National Center of Afro-American Artists

Black Nativity Evening Performance
2024-12-21 20:00 (America/New_York) | Paramount Center, 559 Washington St, Boston, MA, 02111, United States

Black Nativity Matinee Performance
2024-12-22 15:30 | Paramount Center, 559 Washington St, Boston, MA, 02111, United States

Artists Speak Projecting Peace
2025-02-23 15:00 - 17:00 | National Center of Afro-American Artists, 3000 Walnut Avenue, Roxbury, MA, 02119, United States
The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) announces ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE, a bold extension of the current exhibition CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK.
Free and open to the public, CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE is in collaboration with ILLUMINUS and FPoint Productions. It is comprised of projected images from the exhibition intermixed with video clips of artists talking about causes of violence and solutions. It intends to guide communities toward social healing. The projections will be on the exterior facade of the museum at dusk thus providing one of the earliest grand scale, artistic screening events on a Roxbury building. It will be a must see!
Preceding the outdoor screening, CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE will present Love, Queens Who Suffer From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, an original choreo-poem written and compiled by Jamila Batts Capitman and Heather Thomas. Directed by Capitman, Love, Queens was inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. It explores the impact of violence on communities through dramatic, poetic monologues. A discussion with the playwright, artists and commentary by Chaplain Clementina Chéry of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute follows.
The exhibition and related programs are funded through the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-Monument INITIATIVE with a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
