Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Wanawari2020



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Event description
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an *online* edit-a-thon with Wa Na Wari on November 3rd, 2020 at 2pm PT. We will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black visual artists. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have resources and a list of suggested artists, cultural creators, and institutions on hand. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. RSVP ON EVENTBRITE

History of The Black Lunch Table
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart  which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 15 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and art are performed.

Want to know even more about BLT? Watch THIS short intro video!

About Wa Na Wari
Wa Na Wari creates space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection.

We are a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood. Sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home, Wa Na Wari:

Hosts rotating exhibits by local and regional Black artists Provides a space for workshops, performances, and lectures Convenes changemakers, elders, youth, neighbors, and artists for collaboration, innovation, and community organizing. Operates an oral history studio for gathering and sharing the stories of Seattle’s historically Black Central District

Seattle’s Central District was 80% Black in the 1970s. Today, it is less than 14% Black. Seattle’s affordability crisis has eliminated spaces where Black artists can work, create, and live. Aging Black homeowners struggle to afford skyrocketing property taxes. Remaining Black residents experience isolation and economic hardship. Wa Na Wari addresses these community challenges in the following ways. We provide space for Black artists to collaborate, exhibit their work, and network with other artists, collectors, and patrons. We pay Black artists, writers, curators, performers, and gallery sitters, and in so doing put money back into the regional Black creative economy. We present a new model for sustainable Black homeownership by financially supporting the elderly Black homeowner in whose home Wa Na Wari is located, and we regularly convene other Black homeowners to explore this model.

www.wanawari.org

Event details and Agenda
Date: Nov 3rd, 2020 Time: 2-5 pm PST Location: *online* rsvp here to get the link Event Agenda:


 * Presentation, follow along or review, Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation
 * Editing time
 * Goals:
 * -Create a user account (if new to Wikipedia)
 * -Create user page with at least one sentence
 * -Signin to Wikipedia edit-a-thon meetup page
 * -Make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious... What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend! Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on

Possible articles to edit
Our project focuses on notable visual artists and curators of the African Diaspora, this event will specfically target articles about artists associate with Seattle and Wa Na Wari.

Suggested Artists
Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! Please add a name if you know an artist who needs a page or needs editing and is missing from our task list LINK. Please make sure suggestions “qualify” according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines. Thanks!
 * Ahamefule Oluo
 * Barry Johnson (artist)
 * Black Embodiments Studio
 * Brenetta Ward
 * C. Davida Ingram
 * CD Forum
 * Dani Tirrell
 * David Rue
 * Esther Ervin
 * Hasaan Kirkland
 * Henry Jackson Spieker
 * Inye Wokoma
 * Isolde Brielmaier
 * James W. Washington
 * Jazz Brown
 * Jessica Rycheal
 * Jite Agbro
 * Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
 * Lindsay Zae Summers
 * Mariane Ibrahim
 * Markeith Wiley
 * Martyr Sauce
 * Preston Wadley
 * Porscha Shaw
 * Onyx Fine Arts Collective
 * Randy Ford
 * Royal Alley-Barnes
 * Sandra Jackson-Dumont
 * Sharita Towne
 * Storme Webber
 * Tariqa Waters
 * Wa Na Wari
 * Xenobia Bailey
 * Zorn B. Taylor
 * David Rue
 * Arvie Smith

Wa Na Wari-affiliated Artists of the African Diaspora
This is a list of notable artists who have worked with Wa Na Wari
 * Gabrielle Tesfaye
 * Ayana Evans
 * Autumn Knight
 * Germane Barnes

Seattle-affiliated notable artists of the African Diaspora (musicians, actors, dancers and writers)
Click here for a list of notable Seattle-affiliated artists (not including visual artists)

Uploading photos

 * |Wiki Image Guide
 * Where to find them.
 * Dos and Donts
 * Asking an artist for images.

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