Founder & Creative Executive Officer
Kamau Ware
BGX Membership Coordinator
Alyssa Barone
Communications Coordinator
Cheek Mula
Creative Assistant
Petra Wimer
Fashion Designer
Asmaa Amadou
BGX Membership Coordinator
Alyssa Barone
Visual Storyteller and Editor
Suede Hunte
StoryGuide
Maiya Blaney
Visual Storyteller and Editor
Jolie Heriveaux
Archivist & Research Coordinator
Zingha Foma
Graphic Designer
Isa
Reyes
Community Manager
Kei Williams
Event Impresario
OG
FIGHTING DARK is a Black Gotham Experience (BGX) film co-produced by Kamau Ware and Hopi Noel Morton, commissioned by The Shed to highlight racial violence and Black resilience in New York City. The central question in FIGHTING DARK is directed toward Black people living in the United States of America: What have you learned from Black resilience?
We are looking to include voices in two ways including a photo events celebrating Black resilience.
How to participate.
A) Join the Black Resilience Photo Events to express what Black resilience looks like with style. RSVP or use this Doodle Poll. We will gather at the following locations and times.
- Saturday November 7th | 1-3pm | Crown Heights, BK
- Wednesday November 11th | 1-3pm | Grand Army Plaza, BK
- Saturday November 14th | 9am to 3pm | BGX Studio (Lower Manhattan)
B) Email a 30 second recording of what you have learned from Black resilience to projects@staging2.kamauw1.sg-host.com. Please include your full name, where you were born, and where you live now.
FIGHTING DARK is inspired by Howardena Pindell’s latest exhibition at The Shed, Rope/Fire/Water. In this powerful work, Pindell recounts personal anecdotes and anthropological and historical data related to lynchings and racist attacks in the United States.
before belonging is our first audio walking tour, commissioned for Open House New York Weekend 2020. The walk is seven stops along Broadway from Bowling Green to Duane Street, narrated by Kamau Ware.
Let us know what you think!
