🌟🌟🌟 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
❤️🖤💚🎬💥🐾🧙🏾♀️🪄👠🦁 #mocadakidflix #thewiz #freefilms #movienight #costumeparty
🎵🎵✊🏾💥⚡🎤🔊🔊 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. #music #soundsystems #nottinghillcarnival #africandiaspora
Mood as we groove into week 2 of kidFliX film festival!
Shout out to @masakakidsafricana 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! 🎇
#mocadakidflix #familyfriendly #films #kids #movienight
Are you ready? Kidflix, Brooklyn's longest running kids film festival launches this Friday! Meet us at Fulton park! And it's totally free! Join us!
📆 Schedule:
August 5 @ Fulton Park, Brooklyn
Short Film: Begho
Feature Film: Adama
August 12 @ Fulton Park, Brooklyn
Short Film: Afro Algorithms
Feature Film: Little
August 19 @ Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn
Short Film: Into the Woods
Feature Film: Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters
August 26 @ Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn
Costume Party +
Feature Film: The Wiz
Visit MoCADA.org/kidflix for more info!
#kidflixfilmfest is made in partnership with @africanfilmfest,Warner Media Onefifty, At&t and Grayson.
Ice cream by @cremecocoanyc
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Now at MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island....
Supremacy Project (@supremacyproject), 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 #whoprotectsmefromyou
Link: MoCADA.org/Supremacy-project
❤️🖤💚✊🏾 #supremacyproject #mocadaabolitionhouse
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. (@run_p) and Dot Ichiro (@dotichiro), plus a live performance from #SampleSaleMusic.
Just bring the vibes and we'll bring the culture. See you out on the Ave!
🎵❤️🖤💚💥😎 #soulofbrooklyn #tamasummerfest
Presented by TAMA Bed Stuy (@tamabedstuy), Bridge Street Development Corp (@bridgestreetdev) and MoCADA (@mocada_museum)
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
#mocadaabolitionhouse #governorsisland 💥❤️🖤💚✊🏾🪧🎬
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.
State of the Community Townhall 06/29
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.
Join us for ✨BAC Sonic Clinic Pop-Up Exhibition at MoCADA which will be on view for one week only! June 25th – July 3rd! Visit brooklynartscouncil.org or MoCADA.org to learn more.
Music in BAC's Sonic Clinic is encountered in a conventional and unconventional sense, meaning that the sounds presented here are created from instruments in a conventional sense, and through the body or soundscapes in an unconventional sense. BAC's Sonic Clinic holds true to what music can mean to many different communities and how healing through music is engaged in diverse ways.
The exhibition features musical compositions by Samir Langus; Aeilushi Mistry; Vong Pak & Junghee Oh; Zane Rodulfo; and Martin Vejarano as well as digital artworks by artist David Gumbs, whose creations move you through each healing soundscape.
#brooklyn #brooklynartscouncil #brooklynart #brooklynartist #artsnonprofit #nonprofit #nonprofitorganization #bac #community #wellness #healing #culturalhealing
Here's an oldie but goodie, starring Brooklyn based ROIR and Invisiblegirl Recording artist Honeychild Coleman aka DJ Sugarfree Bk. This tune from the Black Rock Coalition affiliate is called "Spit At It", which was recorded live onto a cassette sometime in 1996 with selector Badawai (Raz Mesina) and Honeychild on vocals.
Needless to say, we're excited Honeychild will bless us with a DJ set AND a special musical performance tomorrow! ...You're coming to the High Desert x James Spooner x #blkgrlswurld punk takeover at MoCADA, right? It's about to be lit.
RSVP now. Link: https://highdesertbk.splashthat.com/
💪🏾✨🎙️❤️🖤💚🎶
#blackmusicmonth #punk #blackpunk #honeychildcoleman #highdesert #spoonersnofun
Meet Philadelphia goth punk band, The Ire, which includes members Maya, Ashley, Daniel and Florence. Catch them live at 5:30pm this Saturday, June 11 for our single day music festival celebrating James Spooner's "The High Desert" graphic novel release.
Link: https://highdesertbk.splashthat.com/
🎶: "Torch Song" by The Ire's 2019 demo album, entitled DEMO.
#highdesert #spoonersnofun #blkgrlswurld #blackpunk #blackmusicmonth #theire
Join us for a special conversation and free film screening (58minutes) 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 award-winning journalist, founder and publisher of The BK Reader, C. Zawadi Morris, and will feature Cynthia Gordy Giwa and Tayo Giwa (Founders of Black-Owned Brooklyn and the directors of this fim), and Kweli Campbell, daughter of Jitu Weusi, a founder of The East.
