MAG Events Calendar
Black History Month Family Day
Memorial Art Gallery
Sunday, February 27, 2011
12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
All ages are invited to this annual event celebrating Black History Month. Admission is free and includes:
- hands-on art activities
- concert by Rochester soul group Black August (pictured)
- “A Time in the Life of Frederick Douglass, Shields Green and A Woman Called Moses (Harriet Tubman),” reenacted by AKWAABA: The Heritage Associates
- child-friendly art talk on Ghana and adinkra symbols by Nita Brown
- Caribbean drumming by children's performance troupe Dreamseeds
- African music and dance by Akoma Ntoaso Dance Ensemble
- performance by SWAN Community Band
- Ethiopian dance by University of Rochester student group Axum
- family tours of the exhibition
- cultural displays
Black History Month Family Day is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Robert and Madeleine S. Heilbrunn Memorial Fund.