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Snaps & Taps Black Poets Talkback

Join The Community Folk Art Center, 119 Euclid, and the Black Graduate Student Association for a night of spoken word and a thought-provoking conversation on Black artistry.   

Friday, February, 2nd
Doors Open at 6:30 PM
Community Folk Art Center, Black Box Theater

| This Event is FREE and Open to the Community

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‘A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s’ —A Curatorial Talk

Join us on Wednesday, December 13th for a curatorial talk and exhibition sunset. Curators Caroline Charles and Jessica Terry-Elliott of ‘A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s’ will hold an artist conversation with the community.

Wednesday, December 13th
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Community Folk Art Center, Gallery

| Free Admission

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CFAC Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration 2023

The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) invites you to celebrate a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration event! The celebration will be hosted at the Community Folk Art Center in the Black Box Theater on Friday, December 8th at 7:00 PM. 

For more information Contact Cedric T. Bolton  at ctbolton@syr.edu

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CommuniVersity

 

Join us for an exciting and thought-provoking event at the Community Folk Art Center. The CommuniVersity Black Diasporic Forum aims to bring together individuals of the Black diaspora and discuss overarching complexities in the Continental African, African American, and Caribbean communities. This in-person event will provide a platform for open dialogue, sharing experiences, and exploring strategies for unity and empowerment.

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“A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s” Traveling Exhibit

 

Visit the Community Folk Arts Center to explore Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC) traveling exhibition of “A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s.”

On View: September 11, 2023December 15, 2023 EDT

This exhibition was previously on display at SCRC from January through August 2023. A Love Supreme reimagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC’s manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.