#CarverMuseumPrograms

Carver Museum Programming

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

	Join us in the gallery at the Carver Museum on Saturday, September 14, 2024 from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM for the next and final program supporting the Small Black Museum Residency Project exhibition. The power of storytelling has the potential to heal deeply. By sharing our stories, we can connect with others, find understanding, and begin the journey towards healing. This process starts with ourselves and requires true honesty. In this session, we will write, reflect, and explore positive ways to heal from generational impacts, childhood hardships, and current events that can cause fatigue. Together, we will create a safe space to express ourselves and find peace. Writing is powerful, and finding peace within the mind is equally important. We will start healing together. RSVP here.
	JThe Carver's new season of our film screening series, "That's My Face", begins in September, and we're teaming up with the Carver Branch Library to kick things off! You're invited to a John Singleton tribute-screening of "Boyz N the Hood" on Saturday, September 14 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Carver Library. The event will begin with a community Q&A and discussion facilitated by Dr. Mark Cunningham, Associate Professor of Radio- Television-Film at Austin Community College-Eastview Campus. Free and open to the public. 18 and Up.   "That's My Face" is a community film series for youth and adults that features works that explore the diversity of Black experiences. From feature length and documentary films to short films and animation the works explore a variety of social, political, and cultural themes. Films are screened in the Boyd Vance Theatre, drive-in style on the Carver's Freedom Plaza, or off-site in partnership with presenting sponsors. RSVP here
	Joyous Tutoring presents free monthly chess lessons at the Carver Museum ATX! This offering will bring community youth together, ages 7-18 to participate in a classic African-American pastime that enriches youth socially and academically. Reserve your spot now!
	Join Folk Tales Book Club on September 20, 2024, from 6pm-8pm to discuss FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE – , by Percival Everett. Folk Tales is an online book club for women, that meets the third Friday of each month to discuss books by African American authors.   If you are interested in joining the book club please email Peggy Terry at folktaleslitsociety@hotmail.com.
	Join us in the Carver Genealogy Center on Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 1pm to 3 pm for September's 4th Saturday Genealogy Seminar. This special event features Sarah Kroh, a Texas based genealogist, as she leads this month’s seminar on the basics of doing genealogy research. Concepts such as creating a family tree from what you know and what records to look for will be referenced in the class. Ideas on how to solve common challenges will also be discussed. Seating is limited, first come first serve. RSVP here.

Ongoing Programs

Create & Heal

Create and Heal is a program of the Carver Museum that focuses on helping our community process the continued state-sanctioned violence against Black and Brown people in the United States. Through this program, we partner with Austin-based artists and activists to provide workshops where participants can share their thoughts and feelings and create art.

Small Black Museum: a podcast

Featuring stories from Black Austinites and contemporary shakers and makers, Small Black Museum is a podcast hosted by CarverMuseumATX. Our first episode, “Legacy, Legacy, Legacy!” features Stephanie Lang, Program Administrator for the Center for Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. You can listen to it on Soundcloud.

Our next segment of Small Black Museum features husband and wife hip-hop duo Riders Against the Storm. We’ll be dropping it in late May. Until then, stay curious and elevate your own living archive!

Carver Studio Arts

The Carver Museum’s Studio Arts Program for adults was created as an inclusive place for the creation of artwork informed by and grounded in the history of Black art and artists. Courses are taught by local professional artists, include both history and technique of the medium, and are small in class size allowing for discussions, experimentation, and artistic development. Participants are also able to visit and be inspired by local and national artists’ work exhibited throughout the Carver Museum Art Galleries.

Course offerings include DJ 101, relief printing, digital photography, and Afrocentric drawing.

Carver Summer Camp 2024

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Black History Month 

Black History Month 2023

Join us for the whole month of February at the Carver for an incredible calendar of events celebrating Black History Month! Here at the Carver, we celebrate Black History all year, but we're shining our brightest in February for our community. From African Drumming workshops to Black History Month Kid's Day, Carver Museum ATX is the place to celebrate Black History in Austin! Tap in to learn about all the exciting happenings all month long. 

