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Please check our upcoming events page for future events.
Past events[edit]
2024 events[edit]
- January 28th, 2024: BLT Office Hours, online
- February 25th, 2024: BLT Office Hours, online
- March 24th, 2024: BLT Office Hours, online
- March 27th, 2024: BLT @ University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia, PA
- April 5th, 2024: Botho Wiki Club - Botho University, Botswana
- April 28th, 2024: BLT Office Hours, online
- May 3rd, 2024: Palapye BLT Editathon - Botswana International University Of Science And Technology (BIUST), Botswana
- May 11th, 2024: BLT "Beyond the Canvas Highlighting Black Artists on Wikipedia", Owerri, Nigeria
- May 14th, 2024: Visibility of Black Artists, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria
2023 events[edit]
- January 29th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- January-February, 2023: BLT Bingo, BLT x Pace Gallery
- February 24th, 2023: BLT @ Pratt Institute Anti-Racism Symposium, New York, NY
- February 25th, 2023: BLT x Black Shell Studio Photo Booth, Orlando, FL
- February 26th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- March 26th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- March-April, 2023: BLT Bingo, Caribbean artists
- April 15th, 2023: Art + Feminism x BLT Photo Booth, Houston, TX
- April 30th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- May 19th, 2023: BLT Editathon @ Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
- May 20th, 2023: BLT Photo Booth @ Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
- May 31st, 2023: Wiki Artist Workshop, Online
- May-June, 2023: BLT Bingo, artists who have passed on
- May 28th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- May 31st, 2023 Artists on Wiki Workshop, online
- June 25th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- July 30th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- August 27th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- September-October, 2023: BLT Bingo, artists making work with or about sound
- September 24th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- October 21st, 2023: BLT Edit-a-Thon at IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, Indianapolis, IN
- October 22nd, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
- November 19th, 2023: BLT Office Hours, online
2022 events[edit]
- January 23rd, 2022: BLT January Office Hours
- February 5, 2022: "Before Yesterday We Could Fly", Met Museum X BLT X WikiNYC X AfroCrowd, New York, NY
- February 20, 2022: BLT Office Hours
- February 27, 2022: BLT: LIVE w/ Anisa Olufemi on IG @blacklunchtable
- February 27, 2022: "Before Yesterday We Could Fly", Closing event, New York, NY
- January-February, 2022: BLT Bingo, Futurism
- March 6, 2022: BLT: Live w/ Daonne Huff on IG @blacklunchtable
- March 27, 2022: BLT Office Hours
- April 2+3, 2022: BLT @ Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- April 6, 2022: ARLISS Conference, Chicago, IL
- April 24, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- March-April, 2022: BLT Bingo, red links
- May 22, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- May-June, 2022: BLT Bingo, painters
- May 24 to June 30, 2022: BLT Wiki edit-a-thon (IRL & online) + contest in Nigeria
- June 25, 2022: BLT @ Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
- June 25, 2022: BLT Juneteenth Photobooths in Lawrence, KS & Seattle, WA
- June 26, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- July 23, 2022: BLT Wiki edit-a-thon #1 in Botswana
- August 19, 2022: Black Lunch Table Photo Booth w/ BLIXEL: The (Re)Stock Image Project and UF College of the Arts, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Center, Gainesville, FL
- August 24, 2022: BLT Photo Booth at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
- August 27, 2022: BLT Wiki edit-a-thon #2 in Botswana
- August 28, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- July-August, 2022: BLT Bingo, performance
- August 28, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- September 25, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- September-October, 2022: BLT Bingo, public art and installation
