Founded in 2010 to celebrate the impact of the African Diaspora on New York, Black Gotham Experience (BGX) is honored to present Council 400, an eight-week engagement commemorating the African Diaspora’s impact on the territory of New York City from 1624 to 2024 from October 10th to November 30th.
A group exhibition at BGX Gallery will anchor our exploration opening Thursday October 24th 6-9pm
The Council 400 group exhibition will take place in the Seaport just a few blocks from Wall Street. This exhibition will anchor a conversation of ancestral memories that have been made obscure through colonization and enslavement. There will be an oral history station in the exhibition for scholars, creatives, and eclectic minds to remember together; leaving a mark at this historic moment for future generations.
Our longest running program that gathers people nerdy about a range of topics. This fall selection of Nerdy Thursdays we will center Lorraine Hansberry so pick up a copy of Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry and pull up.
10.10 | 10.17 | 10.24 | 10.31 | 11.07 | 11.14
Office Hours
A new program taking place on Fridays where we host a conversations with pedagogues on themes about the African Diaspora.
10.25 | 11.01 | 11:08 | 11.15 | 11.22
Reflections + Projections
Taking place on Saturdays we present a wellness practitioner in the afternoon and film screenings in the evening.
10.12 | 10.19 | 10.26 | 11.02 | 11.08 | 11.16 | 11.23
About Black Gotham Experience
Black Gotham Experience (BGX) is a creative intervention that elevates the impact of the African Diaspora. We establish space to revisit untold and suppressed stories through a practice that invites people to walk, talk, and reimagine the past to expand public consciousness. We know that history is not an unbiased collection of records but a cycle of events that we participate in collectively. We are creatives building intentional experiences at the intersection of aesthetics and scholarship to learn, heal, and remember together.
Our co-presenting partners are the South Street Seaport Museum and Big City Tourism.