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Black Lunch Table
in Port of Spain

Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
When and Where
Date:	Sunday, March 10, 2019
Time:	11AM-2PM
Address:	80 Roberts Street Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host its first edit-a-thon in Trinidad & Tobago focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Sunday, March 10, 2019 11am-2pm at Alice Yard (80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain). A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

Photographer, Kearra Amaya Gopee, will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! If you have a hotspot to share, bring that too! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of artists from the African Diaspora from Trinidad & Tobago. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 13 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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About Alice Yard

Alice Yard is the backyard space of the house at 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

This was once the house of Sean Leonard’s great-grandmother. Four generations of children played and imagined in this yard, and now we continue this tradition. Alice Yard is a space for creative experiment, collaboration, and improvisation.

Alice Yard is administered and curated by architect Sean Leonard, artist Christopher Cozier, and writer and editor Nicholas Laughlin, with the help of a growing network of creative collaborators. Read more about us here. Alice Yard is a non-profit organisation incorporated under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago.

Since 2008, Alice Yard has run a residency programme hosting artists, curators, and other creative practitioners

More here.

Event details

• Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019
• Time: 11am-2pm
• Location: Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street
  Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
  • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
  • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
• What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
• Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #AliceYard
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
• For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

• Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important Jamaican visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   denotes Infobox is needed

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

• suggest names here

Trinidad & Tobago-affiliated artists

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Denyse Thomasos	female	painter	Port of Spain
Geoffrey Holder	male	actor stage actor television actor writer costume designer choreographer theatre director film actor	Port of Spain
Kynaston McShine	male	curator	Port of Spain Trinidad	New York City
Melinda Mollineaux	female	photographer	London	Trinidad Lethbridge Ottawa
Michael Fernandes	male	experimental artist	Trinidad	Trinidad
Michèle Pearson Clarke	female	writer filmmaker	Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago Toronto
Natalie Wood	female	multimedia artist curator	Trinidad	Trinidad Toronto
Nicole Awai	female	visual artist media artist	Port of Spain	Austin Brooklyn
Sandra Brewster	female	visual artist art education community organizer multimedia artist	Toronto	Pickering Port of Spain St. Norbert, Winnipeg Cape Town
Wendell McShine	male	painter sculptor animator installation	Trinidad

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

Add an Infobox! Adding images! Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different! Follow instructions to upload your images here... Create or update Wikidata! Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Go to Wikidata Read Wikidata's Introduction! Search for the person or subject If none exists, you can 'Create a new item' Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal. To add a field, click 'Add Statement' Wikidata + AuthorityControl Create or update Authority Control! Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

Extended content
Alphabetical by first letter denotes Infobox added  Pages improved Pages created Sandbox articles started Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard Articles Created: 1 Articles Edited: 1 Total Edits: 1 Editors: 6 Words Added: N/A Article Views: N/A Commons Uploads: 11 photos uploaded to Commons under Black Lunch Table 2019 category/

References

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Fishantena (talk) 16:44, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

• Xantefwe (talk) 18:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• Nikitag94 (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• CaribDataWorks (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• Trini.lise (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• Hakka82 (talk) 18:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• Hi There All (talk) 18:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 21:16, 23 March 2019 (UTC)