Hutchins Center Calendar

Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Weekly Newsletter:  Monday, November 27th  – Sunday, December 3rd, 2017          THIS WEEK: November 27th, 6:00pm Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar, Harvard University The New Annotated African American Folktales Massachusetts Historical Society Thursday, November 30th, 12:00pm Sana Camara, Truman State University Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile  Room 117, Andover Hall  NEXT WEEK:
Tuesday, December 5th, 10:00am Moderated by Samantha Power,Harvard University Rwandan Women Rising: Lessons for Global Stability Taubman Building, Nye A, 5th Floor	Tuesday, December 5th, 12:00pm James Almeida, Harvard University Minting Slavery: Labor and Race in Potosí, 1570-1800  Hutchins Center Seminar Room
Thursday, December 7th, 4:00pm Holiday Party w/ the Center for African Studies and the Department of African and African American Studies CGIS-South Concourse

GALLERIES:
WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place On view through December 21st, 2017 Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA Open: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm Closed: Sunday, Monday, and on official Harvard University holidays	Lynn Davis: Africa (1997-1998) On view through December 3rd, 2017 Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA Open: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm Closed: Weekends and on official Harvard University holidays
LATER THIS SEMESTER:
December 12th, 5:30pm. Discussion of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King's Horseman and We must Set Forth at Dawn with Awam Amkpa and Emmanuel Iduma. In conjunction with the Cooper Gallery exhibition, WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place.  Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Register here. December 13th, 12:00pm. Curator’s Tour with Awam Amkpa. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA. Register here. December 14th, 6:00pm. Director’s Tour with Vera Ingrid Grant. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA. Register here.

SAVE THE DATE: Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence Harvard University, March 22-24, 2018 In partnership with New York University                                                  MORE INFO    ART TOURS:

The Art of the Hutchins Center Fridays at 1:00pm    Join Dr. Sheldon Cheek, Senior Curatorial Associate for The Image of the Black Archive & Library, as he leads a guided tour of The Art of the Hutchins Center.  Our collection includes work by Isaac Julien, Romare Bearden, Lyle Ashton Harris, Suesan Stovall, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, and an extensive assortment of black film posters. The tour ends with a visit to the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, a vital and unique space at Harvard. 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138.  Tours begin in the reception area on floor 3R.     Cooper Gallery Exhibition Tours Saturdays at 1:00pm The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art offers weekly exhibition tours by staff on Saturdays at 1 pm. Space is limited to 15 and on a first come, first served basis. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA

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