EVENT Title: Musical Riot! A Call and Response
Hosted by Jerry Gant, Performances by Maurice Chesnut, Dancer, Shaka
Zulu Overdrive, Nadine LaFond of Swampedelica

Saturday, February 3, 2007
3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
EVENT Title: Black Renegade Remix: Spirits and Rebels
3:00 pm Film Screening Quilombo Country: Afro-Brazilian
Villages in the Twenty-First Century with Chuck D by Leonard Abrams (73
mins)

No other film currently in release addresses these communities
and illustrates all of these important Afro Brazilian contributions to
Brazilian and world culture.

Narrated by Chuck D, the legendary poet, scholar, media commentator and
front man of the iconic hip hop band
Public Enemy. www.quilombofilm.com/

4:30 pm Conversation, Slide and Artist Talk
Black Renegade Remix: Spirits, Rebels and Sex

Artists explore what it means to engage outsider" people,
ideas, traditions, forms and identities in their art practice and
community work.

These artists radically (re) define Home in the way they
reveal these cultures that are traditionally kept secret or hidden to
heal themselves, community and innovate art practice.
Participants: Wura Ogunji and sdnICHOLAS.

5:30 Break

6:30 Afro Punk by James Spooner
66-minute documentary that explores race identity within the punk scene.

7:45 Reception and Sound
Design by Lowell Craig spinning African Diaspora
beats, forms and sounds.





EXHIBITION INFORMATION:

Newark, NJ January 22, 2007- Gallery Aferro and REBORN proudly
present a two level multimedia group exhibition of 22 contemporary
artists and changemakers of African descent and those influenced by the
forms, traditions and history of the African Diaspora. Spanning more
than 11 countries these artists of the Caribbean, South America, Europe
and West Africa claim Home in a post -Civil Rights Movement era by
gathering, re-imagining and dreaming a deeper connected community albeit
complex - together.

Black Rock engages sight, sound, mind, and heart through art, music,
film and video, community panels and interactive workshops. It is an
explosive cultural exhibition of artists and cultural activists whose
work innovate cultural forms to engage our most challenging fears and
greatest visions of living as individuals within community of Home -
the self, local community, nation and world.

Black Rock features three large - scale installations including a life
size Black comics installation, a home being uprooted by its roots and
a vinyl record temple.

The second floor features two video projections and a gift shop.
Organized by independent artists/curators, Noelle
Lorraine Williams and Kevin Darmanie.

Black Rock is their fourth community-based exhibition featuring the work
of emerging and established contemporary artists examining our deepest
individual fears and greatest visions of living in community. Please
visit www.rebornhome .com for complete schedule and information.

The twentieth century revealed a tense relationship between the artist
of African descent and relevance of culture in their art practice.
Sometimes celebrated, often disdained but mainly debated this
exhibition illustrates that one can have a conversation within and
about Home and still be in the realm of the imaginary, the truthful the
visionary," stated Noelle Lorraine Williams (REBORN).

Gallery Aferro is located at 73 Market Street in downtown Newark. For
directions visit our website at www.aferro.org or
www.rebornhome .com. The Gallery is open Wednesday 12:00-4:00 PM,
Thursday and Friday 4:00 - 8:00 PM and Saturday 11:00 - 6:00.