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SUMMARY:Black on Black on Black on Black
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition will feature Black faculty in the School of Art & Design through the lens of the Black Quantum Future as proposed by Philadelphia-based activists and theorists Rasheeda Phillips and Camae Ayewa. The collaborative exhibition will explore Black identity\, collectivity\, positionality\, healing\, innovation\, and education as explored via a multi-leveled/multi-dimensional immersive\, critical\, and openly reflective space. \nThis re-visioning of the Faculty Exhibition recognizes the legacy of Black knowledge and production in ways that supports the ongoing efforts by the School of Art & Design\, Krannert Art Museum\, College of Fine and Applied Arts\, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign towards addressing and celebrating our unique diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. \nA lecture series\, community conversations\, sound installation\, and a catalogue is planned in conjunction with the exhibition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-curated by Patrick Earl Hammie\, Stacey Robinson\, Blair Ebony Smith\, and Nekita Thomas \nCosponsored by Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center and the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Opening events produced in partnership with Pygmalion Festival. \nSupported by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund/College of Fine & Applied Arts\, School of Art & Design\, and the James and Beth Armsey Fund.
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SUMMARY:Nabil Ayers at the Krannert Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Nabil Ayers will be at the Krannert Art Museum on September 24 as part of Pygmalion. Please visit the Pygmalion website for information about purchasing tickets. \nNabil Ayers is the President of Beggars Group USA\, where he has released albums by many GRAMMY Award-winning artists. Ayers has written about music and race for publications including The New York Times\, NPR\, Rolling Stone\, and GQ. He currently resides in Brooklyn\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MY LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1971\, a white\, Jewish\, former ballerina chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers\, fully expecting and agreeing to his absenteeism. In MY LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE\, their son Nabil Ayers recounts a life spent living with the aftermath of that decision\, and his journey to build an identity of his own despite his father’s absence. Even though Nabil has only met him a handful of times\, his father has been a steady influence in his life. Like Roy\, Nabil became deeply involved in the music industry\, first as a musician\, and currently as the President of Beggars Group USA\, where he has worked with musicians such as The National\, St. Vincent\, and Big Thief. The title of his memoir is a homage to the opening lyric from his father’s 1976 song\, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine\,” which has always followed Nabil as both a painful and hopeful reminder of his connection to his father– reflecting the passion and ambition that they share as well as the close relationship that they don’t. \nIn Nabil’s search to connect with his father\, he ultimately discovers the existence of several half- siblings as well as a paternal ancestor who was enslaved. Following these connections\, Nabil meets and befriends the descendant of the plantation owner\, which\, strangely\, paves the way for him to make meaningful connections with the extended family he never knew existed. A thoughtful meditation on biracial identity\, intimacy\, and finding true community; MY LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE upends our conventional understanding of family and redefines its boundaries.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/nabil-ayers-at-the-krannert-art-museum/
LOCATION:Krannert Art Museum\, 500 E. Peabody Drive\, Champaign\, Illinois\, 61820
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SUMMARY:Ayana Contreras at 25 O'Clock Brewing Co.
DESCRIPTION:Ayana Contreras will be at 25 O’Clock Brewing Co. as part of Pygmalion\, in partnership with the Urbana Arts + Culture Program. Please visit the Pygmalion website for information about purchasing tickets. \nAyana Contreras is a cultural historian\, memory worker\, radio DJ and archivist.  An avid collector with over 8000 vintage vinyl records\, she hosts the Reclaimed Soul program on WBEZ and Vocalo Radio in Chicago. She is also a columnist for DownBeat magazine\, and her writings have been published in Chicago Review\, Oxford American and Bandcamp Daily among other publications. Her book on Post-Civil Rights Era cultural history\, titled Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago\, was published December 2021 through University of Illinois Press.  \n 
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/ayana-contreras-at-25-oclock-brewing-co/
LOCATION:25 O’Clock Brewing Co.\, 208 W. Griggs St.\, Urbana\, Illinois\, 61801
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SUMMARY:Screening of Afro-Punk and Conversation with Director James Spooner
DESCRIPTION:James Spooner will be at 25 O’Clock Brewing Co. as part of Pygmalion\, in partnership with the Urbana Arts + Culture Program. Please visit the Pygmalion website for information about purchasing tickets. \nJames Spooner is an accomplished tattoo artist\, illustrator\, and filmmaker. He directed the seminal documentary Afro-Punk. Spooner is also the co-founder of the Afro-punk Festival. Spooner’s work has appeared in NPR\, Vice\, The Village Voice\, The New Yorker\, Vibe\, Fader\, MTV\, NBC News\, and Variety. He is an ongoing guest curator for the Broad Museum in Los Angeles\, and previously programmed for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. \nABOUT THE HIGH DESERT \nA Memoir by James Spooner \nFrom James Spooner\, the creator of Afro-Punk\, comes a stunning graphic memoir of his coming-of-age in a miserable desert town in California in the early 1990s: THE HIGH DESERT (Harper; on sale May 17\, 2022; $26.00\, 368 pages; ISBN 978-0-358-65911-2). THE HIGH DESERT is the story of a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity\, racism\, clumsy teen love\, and belonging—and the story of a search for salvation and community through punk. \nTeenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in the Apple Valley\, California town after years away. The one silver lining—new school\, new you\, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging\, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microagressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race\, acutely aware of his Blackness\, James doesn’t know where he fits until he meets Ty\, a young Black punk who introduces him to the school outsiders—skaters\, unhappy young rebels\, caught up in the punk groundswell sweeping the country. \nA haircut\, a few Sex Pistols\, Misfits\, and Black Flag records later: Suddenly\, James has friends\, romantic prospects\, and knows the difference between a bass and a guitar. But this desolate landscape hides brutal\, building undercurrents: a classmate overdoses\, a friend must prove himself to his white supremacist brother and the local Aryan brotherhood through a show of violence. Everything and everyone are set to collide at one of the year’s biggest shows in town. \nWeaving in the Black roots of punk rock and a vivid interlude in the thriving eighties DIY and punk scene in New York’s East Village\, THE HIGH DESERT is an engaging and moving graphic memoir of a budding punk\, artist\, and activist.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/screening-of-afro-punk/
LOCATION:25 O’Clock Brewing Co.\, 208 W. Griggs St.\, Urbana\, Illinois\, 61801
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