12pm-1:30 Tea Afar with April Banks

2pm-3:30 When we are lost, the land anchors us with Zoë Toledo & Freeland Livingston

At 12pm, visitors to Black—Still were invited to share in afternoon tea and collective storytelling, part of “Tea Afar,” led by artist April Banks. Tea is the medium for hospitality and is shared globally through many rich cultural traditions. For this event, we drank sweet tea in the southern Black tradition and created spaces of leisure through a collective storytelling experience. Like a lazy day on a front porch, we spun a tale that no one person could imagine alone!

“Tea Afar” was limited to 20 adults and intended to be an intimate experience.

At 2pm, M&A invited you to join us in a conversation on architecture, archives, land, and kinship. Led by Navajo designer Zoë Toledo, this community conversation was an opportunity to hear stories from the archive about the federal government's "Urban Indian Relocation" program as well as to pause and reflect on the Indigenous narratives that settlers and guests have been taught and know, especially within urban places. This collective gathering asked us how we can expand our understanding of urban place, architecture, and Los Angeles to include Indigenous communities, their stories, resilience, and ties to the land.

These events were free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.