Nerdy Thursdays "Plant Life" 7.21.22

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BGX Gallery | 192 Front Street NY, NY 10038 | 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Join BGX for first Nerdy Thursdays event of the Summer Season where we'll be discussing Black Visions.

6:30pm to 7:30pm | Mingle, Drinks, and Music w/ DJ Badz

7:30pm to 8:30pm | Conversation with Kofi Thomas moderated by Isa Reyes

8:40 to 9:00 | Performance by Waquia Abdul-Kareem

9:00 pm to 9:30pm | Mingle, Drinks, and Music w/ DJ Badz

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NERDY THURSDAYS is Black Gotham Experience’s new take on the after-work mixer. Come and enjoy complimentary signature drinks, a thematic soundtrack by the featured DJ, check out our library, and meet new people.

THINK / TALK / MIX / MINGLE

BGX Gallery

Front St between Fulton & John Street / Seaport District (Manhattan)

Train Access: A, C, 2, 3, 4, 5, J, or Z to Fulton Street.

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*Segments of the experience may be live-streamed to and/or recorded.*

About our special guests:

Born to Caribbean parents, Kofi Thomas is a community builder, educator and farmer in Bushwick, Brooklyn. One of his main focuses is reconnecting people with each other and with the land. He utilizes green spaces as a vehicle for environmental and racial justice.

Waqia Abdul-Kareem is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist and interdisciplinary scholar who holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Their Ph.D. research looks at the historical, geographical, and ecological entanglement between blackness and multispecies life in South Carolina's Lowcountry region; while their ongoing project, Black Oceanic Trans*formation–combining archival research with sound, video, performance, and storytelling– aims to visualize the trans-Atlantic Ocean as a Black queer-trans* utopian site of becoming. Waqia’s deep affinity for the more-than-human world first materialized during their time working on a small permaculture island farm off the coast of Maine, as well as their time as a farm educator and food justice advocate in Baltimore city. They have exhibited work at such renowned institutions as the Hirshhorn Museum, Abrons Art Center, Movement Research, Dixon Place, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.