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Panel Discussion: San Francisco’s 1858 Black Exodus | SF

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Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE
California Historical Society | 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

This opening event takes place on September 13, 2012, and not September 26, 2012 as was originally posted.

From September 13-16, 2012, Zaccho Dance Theatre will perform Sailing Away: San Francisco’s 1858 Black Exodus along Market Street and the California Historical Society will hold opening day discussions and reception at 5pm.

On opening day, a panel discussion and reception will be held in conjunction with scholars, historians, and local community leaders who will discuss San Francisco’s African American out migration then and now at 5pm at the California Historical Society. This panel discussion is co-presented by Zaccho Dance Theatre, the Museum of African Diaspora and the California Historical Society.

Sailing Away is a site-specific performance inspired by San Francisco’s early African American settlers. Created by Choreographer and Director Joanna Haigood, Sailing Away features eight prominent African Americans who lived and worked near Market Street during the mid-nineteenth century and evokes their participation in the mass exodus of African Americans from California in 1858.

Free performances occur from September 13-16, 2012 at 12pm, 1:30pm, and 3pm traveling along Market Street beginning at the Market & Powell Street Cable Car station.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, History, Lectures & Workshops, San Francisco
Address: 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA