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CIRCA Presents: Black Lunch Table - Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Friday, October 9, 2020 · 1 - 4 PM
Over three Fridays in October 2020, BLT will be virtual artists-in-residence at CIRCA @ UMBC
Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon training participants to make quality contributions to Wikipedia focusing on Black artists hailing from or living in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The purpose of this radical archiving is to fill gaps in this highly accessed archive and in the larger (art) historical record. Please go to this link to for the Wikipedia workshop.
Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an oral-history archiving project whose primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT animates discourse and initiates a democratic rewriting of contemporary history around and among the people living this history. Organized around literal and metaphorical lunch tables, BLT hosts roundtable sessions to provide both space and time for interdisciplinary and intergenerational discussions. Their signature Artists Roundtables invite Black artists to roundtable discussions, while their People’s Tables invites participation from all community members. The roundtable conversations are audio recorded, transcribed, and metadata tagged for integration into their growing online archive. The archive is an aggregator, cross-pollinating discourse among many individuals and institutions. BLT also hosts Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to mobilize the collective authoring of articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black artists. BLT is supported by Creative Capital Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation, and was founded by artists Heather Hart and Jina Valentine.
