- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
AFRICANS IN Brooklyn
ORGANIZATION: Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC)
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
We are in need of volunteers to help set up this event from 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
On Sept, 30th WHC is partnering with Enitan Vintage and Liberated People to present AFRICANS IN Brooklyn, an interactive contemporary art installation. The installation will take place in New York City’s Housing Authority’s Kingsborough neighborhood, located directly across the street from WHC, and is purposed with documenting resident life and collecting oral histories about the lives of people living in this historic community. We will also be giving away book bags, school supplies, and sweatshirts.
The project is project curated by star of" Lottery Ticket" and HBO's "The Wire" and "The Deuce", Gbenga Akinnagbe, and includes free family or individual portrait taken by Notorious B.l.G. photographer, Barron Claiborne.
A bagel breakfast with coffee, orange juice, and water will be provided for volunteers the day of the event.
More opportunities with Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC)
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC)
Location:
158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213, US
Mission Statement
To document, preserve and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville, Brooklyn and beyond and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts, and civic engagement.
Description
WHC was a rare intentional community where free African Americans lived from around 1838 through the 1930's. Today, it is a significant historic American site, with a well-documented, rare extant example of an independent African American community organized by African American entrepreneurs and land investors. It is also one of the only African American historic sites in the Northeast on its original property. Weeksville, presently known as Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant, became the second largest known independent African American community in pre-Civil War America. A deeply engaged community, Weeksville residents sustained one of the first African American newspapers, advocated for abolition, and provided safe haven during the violent draft riots of the Civil War era. All but forgotten, in the late 60’s a small group of community activist led by Joan Maynard, rediscovered the dilapidated houses that were rare residential remnants of life in Weeksville. The Historic Hunterfly Road Houses, as they are known today, have been New York City landmarks since 1970 and in 1972 were listed in the National Register of Historic Places with Local and National significance.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
158 Buffalo AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11213
DATE POSTED
September 21, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 6 hours