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February 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Amplifying local Black voices through photography and perspectives. Front window display will honor local hero Maxine Lewis. Taste Black-owned and made wines as we celebrate Black History Month and BELONGING.

Portaits and Perspectives is a crucial component of R.A.C.E. Matter’s event series entitled BELONGING: Local Expressions of Black Empowerment and Possibility. The exhibit combines portraiture by Renoda Campbell Photography with oral history excerpts — centering and amplifying local Black voices. Downtown SLO’s front display window will feature a visual tribute to local Black culture and history. The exhibit will be installed through April, and will kick off with Art After Dark!

Join photographer Renoda Campbell, curator Courtney Haile, and the wonderful project participants as we celebrate BELONGING and Black History Month. Taste local Black-owned and made wines!


Additional BELONGING events, include:

February 1st through April 30th Portraits and Perspectives at Downtown SLO, 1135 Chorro St.

February 1st through April 30th Portraits and Perspectives at San Luis Obispo Library, 995 Palm St.

February 12th Black Business Belongs: Black Business Leaders Forum moderated by City Councilwoman Erica Stewart, at SeaCrest Hotel.

February 29th Stories Matter: An evening of live storytelling at The Kinney SLO.

In commemoration of Black History Month, on February 1st local organization R.A.C.E. Matters will launch a month-long, multimedia, multi-location event series entitled BELONGING. The series kicks off February 1st with the R.A.C.E. Matters produced short documentary film Kut to be the Best- the Last Black Barbershop in SLO. The BELONGING program also includes Portraits and Perspectives: photography and oral history excerpts at the Downtown SLO Association office and the San Luis Obispo Library. Rounding out the month, R.A.C.E. Matters will also host a Black business leaders forum and evening of live storytelling. Some events have limited space and require reservations. See racemattersslo.org for details.


R.A.C.E. Matters SLO County is a community-based organization that amplifies the voices of Black and other People of Color, in an effort to build an actively anti-racist Central Coast.

Details

Date:
February 7, 2020
Time:
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.racemattersslo.org/eventscalendar

Organizer

R.A.C.E. Matters SLO County
Email:
racemattersslo@gmail.com
Website:
https://www.racemattersslo.org/

Venue

Downtown SLO
1135 Chorro Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 United States
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