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Season of Black Art & San Francisco Black Film Festival Celebrate Black Film & Theatre with EXPRESS YOURSELF
The event will take place tonight, December 9 from 6-10 p.m
By: Blair Ingenthron Dec. 09, 2023
It's lights cameras and action as The African American Arts and Cultural Complex, home from which over 200 emerging and unsung artists launched the new arts series, “The Season of Black Art (SOBA), focuses of Black Film in partnership with the San Francisco Black Film Festival along with a call to action for stories and an offer of free family portraits to capture the importance of family during the holiday season.
Launched on Sunday October 29th. “Season of Black Art” continues monthly events through February 2024. The African American Arts and Cultural Complex, co-directed by sisters Melorra Green and Melonie Green, affectionately known as “The Twins,” has created an atmosphere of homecoming and housewarming to share the renovations that have occurred at the center with its signature new “Season of Black Art.”
“Season of Black Art,” is directed by San Francisco native, Rodney Earl Jackson Jr., who co-founded the award-winning production company, SFBATCO, San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company, known for creating new art and cultural collaborations like “The New Roots Theater Festival, founded by Jackson.
The purpose of the series is to give an elevated platform to uplift unsung artists whose art otherwise would have been overlooked had it not been for Mayor London Breed's visionary creation of the Dream Keepers Initiative.
On Saturday, December 9, 6-10 p.m., the public is invited to join Rodney Earl Jackson Jr., Director of “The Season of Black Art (SOBA) ; Melorra Green and Melonie Green, Executive Directors of AAACC; Cree Ray, third-generation Executive Director of the San Francisco Black Film Festival; filmmakers and theatrical performers as “Season of Black Art” Celebrates Black Film & Theatre: EXPRESS YOURSELF.
“The San Francisco Black Film Festival is excited to partner with AAACC and the Season of Black Art as we continue our year-long celebration, “ said Cree Ray, third-generation Executive Director of the San Francisco Black Film Festival. “It's like being at home. My grandmother Ave Montague who founded the festival had film screenings and even her Juneteenth Inner Beauty Pageant kickoff right here at the African American Arts & Culture Center. I am continuing the trajectory started by my grandmother and carried on my father, Kali O'Ray,” added Ray.
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