AFRICA SALON Set for Brooklyn Museum in July

On Saturday, July 9 from 12 to 6 pm, AFRICA SALON, Yale University's contemporary African arts festival, joins the Brooklyn Museum to offer an afternoon of performances, talks, film screenings, and workshops, inspired by the exhibitionDisguise: Masks and Global African Art. A dance party, hosted by NON Records, will end the full day program.

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art connects the work of twenty-five contemporary artists with historical African masquerade, using play and provocation to invite viewers to think critically about their world and their place within it. By putting on a mask and becoming someone else, artists reveal hidden realities about society, including those of power, class, and gender, to suggest possibilities for the future. AFRICA SALON at the Brooklyn Museum is free with Museum admission.

The full schedule follows:

Ongoing

Curator Tours

East Gallery, 1st Floor

Associate Curator of Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, Kevin Dumouchelle leads tours in the exhibition Disguise on the tradition of masquerade.

12-1 pm

Performance

East Gallery, 1st Floor

Dancer and choreographer Djassi Dacosta Johnson presents artist Brendan Fernandes's In Touch, which uses gesture to question how we interact with African art.

1:30-1:50 pm

Artist Talk

East Gallery, 1st Floor

Artist Brendan Fernandes and dancer and choreographer Djassi Dacosta Johnson discuss performance art in museums. The conversation will be moderated by Amanda Jane Graham.

1:15-2:15 pm

Digital Culture Chat

Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Listen to a panel discussion about "digital museums" and African art and culture. Panelists include Jonathan Jackson, co-founder of Blavity; Eyitemi Pop, editor-in-chief of Ayiba magazine; and Omar Dubois, editor-in-chief ofTrue Africa.

2:30-3 pm

Film: Diasporadical Trilogia

Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Watch a screening of the Afro-magical realism film Diasporadical Trilogia, by rapper Blitz the Ambassador. Followed by a talkback featuring the artist.

3:15-4 pm

Mask-Making Workshop

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Create your own Afrofuturist mask with Iyapo Repository, a library of digital and physical artifacts that affirm peoples of African descent.

4-4:30 pm

Poetry Salon

Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Poet Safia Elhillo performs poetry, with soundscapes and visuals produced by performance collective BKLYN ZULU.

4:30-6 pm

Disguise Day Party

Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor

Join a party presented by NON Records, a collective of artists from the African diaspora. Dress code: "African cool".

Image: Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Beninese, born 1965). Untitled, Egungun Series, 2011. Digital exhibition print, 59 x 39 1/4 in. (149.9 x 99.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery, London. © Leonce Agbodjelou. Photo: Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery, London

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