The Afrofuturist Period Room wiki campaign is a virtual edit-a-thon running throughout February 2022.
The launch event will be livestreamed Saturday February 5, 12-2 PM Eastern. Livestream on YouTube and Facebook
Video chapters include:
- Curator talks (at 0:10)
- Eliza Myrie, Black Lunch Table (0:32)
- Edit-a-thon (at 1:04)
- Sherri Antoine, AfroCROWD (at 1:43)
We'll have a follow-up event and showcase of work done over this month on February 27, 2 PM Eastern.
It focuses on Before Yesterday We Could Fly (Q109674835) as a particularly data-rich and intertextual exhibition that brings together historical, modern and contemporary African diaspora art and history, to be further developed as community crowdsourced resources on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art are hosting, as well as bringing together as partners the wiki groups AfroCROWD, Black Lunch Table, and Wikimedia New York City. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was also instrumental in curating the exhibition, as well as in the broader program of NYC edit-a-thons, and the Afrofuturist Teen Advisory Council established by both cultural institutions will be active in furthering the project going forward.
- Event page from the Met
- Join our Dashboard campaign here or by clicking the blue sign up link.
- See this page for more information and instructions on the Wikimedia NYC Discord server