Black Banjo Reclaimation Project Monthly Gatherings - NYC

A Black Affinity Space for Banjo Practice & Exploration

Calling out to Black Banjo players and learners in New York!

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project is extremely excited to announce that New York is officially the first of our new and growing regional chapters that will be holding monthly in-person gatherings.

Held at The Free Black Women's Library's historic site in Brooklyn, we encourage folks to register for this free event, bring your banjo and get connected with others on their banjo journey. All levels welcome!

Gatherings will include, sharing, practicing exercises, songs and cohesion and inclusion within the group.

Dates: 2/22, 3/22, 4/26

Registration is free but required.

The (BBRP) is a group of musicians and performers employing a multitude of tactics to advance African American and Black life through the pursuance of the traditional folk musical practices relating to the banjo. Our organizing leadership, along with participants in our programs, have harnessed plans and taken action towards the reclamation of the banjo firmly based in the racial, social, economic, historical, spiritual, earth-based and practical ways that music can be used as a form of cultural healing. BBRP takes a unique approach to fostering an environment of change-based community design at the root. By placing the banjo at the very center of our work we create and nurture an ancestral connection through the ways that playing, teaching and creating the instrument produces a tie to rich cultural heritage and the way wisdom is passed down through song.

(TFBWL) is a social art project that features a collection of over five thousand books written by Black women and Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a virtual Reading Club, a weekly book swap, and a wide array of workshops and free public programs.

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