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Black Lunch Table
edit-a-thon w/artist Tamika Galanis
When and Where
Date:Thursday, August 20, 2020
Time:Noon EST
Address:VIRTUAL bit.ly/blacklunchtablemeet
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Join us on August 20th at 12PM EST for The Archives Aren't Silent a presentation by artist and documentarian Tamika Galanis!

Event description

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Tamika Galanis will outline the process of the repatriation of the Bahamian materials from the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress and how the people in this 85-year-old collection were most instrumental in its return. The subsequent exhibit, Homecoming: Talking to the Dead, was on view at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas from January to April of 2019.⠀

Afterwards, stay for a Wikipedia editing session with BLT! All skill levels welcome. This event is also supported by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator and Miami Dade County. Organized by BLT proxy Kearra Amaya Gopee.⠀⠀

Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Tamika’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Tamika documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene in the historical archive. This work counters the widely held paradisiacal view of the Caribbean, the origins of which arose post-emancipation through a controlled, systematic visual framing and commodification of the tropics. Tamika’s photography-based-practice includes traditional documentary work and new media abstractions of written, oral, and archival histories.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.


History of The Black Lunch Table

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 13 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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Event details

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  • Date: Thursday, August 20, 2020
  • Time: Noon EST
  • Location: Virtual join at bit.ly/blacklunchtablemeet
  • Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
    • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
    • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
  • What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
  • Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
  • Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
  • Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Onboarding Presentation

Agenda

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  • Presentation by Tamika Galanis
  • Brief Q & A
  • Editing time
  • Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
  • For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

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Possible articles to edit

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Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on XXXXX. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

  • Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

  • suggest names here


Black artists with ties to the Caribbean

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These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidelines before you create a new page. Thanks!

This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article Country of Citizenship Occupation Place of birth Residence
Adele Todd female visual artist
graphic designer
university teacher
Allana Clarke female visual artist Brooklyn
Brianna McCarthy female visual artist
multimedia artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Denyse Thomasos female painter Port of Spain
Geoffrey Holder male actor
stage actor
television actor
writer
costume designer
choreographer
theatre director
film actor
Port of Spain
Jasmine Thomas Girvan female jeweller
visual artist
sculptor
Saint Andrew Trinidad and Tobago
Karyn Olivier female visual artist
Kearra Amaya Gopee female visual artist
photographer
Trinidad and Tobago
Kriston Banfield male artist
painter
visual artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Kynaston McShine male art curator Port of Spain
Trinidad
New York City
LeRoy Clarke male artist
writer
Belmont Trinidad and Tobago
New York City
Marlon Darbeau male designer
artist
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Marlon James male photographer Kingston Trinidad and Tobago
Maro Morrison female visual artist Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Marsha Pearce female theorist
researcher
visual artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Melinda Mollineaux female photographer London Trinidad
Lethbridge
Ottawa
Michael Fernandes male experimental artist Trinidad Trinidad
Michèle Pearson Clarke female writer
filmmaker
Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto
Natalie Wood female multimedia artist
curator
Trinidad Trinidad
Toronto
Nicole Awai female visual artist
media artist
Port of Spain Austin
Brooklyn
Rodell Warner male visual artist
graphic designer
photographer
Trinidad and Tobago
Roger McTair male writer
filmmaker
university teacher
poet
film director
Trinidad and Tobago Toronto
Sandra Brewster female visual artist
art education
community organizer
multimedia artist
Toronto Pickering
Port of Spain
St. Norbert, Winnipeg
Cape Town
Wendell McShine male painter
sculptor
animator
installation
Trinidad
End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

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Where to start...
 
  1. Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!
  2. Follow instructions to upload your images here...
  • Create or update Wikidata!
Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
  1. Go to Wikidata
  2. Read Wikidata's Introduction!
  3. Search for the person or subject
  4. If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
  5. Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
  6. To add a field, click 'Add Statement'
Wikidata + AuthorityControl
  • Create or update Authority Control!
Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)
  1. Go to VIAF.org
  2. Search for person (last name, first name)
  3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
  4. Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
  5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
  6. Refresh Wikipedia page
  • Click here for many more editing resources


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Attendees

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Nikitag94 (talk) 17:10, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

dduncombe (talk) 17:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]