BLACK LUNCH TABLE FNP
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Mission Statement
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an oral-history archiving project. Our primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT animates discourse and initiates a democratic rewriting of contemporary history around and among the people living this history. Organized around literal and metaphorical lunch tables, Black Lunch Table takes the lunchroom phenomenon as its starting point. Our roundtable sessions provide both physical space and allotted time for interdisciplinary and intergenerational discussions, bringing together a diversity of community members and fostering candid conversations. The Artists Roundtable curates Black artists into discussions, while the People’s Table invites participation from all community members. Our Wikipedia initiative includes workshops that mobilize the collective authoring of articles pertaining to the lives and works of Black artists. BLT has consistently provided a unique, critical platform for exchange by staging and recording community discussions at institutions internationally. Resource equity means equal access to knowledge, health, wealth, and social resources for everyone. It is not just representation but reparations. Resource equity is only possible if our stories are told by us, creating a record of our cultural, intellectual, and social contributions.
About This Cause
The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an oral-history archiving project. Our primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT animates discourse and initiates a democratic rewriting of contemporary history around and among the people living this history. First staged in 2005 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency, the project has grown by way of contributions from and collaborations with artists, digital humanities researchers, and Wikipedians. BLT currently includes two roundtable series’, an online oral history archive, and a Wikipedia initiative. Much like its creation of physical spaces that foster community and generate critical dialogue, BLT creates a digital space for art, Black studies and social justice issues. BLT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS: Artist Roundtable The Artists Roundtable, our founding initiative, provides a forum for dialogue around critical issues directly affecting our communities, reifying the visibility of connections that exist between contemporary Black artists. People’s Table At the People’s Table, community members participate in conversation around site-specific sociopolitical issues affecting historically disenfranchised populations. This session makes visible the connections that exist within local communities, while laying out new productive relationships to continue the movement for dismantling institutional racism. Wikipedia Initiative Wikipedia estimates that 77% of their editors are white; 91% of editors of men. Our work shifts this demographic. At our workshops, we train participants to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of black artists. BLT Wikimedia work ultimately empowers people to write their own history. The Archive Our roundtables conversations are audio recorded. We transcribe and metadata tag the conversations from the individual tables for inclusion on our dynamic searchable online archive. The BLT archive is a unique and innovative fusion of Linked Open Data (LOD) principles, network-based interface and analysis, and user-generated content and curation. As with its creation of physical spaces that foster community and generate critical dialogue, the archive provides a digital space for a community-driven approach to art, historical authorship, and discourse on Black studies and social justice issues. We create, in essence, a browsable network of linked concepts, anchored in our recorded roundtable session and accompanied by a transcript of these conversations, which show their relation not only to the individual, but to broader discourse unfolding within online spaces.