Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/East Yard

Black Lunch Table
in Arima
	Arima, Trinidad & Tobago
When and Where
Date:	Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time:	2-6PM
Address:	27 Prince St, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago;

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon in Trinidad & Tobago focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Saturday, March 23, 2019 2-6pm at East Yard, (27 Prince St, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago). 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 edit

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 Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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 edit

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 East Yard edit

A creative hub designed to connect and engage the local community on a regular and ongoing basis by championing creativity in all its forms.

https://www.caribbeanfaff.com/east-yard

Event details edit

Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time: 2-6pm
Location: 27 Prince St, Arima, 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
Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda edit

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 edit

Possible articles to edit 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 edit

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

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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
Adele Todd	female	visual artist graphic designer university teacher
Allana Clarke	female	visual artist		Brooklyn
Brianna McCarthy	female	visual artist multimedia artist		Trinidad and Tobago
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
Jasmine Thomas Girvan	female	jeweller visual artist sculptor	Saint Andrew	Trinidad and Tobago
Karyn Olivier	female	visual artist
Kearra Amaya Gopee	female	visual artist photographer	Trinidad and Tobago
Kriston Banfield	male	artist painter visual artist		Trinidad and Tobago
Kynaston McShine	male	art curator	Port of Spain Trinidad	New York City
LeRoy Clarke	male	artist writer	Belmont	Trinidad and Tobago New York City
Marlon Darbeau	male	designer artist	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago
Marlon James	male	photographer	Kingston	Trinidad and Tobago
Maro Morrison	female	visual artist	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago
Marsha Pearce	female	theorist researcher visual artist		Trinidad and Tobago
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
Rodell Warner	male	visual artist graphic designer photographer		Trinidad and Tobago
Roger McTair	male	writer filmmaker university teacher poet film director	Trinidad and Tobago	Toronto
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.

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