Event information
edit- Date: Friday, February 17, 2017
- Time: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Location: MoMA New York
- Address: MoMA New York Office, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, Room 6058, New York, NY 10105
- Subway: B, D, E, M, 7th Ave
- Hashtag: #AfroCROWD,
- Twitter: #AfroCROWD
- Details:
- Help write her digital history!
- Join AfroCROWD and Black Lunch Table to make history and celebrate the "Hidden Figures" of art. You are invited to the Women Artists of the African Diaspora seminar with AfroCROWD and the Black Lunch Table at the Annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia conference at the Museum of Modern Art. The event is free. A free reception is provided for this jam packed day full of panels and discussions, editathons and seminars about the world of Wikipedia and the work to get more women artists featured in the internet's 7th most visited site and leading knowledge resource.
Doors open for the breakout session at 1:30pm.
Join AfroCROWD and the Black Lunch Table for the Women Artists of the African Diaspora seminar at 2pm-3pm with an editing session to follow immediately after. We look forward to seeing you there.
Follow us on Twitter @AfroCROWDIt and on Facebook and Instagram @AfroCROWD for more! All are welcome. Feel free to invite friends and share. Please bring your laptop. Please click here to register for a Wikipedia account ahead of the event. The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artist and UNC Assistant Professor of Art Jina Valentine and New York-based, media and social-practice artist, Heather Hart. First staged in 2005 at the preeminent artist residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, this project augments the dominant history of contemporary art with the testimonies of living, working, African American artists. Head to theblacklunchtable.com for more information. AfroCROWD (Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia) seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements. Follow us on Twitter @AfroCROWDit for the latest on this and other great events.
- The event will encourage editing entries about notable African descended women artists.
- Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is an initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
- We have held monthly editathons with an array of organizations and institutions in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
- Beginners welcome.
- All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
- Light refreshments will be offered.
- Who should attend: Everyone with an interest in Black history and expanding the diversity of knowledge on Wikipedia, and regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia. The public is welcome to this event.
- RSVP: [1]
If you have a laptop, please bring it with you!