- September 25th, 2022: BLT Office Hours, online
- October 6th, 2022: BLT Workshop at Illingsworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
- October 22, 2022: Wiki panel discussion in Botswana
- December 8, 2022: BLT Photo Booth at ELA-Espaço Luanda Arte, Luanda, Angola
- November-December, 2022: BLT Bingo, technologists
2021 events[edit]
- January 16th, 2021: BLT @ Oxbow II
- January 17th, 2021: BLT monthly online edit-a-thon
- February, 2020: February BLT Bingo
- February 6th, 2021: Online edit-a-thon @ Twin Cities arts, Minneapolis, MN
- February 13, 2021: Online edit-a-thon @ College Art Association, Annual Conference, New York, NY
- February 28, 2021: Black History Everyday edit-a-thon, online
- March 14, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Pamela Council on IG @blacklunchtable
- March 21, 2021: BLT: Topic Focus w/ Alexandria Lockett
- March 28, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- March, 2021: March BLT Bingo
- April 4, 2021: BLT Virtual Photo Booth w/ Andrea Cauthen
- April 11, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Anna Martine Whitehead on IG @blacklunchtable
- April 25, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon w/ Noircir Wikipédia
- April, 2021: April BLT Bingo
- May 16, 2021: BLT Live w/ Norman Teague on IG @blacklunchtable
- May 22, 2021: Reconstructions: BLT + MoMA edit-a-thon
- May 23, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- May, 2021: May BLT Bingo w/ 21c
- June 27, 2021: Online edit-a-thon w/ Tern Gallery
- June, 2021: June BLT Bingo
- Juneteenth Photobooths Coast to Coast: Houston, Chicago, New York, Online
- July 11, 2021: BLT Live w/ Ally Caple on IG @blacklunchtable
- July 25, 2021:BLT monthly online edit-a-thon
- July 31, 2021: Online edit-a-thon w/ Wa Na Wari and The Grocery, Seattle, WA
- August 1, 2021: BLT Live w/ Marvin Touré on IG @blacklunchtable
- August 22, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- August, 2021: August BLT Bingo
- August, 2021: August International Writing Contest
- September 19, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Dana Robinson on IG @blacklunchtable
- September 26, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- September, 2021: September BLT Bingo
- October 3, 2021: BLT: Live w/ WORK/PLAY on IG @blacklunchtable
- October 9, 2021: BLT Photobooth@ Skowhegan's 75th Anniversary Block Party, New York, NY
- October 17, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Shawné Michaelain Holloway on IG @blacklunchtable
- October 24, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- October, 2021: October BLT Bingo
- November 7, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Mark Fleuridor on IG @blacklunchtable
- November BLT Bingo
- November 6-12th, 2021: Wikimedia Commons Photo Drive Los Angeles, CA and online
- November 28, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
- December 5, 2021: BLT: Live w/ Ava Hassinger on IG @blacklunchtable
- December 19, 2021: Monthly online edit-a-thon
2020 events[edit]
- Thursday, February 13, 2020 CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Friday, February 14, 2020 CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Black History Everyday, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- Tuesday, February 25, 2020 SAIC and Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL
- Tuesday, March 3, 2020 BLT at MITH @ UMD, College Park, MD
March 14, 2020 A + F, MoMA, BLT, New York, NY cancelled- April 5, 2020, BLT @ Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL *online edit-a-thon*
- April 12, 2020, Wiki for Art educators online
April 17, 2020 Black is Tech Conference, New York, NY cancelled- April 18, 2020, BLT: Bacon + Lettuce + Tomato
- April 19, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon at
- April 26, 2020 BLT:Live André D. Singleton on IG @blacklunchtable
- April 27, 2020 BLT @ Davidson College, Davidson, NC *online edit-a-thon*
- April, 2020 Black History and Women's History Month Bingo
- May, 2020 May BLT Bingo
- May 3, 2020 Topic focus: Wiki Commons for photographers