When: Saturday, June 04, 2022
Time: 6:30–9:30PM
Where: Herbert Von King Park 670 Lafayette Avenue (@ Tompkins Avenue) Brooklyn
LINK: https://theeast.splashthat.com/
♥️✊🏿💪🏾❤️🎬🎦
Whitney Alese aka The Woke Mama (@thereclaimed) explores the Black origin story of Memorial Day celebrations in the US.
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#memorialday #blackhistory #thefirstmemorialday #originstory #americanhistory #gratitude
On our way to #DanceAfrica .... See you there!
All of this. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Reposted from @ykreborn One of the main reasons gun control is so muddled is because white people have historically wanted white supremacy to reign. And before you try to deflect with “but the shooter wasn’t white,” even if a shooter isn’t white, it’s still white supremacy pulling the strings.
Reposting this from a couple of years ago.
White people saying, "We have a right to bear arms!" But then when People of Color say it, they say, "Oh, nonononono, just us, not you."
This kind of thinking goes all the way back to colonial slavery times.
Only white landowners and enslavers had a right to guns at the time, but they even expanded that to poor white people because they didn't want them building coalition with Black and Indigenous folks.
Note how deep the fear of white people is to try to do everything to keep people from organizing coalitions.
That is why gun ownership in the U.S. is intertwined with white supremacy and white privilege.
It's why mass shootings by white gunmen is a pattern, not an exception.
In the push for legislation around gun control, one of the main reasons it's held back is because of white supremacy, anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity.
[video description] me talking in an olive green short-sleeve shirt that says, "People's Free Food Program" with a Black panther on it
#antiracism #antioppression #abolition #classism #capitalism
Rest in peace to American funk and jazz keyboardist and singer Bernard Wright. Godson to Roberta Flack, this Jamaica, Queens, NY native released four albums during his career including his third, "Mr Wright" which features the cookout classic, "Who Do You Love". Released in 1985, the song, which we know and love, peaked at #6 on the Billboard R&B chart that year. He will be missed..Rest well, King. #artsandculture
Join us this Saturday for an in-person artist talk with mixed media artist Kimberly M. Becoat, as she discusses her solo exhibition, URBANIA.
RSVP: https://kmb-artisttalk.splashthat.com
Using Black cultural production as a mechanism for reclamation through the lens of public housing, the artist offers her undeniable social commentary on liberation, cultural preservation, and her insatiable call to restorative play.
URBANIA is on view at MoCADA until June 19.
#urbania2022 #kimberlymbecoat #mocadaconversations #art #artisttalk
This. It's almost Friday!
Reposted from @jolyngc Our ancestors labored enough. Okay?! 🚶🏾♀️
#memtalhealthawareness
#leisureprinciples #mathproblems #leisure #takeanap #rest #ruffles #firstladyofleisure #ladyofleisure #reelsinstagram #reelitfeelit #blackgirlmagic #pinkaesthetic
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of our beloved son of Africa, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. A freedom fighter long before he became the first president of the independent nation of Ghana in 1960, we celebrate his Pan African agenda and wisdom with this speech he delivered at the United Nations conference in Accra. This special event brought together freedom fighters from all over Africa including independent and colonized states to address the way forward for African unity. We salute our forefather in liberation.
🇬🇭💪🏾✊🏿🌍 #africa #ghana #africanunion #kwamenkrumah #freedomfighter
We are excited to announce our newest exhibition, Kimberly M. Becoat: URBANIA, opening this Friday, April 22.
Join us for this thoughtful investigation of urban displacement through the intimate lens of the artist's childhood in public housing. Using Black cultural production as a mechanism for reclamation, viewers are afforded the artist's undeniable social commentary on liberation, cultural preservation, and her insatiable call to restorative play.
On View April 22 - June 19, 2022.
Link: https://mocada.org/kimberly-m-becoat-urbania
The First Kiss of a Black American couple in Film History, entitled “Something Good - Negro Kiss”, a short film by William Selig, 1898. This film stars Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle.
Discovered at the University of Southern California Hugh Hefner Moving Image Archive, this 19th-century nitrate print is a 29-second silent film that may represent the earliest example of African-American intimacy on-screen according to scholars.
♥️♥️♥️ #blackhistory #blacklove
Work in Progress: Artist Theda Sandiford builds the newest addition to her Emotional Baggage Cart series.
