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SUMMARY:Collaging with Ayanna Legros
DESCRIPTION:Join Harlem based artist Ayanna Legros for a collage workshop exploring the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson! She will guide us in creating our own paper collages and explain the significance of the medium. Materials and food provided. \nAyanna showed work in our most recent exhibition\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. Program in collaboration with OurTransLife. RSVP Required. \nAbout the artist: Ayanna Legros (b. 1991) is a mixed-media artist\, writer\, and radio archivist. Her work is rooted in her Haitian lineage\, and US Black upbringing in West Harlem. These roots and routes inform her paintings\, collages\, photographs\, and glass assemblages. Her historical and archival training guides her interrogation of Western Civilization’s belief that Black peoples are incapable of maintaining civility\, producing history\, and embodying modernity. Her work is a multi-layered exercise in preserving historical memory\, as she immortalizes figures who sit on the margins despite their vast contributions to humanity.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/collaging-with-ayanna-legros/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Macrame with Melida
DESCRIPTION:Bridgeport based artist Melida McKenzie-Alford will talk to us about her life\, work\, and process while giving a workshop in pattern-less macrame crafting. Melida has work in our current exhibition\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. Materials and lunch provided! Open to youth 18-23. Space is limited- RSVP required: https://forms.gle/z9wcexsEux3xPHm88
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/macrame-with-melida/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undrowned Book Talk\, featuring Crafts by Lex
DESCRIPTION:OurTransLife and the Freeman Center will lead an interactive discussion and complete activities from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Artist Lex Ferguson will guide us in crafting mobiles based on the books themes. Free copies of the book\, craft materials\, and lunch provided. Open to youth 18-23.  Space is limited- RSVP required: https://form.jotform.com/261255326455154.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/undrowned-book-talk-featuring-crafts-by-lex/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curator's Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join the Freeman Center’s curator for open-house style gatherings exploring the works in our current exhibit\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. Come for the conversation\, leave with new connections! This week\, we will look at the work of Elisha Brockenberry and Asé Selah.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/curators-talk-tour/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Still Life Drawing with Chris Jones
DESCRIPTION:Join OurTransLife and the Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for a hands-on still life drawing class with artist Chris Jones. Attendees are encouraged to bring objects related to birth\, motherhood\, mother-figures\, children\, or innerchild work! Materials and dinner provided.\nRSVP required: https://forms.gle/eaTU3XxkHd8mkgvT9
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/still-life-drawing-with-chris-jones/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curator's Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join the Freeman Center’s curator for this series of casual cultural conversations! Bi-weekly gatherings on the first and third Thursday of the month from 5:00-7:00pm based on the works featured in our current exhibit\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. \nThursday\, May 21st: What’s on the other side of Chelsea Ramírez’s flowing\, foggy landscapes? We’ll talk identity\, ancestry and the natural environment with the help of her Seed Crystals series\, River Echo-you & i & i & i\, and River Echo infinity-xoxo.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/chelsea/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wings over Little Liberia
DESCRIPTION:Wings Over Little Liberia & the Freeman Sisters with Maisa Tisdale (in collaboration with Black Wing Coalition\, Sovereign Land Trust) \nJoin us for a guided history and bird walk tour honoring the legacy of Little Liberia and the Freeman Sisters–connecting with our culture\, history\, and ecology. Light Lunch Included!
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/wings-over-little-liberia/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curator's Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join the Freeman Center’s curator for this series of casual cultural conversations! Bi-weekly gatherings on the first and third Thursday of the month from 5:00-7:00pm based on the works featured in our current exhibit\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. \nThursday\, May 7th: Raffia\, Bells\, and (Cowrie) Shells: Nicole Grant-Paul’s Lioness and Lion of Judah and Melida McKenzie-Alford’s Yohuru and Across the Sea make use of these objects. What are they\, and how do they point to our connections to the African continent and each other?
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/curators-talk-tour-nicole/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curator's Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join the Freeman Center’s curator for this series of casual cultural conversations! Bi-weekly gatherings on the first and third Thursday of the month from 5:00-7:00pm based on the works featured in our current exhibit\, Turning Tides: Little Liberia & the Black Atlantic. \nThursday\, April 16th: Asé Selah’s powerful installation Indigo Dreams and Ayanna Legros’ 5 crafted glass bottle sculptures will guide us to an understanding of the Black Atlantic\, Little Liberia’s relationship to it\, and what it means for us at this present moment.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/curators-talk-tour-aseselah/
LOCATION:The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center\, 25 Elm Street\, Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, 06604\, United States
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