Jazz Under a Simple Tree at the Ward : Music & Community Story Gathering

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Join us on Saturday (9/18) for a free evening of jazz and food, and share your story! Sponsored by Art of Black Miami, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, FIU Public Humanities Lab and S.E. Overtown / Parkwest CRA.

Our series of Story Gathering Saturdays, the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab team is partnering with Hampton Art Lovers to collect and preserve the oral histories of African-American families of the Great Migration. We will spend the evening gathering community stories at the Historic Rooming House Gallery, home to the current exhibition One Way Ticket: Movement, Migrations and Liberty, featuring the work of Langston Hughes & Jacob Lawrence. 

The evening will feature live jazz with The Simon Mogul Quartet and fish fry courtesy of Captain Gooch. One Way Ticket: Movement, Migrations and Liberty explores stories of freedom and liberty through the poetry of Langston Hughes and the featured artwork of Jacob Lawrence, with other works from Charles White, Basil Watson, John Biggers, Charles Alston, David Driskell, Leroy Campbell, Anthony Reed II (Mojo) and Marvin Weeks.