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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Programs & Events | Exhibitions | MoAD Picks | Get The Deal | Get Involved! |
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| FREE MUSEUM ADMISSIONS...MoAD and MORE | |
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Member for a Day
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Kick off the year with a freebie! Weekends thru February MoAD partners with theREGISTRY! Business, community and organization leaders...join theREGISTRY and receive a FREE weekend museum pass thru January! Enjoy our current exhibition and feature programs. Also register for FREE passes to ACT's Clybourne Park. [more] |
MoAD IN THE NEWS |
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Your Kids Have A Dream: Family Fun For Martin Luther King Day [GloboMaestro] MoAD, as its known, has been big on interactive education since it opened in 2005, and this year's MLK Day of Service is no exception. The family-focused program will feature a "What is Your Dream?" project that invites children to create their "vision board" - collages of pictures and images. There will also be a rotation of films about the civil rights leader, plus a performance of Afro-Latin grooves courtesy of Bobi Cespedes. [more] |
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Bay Area Young Professionals Host Holiday Party to Support the Museum of African Diaspora [Black Gives Back] On Saturday, December 4th, 2010 at a private estate in Oakland, The Vanguard hosted its Holiday Launch Party. The purpose of this event was to introduce San Francisco Bay Area professionals to The Vanguard, a young professionals group that supports and raises funds for the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. The evening was filled with southern cuisine, art, a silent auction, spoken word performances and a special performance by the Bay Area's own Martin Luther. [more] |
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FREE! Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Saturday - Family Day | Monday - What Is Your Dream?
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IN CONVERSATION Wendel White and Dr. Leigh Raiford Friday, January 21 | 6pm-8pm: Join us for an evening of conversation between Wendel White and Dr. Leigh Raiford co-presented with the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Wendel White is showing his Manifest project at CIIS, a collection of images that are representations of objects, documents, and images concerned with the issues of slavery and freedom for African Americans. Dr. Raiford is Associate Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests include race, gender and visual culture with an emphasis on film and photography, race and racial formations of the United States; black feminism; memory studies; and black popular culture. [more] |
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WORKSHOP: Family History with Lisa Lee Genealogy: Interviewing Techniques
will help you determine whom to interview, how to get folks to open up to you, the best ways to deal with family secrets, how to record the interviews, and even ways to find relatives on Facebook. All of these workshops are useful to beginners as well as more advanced researchers. [more] |
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Exhibition Closing Final Weekend. Get in before it's gone! You still have the opportunity to view our popular exhibition Art/Object: Re-Contextualizing African Art thru the 17th. A captivating display not to be missed, the exhibition includes powerful masks, costumes, sculptures and objects of everyday use that show through multimedia recreated environments, photographs and archival footage how African objects from public and private collections were used in their original settings often to mark important rituals and ceremonies. [more] |
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FREE! Opening Reception Textural Rhythms • Friday, January 28: Be our guest for the free Opening Reception of our next exhibition, Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition, Contemporary African American Quilts. The exhibition unites two of the most well known and popular artistic forms in African American culture, jazz and quilts. Join us for an evening of wine and hors d'oeuvres with music provided by the Berkeley Jazzschool. Also stay tuned for The Vanguard's special Exhibition Opening Party. Opening Reception sponsored by Morgan Stanley. • Coming in February: January will come and go before you know it, and that means Black History Month is just around the corner. Join us for book signings, performances, workshops, film screenings and Family Day. |
INSIDE MoAD |
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Inside MoAD
Interested? Contact guides@moadsf.org today! • The holiday shopping season is over but you can still save up to 15% on selected items throughout the month of January at the museum store. |
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CALENDAR: Bay Area African American Arts/Culture This new e-calendar, launched Fall 2010, captures selected arts and cultural events from throughout the Bay Area. Published bi-monthly by michaelD. Communications, powered by VIPLineup. [view listings] |
GET THE DEAL |
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FACILITY RENTAL: Museum of the African Diaspora Vanguard Members: Host your next product launch, campaign kick-off, book signing, or film screening at MoAD. Vanguard members and their associates receive a 10% discount. |
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DINING: 1300 Fillmore San Francisco A
restaurant and lounge that draws on the rich cultural history of San
Francisco's Fillmore Jazz District. The restaurant serves "Soulful
American" cuisine, accompanied by a list of the finest California wines. Happy Hour: 50% off lounge menu special pre-fix $35 menu [more] |
Marketing/Communications Volunteers and interns needed. Social media, graphics, event management, public relations, strategy, community engagement. Email marketing@moadsf.org. |
Join! MoAD members enjoy free or reduced admission to our museum opening events and ongoing programs. Members can also take advantage of complimentary guest passes, and more. Join MoAD! | Donate! Support this worthy organization in its work of providing excellent exhibitions, public and education programs to our global and local communities by donating today. [more] |
Come! MoAD is located in the heart of San Francisco's Arts District at Mission and Third. 685 Mission Street - 415.358.7200
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