Winter in America | The Speakeasy - Bold, Black & Brilliant: The Baldwin Edition
April 3, 2024
6:00-8:00PM
Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th St, Oakland, CA
Free, Donations Encouraged
In conjunction with traveling exhibition “Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin” works by Sabrina Nelson
Curated by Ashara Ekundayo & Omo Misha
Mc’d by Oakland’s Poet Laureate with special performances by Tongo Eisen Martin, Darrius Simpson, Zourhair Mussa, & Tonya Foster.
In community partnership with: African-American Museum & Library, Oakland Alameda County Behavioral Health, Poet Laureate of Oakland, BAMBD, CDC
& a conversation between Dr. Tonya Foster and Cat Brooks moderated by Ashara Ekundayo - the Poetics of Baldwin & Black Interiority in Modernity