Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/meetup SMC 2024
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| When and Where | |
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| Date: | Friday, October 18th, 2024 |
| Time: | 12:00 PM PST- 3:00 PM PST |
| Address: | Room 119 & 214, SMC Art Department, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
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Black Lunch Table (BLT) will host an edit-a-thon at Santa Monica College's Art Department (Room 119 & 214) focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators, and art workers of the African Diaspora on Friday, October 18th, 2024 from 12:00 PM-3 PM. A training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.
Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.
Event description
[edit]The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking white male editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.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]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 SMC
[edit]The Art Department of Santa Monica College offers an extensive and very well-received program in Studio Art, Art History, and Design. The primary mission of the program is to prepare students for upper-division study at a four-year, two-year, university or art school and/or to earn an Associate in Arts degree. Secondary objectives include portfolio preparation for students seeking admission to the Arts and Entertainment Academy and other two-year vocational training programs.
Converge Vertex Exhibition Opening and BLT Photo Booth
[edit]Recognizing that Wikipedia is not the only platform that lacks information about the lives of Black artists, the BLT Photo Booth increases images of Black artists on Wikimedia Commons. To make notable artists that fall in the Wiki gaps more visible, BLT invites professional photographers to host a pop-up portrait studio at events and make that work open license for free use, edit and distribution.
A special pop-up photo studio will be hosted a few days before the Editathon!
- Event: Converge Vertex Exhibition Opening and BLT Photo Booth
- Date: Tuesday, October 15th
- Time: 6pm-8pm PST
- Location: Barrett Art Gallery, Performing Arts Center - Music Building, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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Kearra Amaya Gopee -
Kayla Richards -
Maria Jerusha Staack
Editathon Event details
[edit]- Date: Friday, October 18th, 2024
- Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Location: Room 119 & 214, SMC Art Department, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
- 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 edit-a-thon 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 visual artists of the African Diaspora associated with SMC 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!
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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:
- LIST TBD