Afrobeat

Join us for an Afrobeat-inspired Phillips after 5 hosted in collaboration with AFROPUNK Spaces! Enjoy music from Cheick Hamala Diabete and the Griot Street Band, a beer tasting from Soul Mega, and a taste of West Africa from Queensway Restaurant. Get crafty at the bracelet maker space featuring a drop-in workshop with DC’s Dwayne Lawson-Brown bka Crochet Kingpin. Learn about African Modernism in America, 1947-67 on a gallery tour with Camille Brown, Phillips Collection assistant curator. 

AFROPUNK is an integrated media platform anchored by a global music festival that celebrates Black culture and diversity through music, art, activism, and community. This collaboration marks the first AFROPUNK SPACES activation in Washington, DC, and underscores AFROPUNK’s strategic aim to leverage a Black-centered lens to inspire physical and virtual spaces where people can freely express themselves, connect with like-minded individuals, and explore their identities.

IMAGE: David C. Driskell (1931–2020, United States), Yoruba Forms #5, 1969, Oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 34 in. © Estate of David C. Driskell Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY and American Federation of Arts