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For our 4th Annual Black Artstory Month: Some Assembly Required, we are seeking filmmakers, poets, musicians, spoken word artists, actors and visual artists to submit artworks, performances, text, films, or mural designs that respond to our month’s mission:

The month will reflect on the importance and the role of gatherings, groups, collaborations, assemblies and collective conversations in regards to sparking and pursuing social, cultural, political and creative breakthroughs and change within our society: historically and in the present moment.

Keywords and concepts:

Assemblage, Collage, Assemblies, Gatherings, Machines, Tool Kits, Protests, Black Lives Matter, Church, Religion, Unions, “Perfect” Unions, Identity Politics, Gender Politics, Art as a tool, Culture, Multi-Culturalism, Family, Afro-Futurism, Gentrification, Rallies, Rebellions, Intergenerational, Intersectionality, Neighborhoods, Communities, Re-appropriation, Occupy Museums, Race Relations, Police Brutality, Collective Change, Domesticity, Industrial, Collectives, Conversations, Community Action, Performance, Radicality, Machines, Labor.

For additional information and to submit, please contact Daonne Huff at daonnedaonne@gmail.com

Black Artstory Month celebrates the enduring influences and contributions made by African Americans within the visual and performing arts worlds.  The month-long event will be taking place from February 1-29, 2016 at venues, storefronts and merchant spaces along Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.