 
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - Flip Flops, Lemon Drops and Jell-O-Shots Party benefiting Jack and Jill of America, Inc., at the home of Carl Hackney (Oakland) Pictured (1): Nina Greenwood, Cynthia Roy (Chair), Robin Washington, Terri Dunn Dawkins, Erica Dennings, Millicent Edwards and Teresa Cox
Pictured (2): Cynthia Roy (Chair), Nicole Wilkins, Regene Ross, Pamela Gamble, Rebecca Clark, Ceara Threets, Deidre Joyner, Gayle Threets, Bennett Payne, Anne Payne, Megan Simmons and Carl Simmons
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 May 12-27 | African-American Art & Culture Complex | SFSet on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s, A Raisin in the Sun follows the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of a black family. Determined to live a better life, they believe that they can succeed, and retain their dignity, in the harsh and changing world around them if they stick together and resolve to no longer defer their dreams. [more] |
 May 17-20 | Concourse Exhibition Center | SFThe Bay Area's premier contemporary and modern art fair will feature 70 highly reputable galleries from around the globe, bringing some of the world's most intriguing artists and galleries to San Francisco. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, artMRKT will create an ideal context for the discovery, exploration and acquisition of art. [more] |
Tia Fuller Quartet 
 Thur, May 17 | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | SFTouring and recording with superstar Beyonc� has put this saxophonist at the center of pop music, reaching millions of listeners with her concise, beautifully crafted solos. Catch her performance along with a Pre-Concert Talk that begins one hour before show time. [more] |
Jazz on the Plaza
Thur, May 17 | The Cathedral of Christ the Light | Oakland
Enjoy the smooth jazz sounds of Lloyd Gregory & Friends on the Cathedral Plaza, overlooking lovely Lake Merritt. Lloyd is a well established classic jazz guitarist on the Bay Area music scene for several decades - smooth, soulful, melodic...with R&B roots. He has performed onstage with Rodney Franklin, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Gerald Albright, Lenny Williams, Freda Payne and The Dells. [more]
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Bay Area Black Comedy Competition
 May 18-20 | Yoshi's | Oakland
Hosted by Don "DC" Curry & featuring Over 60 of the Funniest Stand-up Comedians From All Across the Country.
The Bay Area Black Comedy Competition (BABCCF) was initially created in 1986 by theatre artist, poet and aspiring comedian Tony Spires, as a means of leveling the playing field for African American and other minority Bay Area stand-up comedians. From its humble roots, it has evolved into the largest, longest-running, live showcase of urban comedians in the world. The BABCCF has also become a major networking convention and a national proving ground for talented up and coming stand-ups of all races and ethnic backgrounds. [more]
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Updated May 17 - Over 100 listings!
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Tell Me More | Scholarly Voices from the Diaspora
 Sat, May 19 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFNoliwe Rooks presents Race, Reform and Urban Education. In a recent OpEd, she argued that the Nation's educational priorities should be based on strategies and models that have been proven to work over a period of time, as opposed to what a handful of people seem to think of as good ideas. [more] |
Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
 Sat, May 19 | San Antonio Park | Oakland
Join us for the 12th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival! There will be dancers, poets, mc's vocalists, dj's, live music and a live painting! [more] |
Family Programs | Folktales Across the African Diaspora
 Sat, May 19 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFJoin Awele Makebe for Anansi: From West Africa to the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. Awele has mesmerized audiences around the world. She is an award winning and internationally known storyteller, recording artist, educator and she's also a Community Producer of Cultural Programs in San Francisco. [more] |
Ohnedaruth: Music...St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
 Sun, May 20 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFThe St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church provides a rhythm section and lead horns which Support the Voices of Compassion (choir), as together they seek to invoke the Spirit of God through Sound praise. The sound praise consists of the Coltrane Liturgy, which combines the Divine Liturgy Of the African Orthodox Church, and the Twenty-third Psalm, with the melodies, harmonies and Rhythms of Saint John Coltrane's masterpiece: A Love Supreme. [more] |
Denise Perrier in the Lush Life Gallery
 Sun, May 20 | Jazz Heritage Center | SFVocalist extraordinaire Denise Perrier and friends will dazzle you for an evening of music. Often called "The Voice with a heart", Denise has been performing jazz standards in the Bay Area, nationally and in Latin America, Asia and Europe for more than thirty years. Swing to Denise's rich contralto voice against the backdrop of the vibrant art of renowned JoeSam on exhibit. [more] |
Educator Workshop: Language Arts & History...Slave Narratives FREE
 Sun, May 20 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFPlease join us at the Museum of the African Diaspora for a FREE curriculum workshop for Bay Area K-12 teachers and educators. In this workshop we will use our "Slavery Passages" exhibit to examine first-person narratives of enslaved African men and women - spanning three continents and three centuries. [more] |
MIgrations of the Sacred: Spiritual Practices...Wade Nobles
 Sat, Jun 2 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFDr. Wade Nobles will discuss the concept of Sakhu Sheti/Djaer and interrogate the notion of "sacred space" as "spiritness" in the very being of African people across the diaspora. He will discuss the assault on the African spirit as spirit defilement and the colonization of psychic space resulting in a shattered African consciousness and a fractured Black identity. [more] |
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TELL ME MORE | Scholarly Voices from the Diaspora
 Sat, Jun 9 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFJohn Leonard Burris presents Trayvon Martin and Racial Profiling: Real or imaginary? Burris is an American civil rights attorney, based in Oakland, California, known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs. He briefly represented Rodney King in his suit against the Los Angeles Police Department and is most recently noted for filing a civil suit over the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant. He has appeared as a legal commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and other cable and local television networks. [more] |
San Francisco Black Film Festival
 Jun 15-17 | Lorraine Hansberry Theatre | SFCome celebrate African American cinema and the African cultural Diaspora as a diverse collection of films are showcased from emerging and established filmmakers. [more] |
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EXHIBITIONS and PRODUCTIONS
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The Art of JoeSame Abstraction! 
On view thru July 11 | Jazz Heritage Center | SFA new exhibit in the Lush Life Gallery with internationally renowned artist JoeSam. Located inside the JAzz Heritage Center at 1320 Fillmore Street. View the exhibition, then visit adjacent Yoshi's or 1300 Fillmore at the corner for drinks! [more] |
The Exodus. The Migration. The Stand 
May 17-Oct 11 | AAACC | SFThis exhibition is about the Black San Franciscans of yesteryear, their departure, and the story of those who remain. According to the 2010 census, the African American population dropped to 3.9% which is devastating to a community that once thrived in various neighborhoods of San Francisco. Art will be used to interpret what this decline in population means for a community and a city that prides itself on its cultural diversity. [more] |
Mark Bradford @ YBCA
On view thru May 27 | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | SF
MacArthur "genius" award winning artist Mark Bradford (b. 1961) is best known for large-scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials. Often incorporating references to the social conditions of a particular location, these works offer an unusual and highly individual examination of the economies that structure urban society in the United States. [more] FREE first Tuesday of each month: 12 noon - 8 pm
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Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction! Celebrating Bay Area Artists  On view thru Sept 23 | Museum of the African Diaspora | SFThis launches MoAD's Curator's Choice exhibition series by featuring nine influential Bay Area artists who over several decades, starting in the 1970's, consistently chose abstraction over figuration as their preferred approach to art making. [more] |
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