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PASSPORT TO CULTURE: SUMMER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (Ages 6 – 12)
Beginning Tuesday July 6, 2010 through Friday August 20, 2010
Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Designed to enhance the exhibitions “Audacious Freedom” and “381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story,” the museum offer tours and a diverse, engaging menu of our Learning through the Arts Workshops, including African and Colonial Dance, Mlanjeni Magical Theater, and Arts and Crafts, along with a journey to historic moments in the rich cultural history of the people of Africa and the Diaspora through Storytelling & Folktales. These programs offer young people the opportunity to meet prominent visual and performing artists from Philadelphia’s cultural community, while exploring pivotal moments in American and world history.
Available by reservation only. For booking information, please call Sandra Steward at (215) 574-0380 ext. 229.
LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS WORKSHOPS
Our Learning through the Arts programs and workshops, held at AAMP or through our AAMP on the Go! Traveling Museum Program, offer participants an opportunity to interact with visual and performing artists, express their ideas through lively discussions and participation, and gain cultural literacy as well as important communication and critical thinking skills.
- African Dance
- Drum Circle
- Storytelling
- Hip Hop Jazz Musicology
- Historical Re-enactments
- In the Studio
- Mlanjeni Magical Theatre
Group Rates / Tuesday through Saturday / Reservations Required 215-574-0380 x229
SATURDAYS
FREEDOM WALK: Historic Philadelphia ~ 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This moving and thought-provoking walking tour led by Richard White, brings to light little known facts and places regarding the Free African Movement, and the 3 pillars for a true/representative democracy (human independence, moral persuasion and economic self-sufficiency). The guided journey will begin at AAMP and conclude at Mother Bethel. Stops in between include the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, The President's House (the first White House where nine enslaved Africans lived and were kept by George Washington), Congo Square, site of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Willing's Alley (St. Joseph's Church and Benezet Free African School) and the home of James Forten.
Reservations Required - Call 215-574-0380 ext. 229
Saturdays – 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday Family Fun Days
Enjoy a variety of AAMP’s exciting Learning through the Arts workshops every Saturday. Check monthly schedule for details. Workshops include African and Colonial Dance, Historical Re enactments, Hip Hop Jazz Musicology, and Drum Circle.
Free with Museum Admission
1st and 3rd Sundays – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theatre
Free with Museum Admission
Sundays – 1 p.m.
CinemaSepia — Afternoon Film Series
Check www.aampmuseum.org or call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, June 5, 2010
History in the Present with Noah Lewis – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Amma – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, June 6, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series: Chisholm ’72 – Unbought and Unbossed (77 min.)
View the first historical documentary on Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972. Following Chisholm from the announcement of her candidacy in January to the Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida in July, the story is like her- fabulous, fierce, and fundamentally “right on.”
Free with Museum Admission
Thursday, June 10, 2010 – 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
VOICES: Audacious Freedom Community Conversation Series at Christ Church in Philadelphia
LOCATION: Christ Church in Philadelphia, 20 North American Street (2nd and Market St.), Philadelphia, PA 19106
TOPIC: Integrating African American History into an Historic Site’s Interpretation
Join Christ Church Rector Tim Safford and Christ Church Historian and senior guide Neil Ronk as they relate how Christ Church has incorporated its African American history and stories into its interpretation program.
For more information: Call 215-922-1695 x32 or visit www.christchurchphila.org
This Community Conversation Series of public dialogues about slavery/freedom/race is hosted in collaboration with local organizations and institutions. These conversations/dialogues propose to question the issue of race and freedom in early Philadelphia and explore how it impacted the free black and enslaved communities in the 18th & 19th centuries. VOICES is intended to connect a broad public to the Audacious Freedom exhibition and to provide a platform for everyday people to talk about the struggle for freedom, give voice to issues that affected the African American community, especially those which continue to impact their lives today.
Supported in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, this series of community conversations about slavery/freedom/race is hosted in collaboration with local organizations and institutions and the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.
Free Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 2)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Free with Museum Admission
Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 1 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Illusion of Inclusion
Presented in partnership with InterAct Theatre Company – www.interacttheatre.org
Among the many ideas explored in the musical "Black Pearl Sings!" one of the most striking is the American tradition of marginalizing and exploiting members of racial and ethnic minority groups, based on the salient characteristics of their cultures, and their differences from the dominant culture. Since before the time of heavily exploited legends such as "Blind" Tom Wiggins, America's minorities have often been perceived and portrayed as exotic or "other", with individuals often relegated to the status of objects which are to be viewed, observed, and displayed, rather than as whole human beings.
Indeed, Africans across the Diaspora have been objectified in this way for decades around the globe, often basking in the glow of the camera's flash, but rarely acting as agents in composing the overall scene and tone of their images and histories.
This Community Conversation event will provide a forum for discussing the various faces and intentions of the perpetrators and victims of this traditional ostracism and forced exoticism. Presenters and participants will explore the negative consequences suffered by both groups when the ideas of cross-cultural exploration and inclusion are confused by bias and prejudice, both unintentional and deliberate.
Free Admission
Sunday, June 13, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series: Faubourg Tremé – The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (68 min.)
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is a riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans' most fascinating neighborhood. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.
Free with Museum Admission
Friday through Sunday, June 18 through 20, 2010 – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Art Pavilion at the 2010 West Oak Lane Jazz Festival
Join AAMP for JUNETEENTH Weekend at this year’s West Oak Lane Jazz Festival. At the AAMP Art Pavilion, visitors will learn to make take-away masks, collages, and other crafts, as well as enjoy face-painting, demonstrations by regional artists, and much more!
