upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
The Great Migration Project is a series of exploratory audio and video works that celebrates the historic passage of African Americans to the North. A nationally renowned team of artists – Julie Dash, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lonnie Graham, Tina Morton and Mendi+Keith Obadike – will explore five institutions that were created or reformed during the period of the first Great Migration. The five media artworks commissioned by Scribe Video Center reveal the ties between the agricultural world the migrants left behind and the new industrial world they helped create.
Exhibition at Slought Gallery (4017 Walnut St)
Opening Reception Wednesday, August 3 at 7:00 PM, show closes August 12
Artists' Talkback with Mendi + Keith Obadike and Lonnie Graham
Friday, August 5 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Slought Gallery
Premiere of The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930)
Saturday, August 6 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
2016 BlackStar Film Festival
International House of Philadelphia
$12 general admission, $8 students/seniors, $6 IHP, BlackStar, and Scribe members
