Wed November 11, 2020
Angela Davis and Isaac Julien in Conversation, with Sarah Lewis
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Wed, Nov 11, 6-7pm Pacific time
Join iconic activist, educator, and author Angela Davis and artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial justice, moderated by scholar Sarah Lewis. The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 6pm PST and is co-presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the San Francisco Public Library in conjunction with Julien's immersive, ten-screen film installation "Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019)" about the life and legacy of the famed abolitionist, on view through March 2021 at McEvoy Arts. With excerpts of his speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus, 'Lessons' offers a contemplative, poetic journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist's hour have yet to be learned. The conversation is free to attend with registration.
Isaac Julien's pioneering artistic practice incorporates the moving image, photography, & installation to create open-ended narratives through physical and sensorial immersion. Angela Davis, who helped popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," now urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems. The program's moderator, Sarah Lewis, is associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and founder of the Vision and Justice Project. This event is one in a series of online talks that further consider the ideas explored in 'Lessons.' The exhibition includes selections from the McEvoy family Collection curated by Mark Nash and a resonant daily video program, 'New Labor Movements' that explores contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness curated by Leila Weefur. Admission to the exhibition is free with a reservation.
The media partner for 'Lessons of the Hour' is frieze Magazine.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
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Join iconic activist, educator, and author Angela Davis and artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial justice, moderated by scholar Sarah Lewis. The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 6pm PST and is co-presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the San Francisco Public Library in conjunction with Julien's immersive, ten-screen film installation "Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019)" about the life and legacy of the famed abolitionist, on view through March 2021 at McEvoy Arts. With excerpts of his speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus, 'Lessons' offers a contemplative, poetic journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist's hour have yet to be learned. The conversation is free to attend with registration.
Isaac Julien's pioneering artistic practice incorporates the moving image, photography, & installation to create open-ended narratives through physical and sensorial immersion. Angela Davis, who helped popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," now urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems. The program's moderator, Sarah Lewis, is associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and founder of the Vision and Justice Project. This event is one in a series of online talks that further consider the ideas explored in 'Lessons.' The exhibition includes selections from the McEvoy family Collection curated by Mark Nash and a resonant daily video program, 'New Labor Movements' that explores contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness curated by Leila Weefur. Admission to the exhibition is free with a reservation.
The media partner for 'Lessons of the Hour' is frieze Magazine.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Wed, Nov 11, 6-7pm Pacific time
Join iconic activist, educator, and author Angela Davis and artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial justice, moderated by scholar Sarah Lewis. The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 6pm PST and is co-presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the San Francisco Public Library in conjunction with Julien's immersive, ten-screen film installation "Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019)" about the life and legacy of the famed abolitionist, on view through March 2021 at McEvoy Arts. With excerpts of his speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus, 'Lessons' offers a contemplative, poetic journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist's hour have yet to be learned. The conversation is free to attend with registration.
Isaac Julien's pioneering artistic practice incorporates the moving image, photography, & installation to create open-ended narratives through physical and sensorial immersion. Angela Davis, who helped popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," now urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems. The program's moderator, Sarah Lewis, is associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and founder of the Vision and Justice Project. This event is one in a series of online talks that further consider the ideas explored in 'Lessons.' The exhibition includes selections from the McEvoy family Collection curated by Mark Nash and a resonant daily video program, 'New Labor Movements' that explores contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness curated by Leila Weefur. Admission to the exhibition is free with a reservation.
The media partner for 'Lessons of the Hour' is frieze Magazine.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
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Join iconic activist, educator, and author Angela Davis and artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial justice, moderated by scholar Sarah Lewis. The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 6pm PST and is co-presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the San Francisco Public Library in conjunction with Julien's immersive, ten-screen film installation "Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019)" about the life and legacy of the famed abolitionist, on view through March 2021 at McEvoy Arts. With excerpts of his speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus, 'Lessons' offers a contemplative, poetic journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist's hour have yet to be learned. The conversation is free to attend with registration.
Isaac Julien's pioneering artistic practice incorporates the moving image, photography, & installation to create open-ended narratives through physical and sensorial immersion. Angela Davis, who helped popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," now urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems. The program's moderator, Sarah Lewis, is associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and founder of the Vision and Justice Project. This event is one in a series of online talks that further consider the ideas explored in 'Lessons.' The exhibition includes selections from the McEvoy family Collection curated by Mark Nash and a resonant daily video program, 'New Labor Movements' that explores contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness curated by Leila Weefur. Admission to the exhibition is free with a reservation.
The media partner for 'Lessons of the Hour' is frieze Magazine.
Free
Presented by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
show less
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