May 2019
Members Mingle
May Art Hop join members in the Board Room for light snacks and drinks. Art for sale/bid will be available during the mingle. Art is also on exhibit in the Gail Sydnor Gallery. Members can enter $5 raffle to win tickets to see The Spring Quartet featuring Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding & Genovese on May 4th at 7:30pm in Kalamazoo.
Find out more »Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an…
Find out more »Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an…
Find out more »Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an…
Find out more »Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood (Sensory Friendly)
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an…
Find out more »Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an…
Find out more »June 2019
Brown Bag: Best of Nipsey
Enjoy Black Music Appreciation Month with the Black Arts & Cultural Center. Ermias Joseph Asghedom, known professionally as Nipsey Hussle, was an American rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, and community activist from Los Angeles, California
Find out more »Brown Bag: The History of Funk Music
Enjoy Black Music Appreciation Month with the Black Arts & Cultural Center. During the 1970s this fun, futuristic and freaky music changed the streets of America with its outrageous fashion, space-age vision and streetwise slang. But more than that, funk was a celebration of being black, providing a platform for a new philosophy, belief system and lifestyle that was able to unite young black Americans into taking pride in who they were. Today, like blues and jazz, it is looked…
Find out more »July 2019
New Play Series
"Dreamin'" by Dr. Michelle Johnson: A comedic look at the lives of three women as they navigate careers, relationships and unexplored visions "A Ligature for Black Bodies" by Denise Miller: An attempt to confront the nation’s historical apathy through an elegiac chronicle of the indifferent, haphazard yet legal murder of Black people by the American values education taught not only to the criminal justice system, but to all of us "You're Gonna Learn Today" by Earlene McMichael: A journey of a teen girl whose "Black card" is…
Find out more »New Play Series
"Dreamin'" by Dr. Michelle Johnson: A comedic look at the lives of three women as they navigate careers, relationships and unexplored visions "A Ligature for Black Bodies" by Denise Miller: An attempt to confront the nation’s historical apathy through an elegiac chronicle of the indifferent, haphazard yet legal murder of Black people by the American values education taught not only to the criminal justice system, but to all of us "You're Gonna Learn Today" by Earlene McMichael: A journey of…
Find out more »Black Art Festival 2019
Enjoy the Black Arts Festival featuring four days of entertainment, food, vendors, music, live performances, activities for the entire community. The 2019 Black Arts Festival has multiple events for all ages during festival week. Enjoy entertainment, music, dancing and performances that will keep you on your feet. During Festival week get hands on with cultural and creative activities for children and adults.
Find out more »New Play Series
"Dreamin'" by Dr. Michelle Johnson: A comedic look at the lives of three women as they navigate careers, relationships and unexplored visions "A Ligature for Black Bodies" by Denise Miller: An attempt to confront the nation’s historical apathy through an elegiac chronicle of the indifferent, haphazard yet legal murder of Black people by the American values education taught not only to the criminal justice system, but to all of us "You're Gonna Learn Today" by Earlene McMichael: A journey of…
Find out more »New Play Series
"Dreamin'" by Dr. Michelle Johnson: A comedic look at the lives of three women as they navigate careers, relationships and unexplored visions "A Ligature for Black Bodies" by Denise Miller: An attempt to confront the nation’s historical apathy through an elegiac chronicle of the indifferent, haphazard yet legal murder of Black people by the American values education taught not only to the criminal justice system, but to all of us "You're Gonna Learn Today" by Earlene McMichael: A journey of…
Find out more »November 2019
eLLe by Shawntai Brown
eLLe by Shawntai Brown in collaboration with Queer Theatre Kalamazoo
Find out more »December 2019
Pre-Kwanzaa Bazaar
Enjoy the Pre-Kwanzaa Bazar featuring food, vendors, music, live performances, activities and a screening of the Kwanzaa documentary “The Black Candle” for the entire community.
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