Portraits in Color: Celebrating Blackness with Wee The People!
Sat, Mar 30
|Boston Athenæum
Come celebrate Boston freedom fighter Harriet Hayden, featuring an interactive read-aloud and art-making activity creating Black-affirming picture frames for our own portraits. Ages 6+.
Time & Location
Mar 30, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Boston Athenæum, 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108, USA
About the event
Because Black History Month is EVERY month! Join Wee The People for an activity-filled celebration of freedom fighter, political organizer, and giant of Boston's Black history, Harriet Hayden.
In the mid-1800s, Harriet and Lewis Hayden turned their Beacon Hill home into a refuge and major headquarters of the anti-slavery movement. Two portrait photo albums gifted to Harriet during this time -- now on view at the Boston Athenæum -- offer a rare glimpse into a vast network of Boston's Black activists and organizers, at a time when Black Americans began to use photography to reclaim their stories, identities, and lives.
Portraits in Color will feature an interactive read-aloud of the award-winning picture book "Take A Picture of Me, Mr. Van Der Zee!" followed by an art-making activity creating Black-affirming picture frames for our own portraits. Come through and keep Black History Month going 24/7/365!
Recommended for ages 6 and older.
To read more about the exhibition Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums, go to: www.bostonathenaeum.org/visit/exhibitions/harriet-hayden-albums/