For festival schedule and other information, visit www.westoaklanefestival.com, or email info@westoaklanefestival.com.
Free Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Auditorium)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, June 27, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series: Inside Buffalo – The Story of Unsung Heroes of the 92nd Division in WW II (60 min.)
“Inside Buffalo” tells the story of the 92nd Buffalo Division, the all-African American segregated combat unit that fought with outstanding heroism in Italy during the Second World War. African Italian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu searches out little-known aspects of the story, including details of the friendships forged between African American soldiers and the Italian partisan fighters and villagers they liberated from fascist rule. It is a 2008 meeting with Spike Lee – who was shooting "Miracle at St. Anna" on location in Tuscany -- that inspired Kuwornu to start this very personal voyage of discovery culminating in the powerful documentary.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, July 3, 2010 – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Arts and Crafts with Amma
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, July 4, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
PASSPORT TO CULTURE: SUMMER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (Ages 6 – 12)
Beginning Tuesday July 6, 2010 through Friday August 20, 2010
Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Designed to enhance the exhibitions “Audacious Freedom” and “381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story,” the museum offer tours and a diverse, engaging menu of our Learning through the Arts Workshops, including African and Colonial Dance, Mlanjeni Magical Theater, and Arts and Crafts, along with a journey to historic moments in the rich cultural history of the people of Africa and the Diaspora through Storytelling & Folktales. These programs offer young people the opportunity to meet prominent visual and performing artists from Philadelphia’s cultural community, while exploring pivotal moments in American and world history.
Available by reservation only. For booking information, please call Sandra Steward at (215) 574-0380 ext. 229.
Pennsylvania Quest for Freedom Live and Learn Weekend
Live and Learn is a partnership between the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development's Quest for Freedom Network and is intended to help Pennsylvania residents and visitors explore Underground Railroad and Civil War history through site visits, living history performances and the discussion of literature. Join AAMP and Dr. D. Zizwe Poe of Lincoln University at each 2010 Live and Learn Weekend!
Friday, July 9, 2010 – 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. (Auditorium)
Book: What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War by Chandra Manning
Manning uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers, all written during the war, to glean the attitudes, hopes, and even the fears of soldiers toward the institution of slavery and emancipation. Unlike many previous works on the subject, Manning ignores the writings of elites and emphasizes the opinions of common soldiers, North and South, white and black. Some of her conclusions are striking and likely to generate intense debate. Although acknowledging that many Union soldiers enlisted to preserve the Union rather than to fight slavery, she asserts that both slavery and emancipation were constant topics of discussion as early as 1861. She disputes that non-slaveholding Confederate soldiers (who were the overwhelming majority) fought primarily to defend hearth and home from Yankee invaders. Rather, she maintains that the defense of slavery was intimately tied to their sense of manhood, honor, and their place in the Southern social structures.
Limited free copies of book available with RSVP. To register, call Ivan Henderson at (215) 574-0380 ext.220, or email ihenderson@aampmuseum.org.
Free Admission
Sunday, July 11, 2010 – 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Underground Railroad Museum at Belmont Mansion, 2000 Belmont Mansion Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19131, (215) 878-8844
Join AAMP and Dr. D. Zizwe Poe at historic Belmont Mansion to tour the site and continue the discourse on slavery, abolition, and the various fronts of the fight for freedom for all Americans.
Free Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Auditorium)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, July 11, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, July 17, 2010
History in the Present with Noah Lewis – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Amma – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, July 18, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Auditorium)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, July 18, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds (55 min)
Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
Sunday, July 25, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
The Vernon Johns Story: The Road to Freedom (90 min)
This is must see for those who are unfamiliar with heroes of the Civil Rights Movement prior to Brown v. the Board of Education and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
K. Leroy Irvis: The Lion of Pennsylvania
Documentary chronicles the life of K. Leroy Irvis as the first African American Speaker of any State House of Representatives in the nation and as a civil rights activist.
Sunday, August 8, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
My Slave Sister Myself (55 min)
A compelling documentary film that depict the effects of the Transatlantic slave trade on enslaved African females.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
King of Oak Street (70 min)
A Documentary following the life and times of the New Orleans-based artist Frenchy.
Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (51 min)
A New England family explores it roots in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Sunday, August 29, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
759: Boy Scouts of Harlem (72 min)
A warm, tender, funny documentary about Scouting in an unexpected place.
Free with Museum Admission
July 30 and 31, 2010
CELEBRATE AFRICA 2010 - SENEGAL
Check back soon for schedule and details, or call (215) 574-0380.
Free Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, July 31, 2010
History in the Present with Joe Becton & Noah Lewis – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Amma – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Sunday, August 1, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, August 7, 2010
History in the Present with Noah Lewis – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Amma – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, August 8, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Auditorium)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, August 15, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, August 21, 2010
History in the Present with Joe Becton & Noah Lewis – 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Amma – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, August 22, 2010 – 1 p.m. (Auditorium)
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission
SATURDAY FAMILY FUN DAYS
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Colonial Dance with Amma and Ishmael – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Auditorium)
Arts and Crafts with Carla Wiley – 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Gallery 3)
Hip Hop Jazz Musicology and Drum Circle with Peace of Music – 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Auditorium)
Free with Museum Admission
Sunday, August 29, 2010 – 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Afternoons with Mlanjeni Magical Theater
CinemaSepia – Sunday Afternoon Film Series
Call (215) 574-0380 for film listings.
Free with Museum Admission