Celebrate Black History Month With These Cultural Happenings in San Francisco
Celebrate Black History Month in and around San Francisco this year.
San Francisco will celebrate Black History Month with an exciting slate of events to commemorate the contributions of African-Americans within our city, across our nation, and throughout our history.
Plan ahead, purchase tickets, and gather your friends to take part in all of the excitement here in San Francisco and the East Bay. If your calendar is already looking full, don't worry; you can plan an excursion of your own to experience San Francisco's Black culture any time of year.
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
685 Mission St.
Building Universes
This special collaborative evening between MoAD and SFMOMA centers two exhibitions and two ways of imagining the world anew. Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love illuminates the cosmos one artist can create through a singular, visionary practice, while UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe reveals what becomes possible when artists from across the African Diaspora build cosmologies together—ideas sparking ideas, worlds unfolding in conversation. February 5, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free.
SistahFriend
SistahFriend is a dramatic comedy that follows three Black women in their 40s as they navigate life, love, faith, and identity with honesty, humor, and heart. SistahFriend is written by Phaedra Tillery-Boughton, directed by Margo Hall, with dramaturgy & mentorship by Dr. Lisa B. Thompson. SistahFriend is being developed in Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s New Black Voices Mentorship Program. February 7 at 2:00 p.m.
O-O-H Child: In the Disentangling, We Are Found
MoAD presents O-O-H Child, a performance rooted in M. Carmen Lane’s installation You Weren’t Ready for Mami Wata in the Bates Gallery. Named after an idiom that holds recognition, warning, tenderness, and release in a single breath, O-O-H Child begins where language thins and embodied knowing takes over, unfolding through sound and movement. February 12 at 6:00 p.m.
Diasporic Frequencies: What the Archive Holds, What Sound Carries
Join Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at MoAD; Delphine Sims, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA; and Oakland/DC-based DJ and producer Darling Cool for a conversation where photography, contemporary art, and sound come into dialogue. Together, the speakers will consider how photographic archives and contemporary artistic practices open new ways of understanding Black archives, memory, and futures across place and time. This event is presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and is free with advance RSVP. February 19 at 6:00 p.m.
Black History Month Student Showcase
This event will feature student performances inspired by the Black Renaissance, a celebration of Black creativity, student voice, and leadership. Young authors in 826 Valencia's Black Students Initiative will showcase their original work for their community. Admission is free. February 26 at 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy in SF
Despite being thousands of miles from the Montgomery bus boycotts and the march in Selma, San Francisco figures prominently in the personal and political history of Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn about his connections to the City by the Bay.
Brenda Tucker is the Director of Arts Marketing at San Francisco Travel. She has lived in San Francisco since 1998, after driving cross-country to a home she secured sight unseen. Brenda enjoys swimming out-of-doors year-round, being inspired by the incredible art scene in the City, and living in the best place on earth.
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