- May 10, 2020 BLT: Live Aay Preston-Myint on IG @blacklunchtable
- May 16, 2020 BLT: Bacon + Lettuce + Tomato
- May 17, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon
- May 24, 2020 BLT: Live Ariel Jackson w/ Michael J. Love on IG @blacklunchtable
- May 31, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon
June, 2020, ALA Conference, Chicago, IL, cancelled- June, 2020 June BLT Bingo
- June 7, 2020 BLT: Live Xenobia Bailey on IG @blacklunchtable
- June 14, 2020 BLT: Topic Focus w/ Ireashia Bennett
- June 21, 2020 BLT: Live Kenya (Robinson) w/ Rob Robinson on IG @blacklunchtable
- June 28, 2020 BLT: Topic Focus w/ Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
- July, 2020 July BLT Bingo
- July 5, 2020 BLT: Live Sarah Workneh on IG @blacklunchtable
- July 12, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon
- July 19, 2020 BLT: Live Nikita Gale on IG @blacklunchtable
- July 26, 2020 BLT: Topic Focus w/ Alexandria Lockett
- August, 2020 August BLT Bingo
- August 2, 2020 BLT: Live Jeffrey Sims w/Andrea Chung on IG @blacklunchtable
- August 9, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon
- August 16, 2020 BLT: Live Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi on IG @blacklunchtable
- August 20, 2020 BLT: Topic Focus w/ Tamika Galanis
- August 20, 2020 BLT @ Rutgers U Alumni Association
- August 23, 2020 BLT: Topic Focus w/ Catherine Feliz
- August 30, 2020 BLT: Live Damon Locks on IG @blacklunchtable
- September, 2020 September Red Rush Contest
- September, 2020 September BLT Bingo
- September 8, 2020 Scholar Strike with Rutgers and SAIC online
- September 27, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon
- October, 2020 October BLT Bingo
- October 9, 2020 BLT@University of Maryland CIRCA, Maryland, online edit-a-thon
- October 17, 2020 BLT @ Vancouver Art Book Fair, online edit-a-thon
- October 18, 2020 BLT: Live Ilana Harris-Babou,on IG @blacklunchtable 1PM EST
- October 25, 2020 Online Edit-a-thon w/ U of Wisconsin-Madison
- October 27, 2020 BLT @ PCAD, online edit-a-thon
- November, 2020 November BLT Bingo
- November 3, 2020 BLT@Wa Na Wari, online edit-a-thon
- November 12, 2020 Penn Fisher Fine Arts Library, online edit-a-thon
- November 22, 2020 Online edit-a-thon
- December, 2020 December BLT Bingo
- December 20, 2020 BLT: Live Shani Peters on IG @blacklunchtable
- December 27, 2020 Online edit-a-thon and Zoom Photobooth
Missed any of our BLT Live or Topic Focus sessions? Watch all of them HERE!
2019 events[edit]
- Last Sunday of each month at noon EST, BLT Monthly online meetup
- Friday, January 25, 2019: A+F & BLT @ Glass Curtain, Chicago, IL
- Saturday, February 9, 2019: Black History Everyday @ Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
- Tuesday, February 26, 2019: WikiNYC+Black Lunch Table @ BMCC, New York, NY
- Saturday, March 2, 2019: Photobooth @ Art+Feminism x MoMA, New York, NY
- Sunday, March 3, 2019: Art+Feminism with Kickstarter & Black Lunch Table, Brooklyn, NY
- Sunday, March 10, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ Alice Yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
- Wednesday, March 13, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ RISD Fleet Library, Providence, RI
- Saturday, March 16, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
- Saturday, March 23, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ 2019 REAL Symposium @ Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Saturday, March 23, 2019: Black Lunch Table at East Yard, Arima, Trinidad & Tobago
- Friday, April 5, 2019: UPenn Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia, PA
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019: Black Lunch Table at Arte Público Press, Houston, TX
- Saturday, May 11, 2019: Black Lunch Table at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
- Friday, May 17, 2019: Black Lunch Table at University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
- Saturday, May 18, 2019: Black Lunch Table at Red Bull Arts, Detroit, MI
- Spring 2019: Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Art, Jamaica
