ZEAL announces
The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations
Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
A new citywide, public art project in San Francisco curated by Auttrianna Ward supporting the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee is part of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week
Programming from September 20 – October 20, 2024
ZEAL, the international, Black worker-owned creative arts and social impact studio alliance, announced today the presentation of a new public art initiative, The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations – Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right, in support of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee in San Francisco, whose 2022 reparations plan is the first of its kind in the U.S.
Curated by fourth-generation San Francisco native Auttrianna Ward, the exhibition that asks San Francisco if it is willing to do what is just or if that would be “too much like right,” forms the second volume in California in a global multimedia anthology produced by ZEAL’s Co-founder and Principal – Cultural Design, Allen Kwabena Frimpong. It aims to spark vital dialogue about reparations in San Francisco and more broadly to build community wealth across the African diaspora. Ward and Frimpong have formed a cultural partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), establishing Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right as part of the museum’s fall celebration of Black visual culture in the Bay Area titled Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING AND EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Public screening of short film Too Much Like Right by Auttrianna Ward and panel discussion moderated by Eric McDonnell – Chair, African American Reparations Advisory Committee, San Francisco
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), Screening Room, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Panelists:
Auttrianna Ward – Curator, The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations, Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
Malik Seneferu – Artist, Activist, and Community Archivist in Residence
Allen Kwabena Frimpong – ZEAL’s Co-founder and Principal – Cultural Design, Executive Producer of The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations
Opening Preview of the exhibition The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hosted with IBest Wines
Location: Swim Gallery, 509 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94109
Exhibition Dates: Sep 21 – Oct 10, 2024
Gallery Hours: Visit Swim Gallery for more details
Free Admission
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Reparations Summit for Creative, Cultural, and Intellectual Life: Part 1
Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
10:00 AM – Welcome, coffee and refreshments
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Panel Discussion – On the Issue of Compensation: Our Cultural Value in the Creative Economy moderated by Anshantia Oso, Senior Director, Media 2070 and Co-founder and Principal, Social Impact at ZEAL
Panelists:
Otis R. Taylor, Jr. – Managing Editor of KQED
Auttrianna Ward – Curator, The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations, Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
Allen Kwabena Frimpong – ZEAL’s Co-founder and Principal – Cultural Design, Executive Producer of The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations
Monetta White – Executive Director and CEO, Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) San Francisco
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Q&A followed by breakout sessions
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Closing Celebration at Hunters Point Shipyard
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Hunters Point Shipyard, 451 Galvez Avenue, Building 101, San Francisco, CA
Description: A celebration featuring collages by local youth projected onto the Hunters Point Shipyard. The works will explore how the next generation of San Franciscans define reparations. The following artists, curators, and thought leaders worked together to create an arts-based curriculum for the youth as a collective, reparative gesture.
Lauren Bon – Los Angeles-based environmental artist whose practice Metabolic Studio is a co-creative research hub that addresses crucial issues through art intervention and works aimed at reparations
Paul Henderson – Social justice attorney, art advocate, and collector focused on art intentionally reflecting broader narratives for communities of color
Malik Seneferu – Artist, Activist, and Community Archivist in Residence
Auttrianna Ward – Curator, The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations, Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Event: Family Healing Day
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Adam Rogers Park, 1215 Quesada Ave, San Francisco, CA 94124
Description: Join us for a day of healing and connection at Adam Rogers Park, the park named after Ward’s great-uncle. This community event will serve as a space to give reverence to our families and aims to be both reparative and restorative. The event includes a conversation around the black family in the context of the film Pathologizing the Black Family.
Dr. Cheryl Grills – CA Reparations Task Force member, Professor of Psychology at Loyola Marymount University, former national President of The Association of Black Psychologists, Executive Producer of Pathologizing the Black Family
Tierra Rogers – Granddaughter of Adam Rogers and nationally recognized women’s basketball player at UC Berkeley
Darice Jones – Director, Bijou Film Festival
Auttrianna Ward – Curator, The Remedy is Solidarity: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations, Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right
Malik Seneferu – Artist, Activist, and Community Archivist in Residence