     

     

     

Black History Month 2022

 

The CarverMuseumATX presents a community Block Party for Black History Month!

Join us for music, food, and a Melanated Marketplace Vendors’ showcase with DJ Urban Mello! With special performances by Shelbi Alexandria, J. Mill, and Andre Taylor. Free and open to the public.

 

Black History Month Kids’ Day! presents crafts, storytelling and activities to learn more about Black Heritage

Something for the entire family! We're focusing on this year’s Black History Month Theme “Black Health and Wellness” and featuring special guests: Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Don Tate, Black Girls Who Run Austin, Christopher Isom-Youth MOVEment Instructor, and CDF Freedom Schools Austin

Photographs by Madison Morris and Nicole Parker

Past Programs

Storytelling and the Social Landscape through the Photographic Lens

View the ONLINE EXHIBITION.

Timbuktu Y.O.U. Virtual After-School Program

Timbuktu Y.O.U. is a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) and photography-based virtual after-school program that touches on SEL (social and emotional learning) as well as gardening and leadership with our youth participants.

The program is for 6th-8th graders and is especially geared towards students of color. All kids welcome. Its name is inspired by Timbuktu, the center of learning for centuries in Mali, West Africa an empire founded by Mansa Musa 1,800 years ago.

Timbuktu Y.O.U. program dates are September 21 - December 17, 2020.  Spaces are limited.  Sessions will be via Zoom Rooms.

SCHEDULE:
Monday and Wednesday 4pm-6:30pm
Tuesday and Thursday 4pm-6pm

Important NOTE:
If interested in enrolling in all three sessions, $150 due in full upon registration.  For monthly payment options, enroll in individual sessions of interest.  Deadline for first session payment is upon registration (beginning August 18th).  Deadline for second session payment is Sept. 17th; and deadline for third session payment is October 15th. 

Timbuktu Y.O.U. will offer the following classes:
TEEN SUMMIT
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
AQUAPONICS 
AND MORE...

Click HERE for more information on how to register on Rectrac.  Click HERE for information on Financial Assistance through the City of Austin.  If financial aid approved email faith.weaver@austintexas.gov to let us know, so that it can be applied.  

We look forward to serving youth virtually with Timbuktu Y.O.U. afterschool.

Digital Kickback

 

Digital Kickback is a music series showcasing Black Austin-based DJs, musicians, and audiophiles to help you shake off the work week. Every Friday from 5:30-6:30pm, the Carver will go Live on Instagram with a musician to set the soundtrack for your weekend.

Make sure you’re following us on Instagram and have notifications turned on so you don’t miss a beat!

Digital Kickback line up:
April 10: DJ Cysūm
April 17: DJ Shani
April 24: Stefon Osae
May 1: Charles Moon

Black to the Future: Book Club

 

Black to the Future is a virtual book club focusing on works by Black authors on dystopian realities, alternate universes, and sci-fi. RSVP through Eventbrite here to access the web conferences.

Black to the Future's first meeting is on April 28, 2020 from 7pm to 9pm and will discuss Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler. Butler is a renowned author and is the first science fiction author to ever receive the “Genius Grant.” Parable of the Talents is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian reality wherein the United States is governed by an extremist fundamentalist Christian group. In a stark comparison to the current political climate, this 1995 novel maintains its cultural relevance in a new decade by exploring the dynamics of power, control, and enslaved labor within America.

Conference information for discussions TBA.

Cultural Aptitude

 

Cultural Aptitude is a conversation and training series designed to provide practical advice around navigating our new normal. Join us at 6pm on May 6 for a conversation with sustainability and self-sufficiency expert Christina Muhammad.

Phone conference info:

Phone number: 408-418-9388 // Access code: 622-275-062