Saturday, November 10th, BGS Museum Trip: MOMA - Charles White Retrospective

What’s up Blerds! Let’s check out this amazing retrospective on the art of legendary African-American artist, Charles White at the Museum of Modern Art.https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3930?locale=en RSVP HERE Get your tickets here – https://www.moma.org/tickets/select Afterward, we’ll try and find a bit to eat, perhaps at the delicious Pio Pio, one of our favorites! See you there! “Art must be an integral part of the struggle,” Charles White insisted. “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was unwavering. Using his virtuoso skills as a draftsman, printmaker, and painter, White developed his style and approach over time to address shifting concerns and new audiences. “Charles White: A Retrospective is the first major museum survey devoted to the artist in over 30 years. The exhibition charts White’s full career—from the 1930s through his premature death in 1979—with over 100 works, including drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, illustrated books, record covers and archival materials.”

Sunday, Dec. 2 - BGS Bookclub: An Unkindness of Ghosts

We want to give everybody lots of time to get a copy (many available at the library,) and read our next exciting Book Club selection, An Kindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. We’ll be meeting at the Brazen Head on Sunday, December 2nd to discuss it. RSVP HERE – https://www.meetup.com/Black-Geek-Society-Nerds-of-Color/events/255271439/ See ya there, and remember donations are always welcome. https://secure.meetup.com/Black-Geek-Society-Nerds-of-Color/contribute/ Check out the reviews… “Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world. While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note polemic, the fully rounded characters bring nuance and genuine pathos to this amazing debut.”–Library Journal, Starred Review “Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine…Stunning.”–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Infused with the spirit of Octavia Butler and loaded with meaning for the present day, An Unkindness of Ghosts will appeal to a wide variety of readers. Solomon’s impassioned, speculative, literary book is sorely needed on library shelves.”–Booklist

What’s up home skillet?!

I’m not one for schooling out on St. Patty’s Day, but this looks like the jam you don’t wanna miss!
Featuring the Diabolical Biz Markie on the set, this is an 80’s vs.90’s hip-hop party! Whaaaaaaaat???

We wanna roll in there with a crew, so make sure you come with us!

Tickets are just $15, and go on sale this Wednesday 1/24, so get ’em while they’re hot https://www.facebook.com/events/1779208538791225/

See you there, sucker MC’s!

Ok y’all this is a SAVE THE DATE for the most anticipated movie of 2018, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther! Get your dashiki’s and kufi’s ready and join us for this groundbreaking Afrofuturist masterpiece and join us afterward to party!

I’ll let you know as soon as tickets are available so RSVP now to get my email alert!

RSVP HERE!

Excelsior!

Greetings True Believers! Join us this month for our next Book Club selection, Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorofor! 

There are plenty of copies available at local libraries and cheap on Amazon, so you’ll have plenty of time to join us.

We’ll meet on January 21st to discuss it at a yet to be chosen location, (let us know if you have any suggestions, preferably a bar or coffee shop, not a restaurant.)

RSVP HERE!

Excelsior…

Affectionately dubbed “the Nigerian Harry Potter,” Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one’s place in the world.

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. Soon she’s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?

“There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics.

” —Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea

“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak

“I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it—until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor.” —Whoopi Goldberg

“Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor’s work is wonderful!” —Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

“Jam-packed with mythological wonders.” —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

“Okorafor’s imagination is stunning.” —The New York Times Book Review

Greetings True Believers,

This month’s book will be a modern classic of Caribbean literature, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, a stunning novelization of the real-life story of the first woman, an African-American, accused of witchcraft at the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

We’ll be trying out a new location for this month’s meeting, hopefully, something a little quieter, so RSVP and stay tuned!

RSVP HERE!

“This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls “a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary ‘Nanny of the maroons,’” who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.

CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.”

Greetings True Believers!
This month’s book is The Changeling by Victor LaValle!

Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:00 PM
Bed-Vyne Cocktail
305 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY

 RSVP HERE!

Available in many formats from both the Brooklyn and New York Public Library, as well as many cheap used copies on Amazon, or free as an audiobook with your subscription to Audible.

Join us at Bed-Vyne to discuss the book, and get there early for the many delicious barbecue spots in the area.

“If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

“A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness. The Changeling is a mesmerizing, monumental work.”—Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

A summer reading pick by The New York Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Vulture • PopSugar • Publishers Weekly

“LaValle’s haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Like a woke Brothers Grimm, his clever new spin on the ages-old changeling myth is a modern fairy tale for the Trump era.”—USA Today (four out of four stars)

“Victor LaValle’s fabulist ode to fatherhood and fairy tales offers a new take on themes as old as time.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

Excelsior!

What can go wrong with a little light, interracial dating horror/humor? Well, we’re going to find out, with Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out!
And this time we’re going, for a change of pace, we’re going to check out Alamo Drafthouse, downtown Brooklyn, whose prices are surprisingly reasonable.
So if I were you, I’d get your tickets now because this is sure to sell out. I just got mine, I’m in row 4, hope to see you there!

RSVP @ https://www.meetup.com/Black-Geek-Society-Nerds-of-Color/events/237691186/

Show Details: GET OUT Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 08:00 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn – Theater 7
https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/get-out

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