Greetings from the other side of the Atlantic. The coming 3 weeks a delegation of the Black Archives will be strolling through New York and Washington DC to investigate the hidden history of black radicals Otto and Hermie Huiswoud and to get some inspiration and insight from different cultural institutions.😌😌 Otto Huiswoud was born in Surinam and Hermie in British Guyana. Both of them became engaged in radical political circles in Harlem before and during the Harlem Renaissance so we had a great start of our trip with the Harlem Renaissance walking tour. It was amazing to walk through the streets were many historical figures and many of my personal heroes once walked and worked. We visited the place where Marcus Garvey held his first public meeting, the block where Malcolm X gave his first speeches and the place where Langston Hughes wrote his poems.😍😍😍 These are also the streets where the Huiswouds radicalized and became part of an international anti-imperial and anti-colonial revolutionary movement but the tour guide had not heard of them yet, which is not a suprise as their story has remained hidden for most peopel for a long time. #Day 1
The coming days we will be talking to archivists, curators and scholars and we'll be visiting institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library which holds an exhibition about the Black Power movement now. There are several institutions who have decades of experience in documenting, archiving and exhibiting black history and cukture in the US and we are just getring started in Amsterdam. Our research will be used for the exhibition we aim to launch in November this year. We will blog/vlog via the website, the first one is coming up soon. You can still support our crowdfunding campaign via Apura. (For the record, none of the crowdfunding funds will be used for this research trip). Donate via Apura. Oh yeah, we have some free time to do some sightseeing and visit nice places as well...any tips for must see's, do's and eat's are welcome 👌🏾👌🏾 #TheBlackArchivesOnTour #Delegatie #Inspiration By Mitchell Esajas, July 29th 2017
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MEDEDELING ! Tijdens de lockdown, is The Black Archives gesloten tot 19 januari 2021
De expositie is van donderdag t/m zaterdag te bezoeken. Om de veiligheid en gezondheid te waarborgen dienen alle bezoekers de 1,5 meter richtlijnen te volgen. Neem contact op via contactformulier voor rondleidingen buiten het programma. ANNOUNCEMENT ! Due to the lockdown, The Black Archives is closed till 19th January 2021 Every other Saturday you can join a tour in The Black Archives. You can visit our exhibition from Thursday to Saturday, see current visiting hours and tours on our page 'Tours & Exhibition'. Check the website for our event schedule or contact us for more info the contact form. |
(Rolstoel)toegankelijkheid/Accessibility
Momenteel beschikt The Black Archives niet over een speciale ingang en lift voor personen met een fysieke beperking en voor rolstoelgebruikers. Er is een traplift bij grotere evenement bij ingang 19A. Wij zijn bewust dat het gebouw niet volledig toegankelijk is. Wil u bijdragen om het gebouw wel toegankelijk te maken? Stuur een mail naar info@nucnet.nl w/ 'toegankelijkheid gebouw’.
At this moment, The Black Archives does not have a special entrance or lift for person of disability. There is a stairlift available during our events at Zeeburgerdijk 19A. We are aware that the building is not accessible, but we are currently looking for funding. Do you want to contribute to making the building more accessible? Send a mail to info@nucnet.nl w/ 'accessibility building’. |