February 4, 18 ~ Mo’ MAGIC
Community Meetings: Mobilization for Adolescent Growth in Communities, District 5 Chapter. All community members welcome. Starts at11am. Contact: Sheryl Davis at 415/558-2487.
February 3, 11 ~ Census 2010 Employment Opportunities
If interested 6pm testing only. February 10th 2010 10am test and 1pm test. For more information call 1-866-861-2010 or visit 2010Census.gov
February 15~ AAACC Advisory Board
The AAACC Advisory Board meetings provide an opportunity for local voices to offer suggestions and speak of various concerns in the community.6pm-8pm. For more information contact: Monique El-Amin moniqueelamin@yahoo.com
February 4-March 14 ~Cultural Odyssey in association with AAACC presents 30th Anniversary Festival of New Works!
Cultural Odyssey will celebrate their 30th Anniversary with a six-week theater run featuring two World Premieres including "The Breach" (featuring Joanna Haigood), and The Medea Project's "Dancing with the Clown of Love" (a collaboration with the Women's HIV Program at the University of San Francisco Medical Center), and the San Francisco Premiere of "The Love Project" (written in collaboration with the noted writers Pearl Cleage and her husband Zaron Burnett). For more information please contact www.culturalodyssey.org.
February 10 ~ All-Star Comedy Fundraiser
For Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco District Attorney and candidate for California Attorney General 2010. The event will be hosted by Tony Sparks Featuring Frankie Quiones, Bradley Lum, Shea Suga, Barbara Garber, Donald Lacy, G. King and Dennis Gaxiola. Wednesday, February 10th 2010 7pm-9pm. For more information call 415/922-2049.
February 12 ~ AAACC Jazz & Poetry Night
Please join the AAACC for a night of jazz and poetry in the community. For more information please call Tamika Chenier 1(415) 922-2049.
February 28 ~ “Rummage by Design”
A mini New Orleans Style Jazz Festival. Interested vendors and for more information please contact Cassandra immediately at 415/694-0231 or email cassandrawalton@gmail.com.
~Sabar & Djembe Dance Class/SF African Dance & Drum Class
With renowned dancer & drummer Faly Seydi & Other Guest Artists. Wonderful live Drummers Jamil Diop, Amadou Diawara, Idrissa Gueye & many others. Ongoing Classes Thursday 6pm-7:30pm, Seniors/Students $12/General Admission $14. Contact 415/378-4413 for more information.
~Larkin Bukido Karate
Classes Saturdays. , Children/Adult fees apply. Contact 415/626-5525 for more information.
~ Les Bantus Congolese Dance and Drum Classes
By Master teacher Sandor Diabankouezi. Ongoing Saturdays 1pm Dance, 3pm Drumming. Contact 415/302-8692 for more info.
~ AAACC After School Youth Program
classes meet Monday-Friday, 3pm-6pm. Free Snack. Classes include dance, recording studio production, visual art, computer animation, theatre arts, film and more. For more information, contact Nicola Figgins, Youth Program Coordinator at 415/921-8382.
GALLERY HOURS
Monday – Saturday
12 Noon – 5PM
One Year Later…
A Community Photographic Exhibit of the 56th Presidential Inauguration
SJG – 3rd Floor Gallery
January 20 – March 21, 2010
Join the African American Art & Culture Complex as we recapture the energy, emotion, and enthusiasm that swept the Bay Area and the entire world last January. Several local community members, including the AAACC Executive Director, worked tirelessly to campaign for Barack Obama and also flew over 3,000 miles to witness the historic occasion. We collectively watched the first African-American President be sworn into office and now this exhibition will highlight, celebrate, and give a first-hand perspective on what it was like to be in Washington D.C and experience history unfold.
Contributing Photographers: Kimberly Brandon, London Breed, Mona Brooks, Harrison Chastang, Rameen Gassery, Amber Hughes, Geoffrey King, Dr. Ellee Koss, Nijla Mumin, David Onek, and Dr. Leslee Stradford
Contributing Painters: DaveSG, Chaz Guest, James Gayles, and Nannette Harris
The Art of Living Black: The Vibrancy of Color
SJG – Hall of Culture Gallery
February 4 – May 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4th 6-8 PM
The African American Art & Culture Complex is proud to be a satellite location for the 14th Annual Art of Living Black!
The exhibition features emerging and established artists. Each year, three artists are selected to receive the Jan Hart-Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award. This award is presented in memory of Jan Hart-Schuyers, artist, art activist, and co-founder of The Art Of Living Black, who passed in 1998. Rae Louise Hayward, artist, art activist, and co-founder of The Art of Living Black, passed in 2008. Her art celebrated the beauty of the African culture. Together, they created a venue that has paved the way for a new generation of artists to share their work.
The Breach: Photolution
Sargeant Johnson Gallery (1st Floor)
February 5 – March 31, 2010
Photolution is the story narrated by images, sketches, watercolors and writings of an artistic relationship and collaboration that has spanned three decades. It is the story of trust, imagination, collaboration, and love. This story follows the evolution of iconic photographs; from conception to birth; through development to realization and proliferation. We see the photo leave infancy…move past adolescence...witness the life it leads ...the people it affects, and the iconic presence it ultimately embodies.
A photo is indeed worth a thousand words. It is also worth an unlimited amount of press coverage, media attention, graphic stimulation, funding, and a variety of other benefits. Photolution is a book revealing the iconic images of San Francisco’s renowned artists, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor as seen through the eyes of photographers Lorraine Capparell and Lars Speyer. Cultural Odyssey was founded by Idris Ackamoor in 1979 and joined by Rhodessa Jones in 1982. Since that time the work of the company has become internationally recognized for its innovation and excellence, due in no small part to the excitement and imagination promoted through visual images. The collaboration and images have played a large role in the success and longevity of the company. Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor have had a prolific partnership with the team of Capparell and Speyer that charts a new direction for artists/photographer relationships and leaders of creative thought.
For over thirty years their collaboration has been a model for arresting, exciting images that shout “PRINT ME!” As a result of their collaboration, their photos have graced magazine covers, been used in innumerable newspaper reviews, previews, and been used for posters, postcards, and web promotions. To the credit of Lars and Lorraine, they were always sensitive to the need for Rhodessa and Idris to have complete control over the resulting images from the collaboration. The majority of the negatives reside in the Cultural Odyssey archives to be accessed by Rhodessa and Idris as well as
Lars and Lorraine at anytime.
Featured Artists:
Elizabeth Carter, Ajuan Mance, Bernadette Robertson, Hilda Robinson, Karin Turner, Shawn Weeden