Dinner and a Movie – Going To Mars:The Nikki Giovanni Project

Tickets for our Dinner and a Movie night are now live! Join us on Friday, March 14th, from 6–9:30 PM for a screening of Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, a documentary that offers an intimate portrait of Nikki Giovanni, a.k.a the People’s Poet.

The evening will feature a poetry and bookmaking workshop in partnership with OlaRonke Akinmowo, founder of the Free Black Women’s Library. Guided by Olaronke, we will be taught hands-on methods of DIY bookmaking and explore the depths of Giovanni’s use of the Black vernacular tradition in her poetry. 

Dinner for the night will be a selection of soul food catered by Just Soul.

A few community tickets are available for those who need support in covering the cost of tickets. Email programs@weeksvillesociety.org by Tuesday, March 11th to inquire.

This event is one of three in our month-long dedication to the luminaries who transitioned this past year, including Faith Ringgold, Lorraine O’Grady, and Judith Jamison. In the face of our present reality, we understand that the work they have left behind continues to nourish our imaginations and shape our collective consciousness. Their transitions remind us that legacy is a living force. We hope you join us this month in communion.

About OlaRonke Akinmowo

OlaRonke Akinmowo is an interdisciplinary artist who works in collage, papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and stop motion animation. She is also a Set Decorator/Dresser for TV and Film and the Creator/Director of The Free Black Women’s Library a Black Feminist social art project, literary hub, reading room and community carespace located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn which features a collection of 5000 books written by Black women and Black nonbinary folks, a period pantry, free store, weekly book swap, backyard garden, and a wide array of free public programs and creative workshops. Through her work she offers new and critical narratives on the constructs of race, gender, beauty, and sanity. She is an Afro-Surrealist fanatic, self proclaimed busy body, dance machine, and cultural worker who has been shaping space and building worlds of pleasure, safety and growth since 2015.