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Resisting Cultural Erasure: Sharing Black Histories of the LES and Beyond Thursday, February 27th! 6:30pm-8pm, Free 70 E 4th Street, 1st Floor
In honor of Black History Month, join us for a conversation with Immanuel Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass!
M’Finda Kalunga ?Community Garden?, through an initiative led and organized by resident and educator Debra Jeffreys-Glass, has celebrated local Black history and shared the history of the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground at its annual Juneteenth festivities since 2004?.
In 2022, FAB began collaborating with Jeffreys-Glass and garden members to honor the unmarked Burial Ground. That work recently culminated in the commission and installation of HALO by artist Immanuel Oni.
Immanuel Oni is a first generation Nigerian-American artist whose work explores loss, memory, and its deep connection with space. His series, ‘Beyond Memorial‘, has engaged communities in Bushwick and Brownsville. Oni built a close working relationship with Jeffreys-Glass and M’Finda Kalunga Garden members over year in which he developed and refined HALO.
