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Daveed Baptiste: Ti Maché, A Fashion Installation
Extended Through December 30

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The Love Doctor Podcast with Guest Rachel Cargle

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The Pillars: MoCADA Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop

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Soil Episode 5: An AfroLatin Jazz Experience by DJ Underdog

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The Independents Podcast: Guinea

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Brooklyn Bronzes, Public Art by Kholisile Dhliwayo

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ADMISSIONS
Tickets are based on an 1hr and 15-minute time slot, and are booked on a first come, first serve basis.

COST
Children (under age 6) are FREE
EBT card-carriers $4
Seniors + People living with disabilities (chaperones are free) $5
Children (Age 6-17) and Students (all ages with valid student id) $8
Adults $15

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MoCADA Culture Lab
80 Hanson Place Brooklyn, NY 11217

Hours: Wednesday – Thursday, 12-7pm; Friday – Saturday, 12-8pm; Sunday, 12pm – 6pm

*MoCADA will be closed Thursday – Sunday November 23- 26, 2023*

MoCADA Ubuntu Community Sculpture Garden
48 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217

2024 Season Dates: Will reopen in Spring 2024!
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 7pm

MoCADA Abolition House on Governors Island
House 7A Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY 10004

2024 Season Dates: Will reopen in Spring 2024!
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12- 5pm

*Tickets are not required for entry. But you must RSVP for special events.

MoCADA Gallery + Performance Space @ L10
10 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217

Opening: Winter 2023
Hours: Wednesday – Thursday, 12-7pm; Friday – Saturday, 12-9pm; Sunday, 12pm – 6pm

Mission

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses art, education and advocacy as tools to celebrate the breadth of African culture, while fostering dialogue about the socioeconomic issues Black communities face to transform people and neighborhoods.

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MoCADA activates spaces, walls, and more to present exhibitions, public art, and other special artistic presentations that center Africa and connect the diaspora.

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The Pillars: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop

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Tune in to MoCADA Radio music mixes and podcasts, or watch films, performances, live events, and more from MoCADA on replay.

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Listen to an audio-diary based on a series of transformative days in the life of Dion as remembered by Detroit based BLK queer artist, digital curator, and writer, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. Dive into six episodes of this MoCADA Radio podcast to explore gender, sexual identity, performance, and American Blackness.

Fried Dynamite FM is the brainchild of Run P. aka Righteous Jones, featuring his ultra groovy host, Specks “Funky” Johnson, who take you on a Blacktastic joyride through soul music then and now in this MoCADA Radio podcast.

Celebrate the history of Africa via The Independents, a new MoCADA podcast produced by Mamoussa that explores the regional events that sparked revolutions, to the conversations, political speeches, and music that activated the pursuit for freedom.

Soil is a supernatural Jazz experience delivered by celebrated DJ Underdog for MoCADA Radio weaving the many fabrics of Jazz into quilts spanning geography, generations, and the cosmos alike.

Join MoCADA and special guests for solution-based convos about self-love, relationships, community, and more in this podcast moisturized by our host, Specks “Funky” Johnson. Tune in for joy, growth, and healing through honest down to earth discussions with The Love Doctor.

Whether it’s House, Blues, Bounce, Hip-Hop, Afrobeat, or Techno, Black music has birthed soundtracks for people all around the globe. The Audiophiles podcast on MoCADA Radio highlights these contributions via our favorite music-makers, curated by Run P..

A special Women's History Month edition of MoCADA

Talk to HIM is a collaborative public art installation and performance film conceived by the artists Imani Shanklin Roberts & Raya Kassisieh that interacts with masculinity head-on.

DaeQuan Alexander Collier explores the complexities of Black boyhood and its diminishing freedoms in this short film. What does it mean to feel #Blackboyjoy? To dream? To just be....free.

Explore the lasting legacy of Black women as organizers through the history and lens of The United Order of the Tents, a 154-year-old benefit society centered on abolition and dedicated to wellness in Black communities across America.

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MoCADA uses art as a tool to dispel misconceptions about Africa and to instill a sense of pride in those who share this identity. Dive into our educational initiatives.

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