Name: 2-Day Convening: How to Build a Fire
Start: 2024-10-04T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-05T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, United States, New York 10037

IN PERSON
As we celebrate the centennial birth of James “Jimmy” Baldwin, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is excited to host a two-day convening in collaboration with the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
A stellar group of scholars and creatives, including Prentis Hemphill, Bettina Love, PhD, Derrais Carter, PhD, Darnell Moore, Marsha Jean-Charles, PhD, Dante Stewart, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and more, will reflect on the blackprints Baldwin wrote for his time, toward building and making our own interventions in the present.
Schedule
Friday, October 4
10:00 AM | Opening Session
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM | Panels and Breaks
5- 7 PM | Opening Reception + DJ
Saturday, October 5
10 AM | Opening Session + Invocation with Prentice Hemphill
11 AM - 4:30 PM | Panels and Breaks
5 - 7 PM | Closing Reception + DJ

"Fire Time" by artist Jules Arthur

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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