Join The Africa Center for the first ever day-long Virtual Museum Mile Festival. The Africa Center joined the physical festival for the first time last year and we are very excited to be part of this year’s virtual iteration. We will be hosting a live-streamed conversation in partnership with the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), our partners for the African/American: Making the Nation’s Table exhibition. The talk will feature culinary historian and the exhibition’s curator, Jessica B. Harris and Pierre Thiam, who serves as an advisor for the exhibit. Thiam is also the executive chef and co-owner of Teranga, the fast-casual dining concept located inside The Africa Center. Harris and Thiam will discuss the exhibition, their careers as culinary ambassadors, and Harris' new book Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play.

This conversation will be live-streamed on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 5:00 PM EST on The African Center’s Instagram and Facebook pages 

Established in 1978 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts, the Museum Mile Festival serves as a model for similar events across the United States. Virtual Museum Mile Festival is presented in this convivial spirit, with the same goal of increasing public awareness of arts and culture, and bringing communities together in a socially responsible manner. The other participating institutions include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, and El Museo del Barrio. acclaimed author Michael Twitty (The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South) as he explores where food and identity intersect and diverge in their work and lives.