia’s powerful book “performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965… [giving] form and voice to the ghosts that continue to haunt subsequent generations despite decades of state-produced amnesia and disinformation.”

The incomparable Aracelis Girmay says of the collection, “This book is a fire. A ceremony. An unburying. It is a tremendous honor to walk behind Cynthia and this truly essential work.”

In-person seating capacity is limited so claim your seat now! Please note: masks and vaccinations are required. FREE RSVP here: https://forms.gle/8j5mbvsCVw8oanjDA

--- message below via Cynthia (at freedewi on IG)

New York & Philly fam! Hope you can come out to the in-person launch of A Tinderbox in Three Acts at MoCADA Museum on Oct. 19 at 7PM ET.

I am very, very excited to offer a performance in collaboration with Djassi DaCosta Johnson featuring original choreography, music, & visual art, and to be in conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Editor-at-Large of BOA Editions’ Blessing the Boats Selections.

Immense thanks to the ever trailblazing .journal for organizing this event 🌸🌸🌸

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