BGIAS San Francisco @ SWIM Gallery

BGIAS San Francisco, join us for a special meetup! Join the lovely Auttrianna Ward (Curator + Filmmaker) and Cheryl Derricotte (Artist) for a guided walkthrough of "THE REMEDY IS SOLIDARITY: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right" at SWIM Gallery from 11AM-1PM. About the exhibition- Volume 1.1: Too Much Like Right aims to explore and generate new dialogue around the history, displacement, trauma, and celebration of San Francisco's Black community. Curated by fourth-generation San Francisco native Auttrianna Ward with Malik Seneferu, a celebrated artist, activist, and San Francisco native serving as the Community Archivist in Residence, the exhibition centers around Ward’s experimental short film titled Too Much Like Right alongside works by artists Taína Cruz, Cheryl Derricotte, and Hannah Waiters that explore materiality as a means of connecting and highlighting the exclusion of Black figures in San Francisco historiography, and photographs by Greg Gaar and Barry Shapiro. The film Too Much Like Right is deeply personal for Ward, a descendant of the renowned Rogers family of activists, leaders, and artists who settled in the Fillmore and Bayview Hunters Point Districts during the Great Migration. It asks San Francisco if it is willing to do what is just or if that would be “too much like right,” sparking a vital dialogue about reparations in San Francisco, and more broadly about building community wealth across the African diaspora. The exhibition and its adjacent public programming form the second volume in California of THE REMEDY IS SOLIDARITY: A Global Multimedia Anthology on Reparations produced by ZEAL’s Co-founder and Principal - Cultural Design, Allen Kwabena Frimpong in support of the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee. The exhibition is part of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week.