- Friday, May 24, 2019: Black Lunch Table at University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
- Friday, May 31, 2019: Black Lunch Table at University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
- Sunday, June 9, 2019: Black Lunch Table at OxBow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan
- Saturday, June 29, 2019: The Af-Am Library at The Gregory School, Houston, TX
- Tuesday, August 13, 2019: WMF Strategy Salon @ Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
- Tuesday, October 1, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ The New School's Centennial Festival, New York, NY
- Wednesday, October 2, 2019: Black Lunch Table @ The New School's Centennial Festival, New York, NY
- Friday-Monday, November 8-11, 2019: WikiConference North America, Boston, MA
- Saturday, November 16, 2019: Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago, IL
2018 events[edit]
- Thursday, January 11, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ Triangle, New York, NY
- Sunday, January 14, 2018: BLT @ Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC, New York, NY – panel at 10:30 am at the Ace Hotel
- Saturday, February 3, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY – 12:00 pm-6:00 pm
- Thursday, February 8, 2018: Black History EVERYDAY with Black Lunch Table: The CHI + NYC – Two Editathons IN TANDEM: Black History EVERYDAY with Black Lunch Table @ NYU Poly Digital Futures Lab with Triangle, New York City AND Black History EVERYDAY with Black Lunch Table @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Tuesday, February 27, 2018: BLT @ ARLIS/NA 2018 Conference, New York, NY – "Thinking Outside the (Library) Box: Using Your Librarian Skills for the Public Good," ARLIS/NA panel at 1:30 pm at the Hilton: Gramercy West
- Sunday, March 4, 2018: BLT co-hosts Art+Feminism at Kickstarter, New York, NY
- Saturday, March 10, 2018: BLT x Art+Feminism @Triangle, Triangle Arts Association, New York, NY
- Sunday, April 1, 2018: VW Sunday Sessions with Art+Feminism at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
- Wednesday April 11, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ METRO Library Council for "Dismantling the Dominant Narrative: Reframing History at the Black Lunch Table" , New York, NY
- Saturday, April 21, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ Queens Central Library as part of Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points with No Longer Empty, Queens, NY -- details to come.
- Tuesday, June 19, 2018: Junteenth at the MCA!,
- now until Tuesday, June 19, 2018: Black Lunch Table JUNETEENTH Photo Challenge, online
- Monday, July 9, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ The High Line, New York, NY
- Tuesday, July 17, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, SA
- Friday, July 20, 2018: Black Lunch Table meetup @ Wikimania 2018, Cape Town
- Friday July 27, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ Bridge Books on Commissioner St, Johannesburg
- Sunday July 29, 2018: Black Lunch Table @ Bridge Books in Maboneng, Johannesburg
- Monday, August 20, 2018: Surfacing Black Life in Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
- Saturday, September 15, 2018: BLT @ SI Black Heritage Family Day, Staten Island, NY
- Wednesday, September 19, 2018: BLT @ Schomburg with SMH, Harlem, NY
- Saturday, September 22, 2018: BLT @ Fences Show, Staten Island, NY
- Tuesday, October 2, 2018: BLT @ Raised_on_the_Internet, Chicago, IL
- Saturday, October 27, 2018: BLT @ Magnum Foundation, New York, NY
- Saturday, November 10, 2018: BLT @ Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
- October - November, 2018: Months of Africa Cinema Contest, with AfroCine online
- Saturday, December 8, 2018: Kingston, Jamaica 1, Kingston, Jamaica
- Saturday, December 15, 2018: Kingston, Jamaica 2, Kingston, Jamaica
- Saturday, December 22, 2018: Kingston, Jamaica 3, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 events[edit]
- Sunday, January 15, 2017: Wikipedia Day 2017 @ Ace Hotel New York, New York, NY – Art Panel
- Saturday, January 28, 2017: Her Girl Friday + Lenny Letter Women Journos Unconference & Editathon @ ThoughtWorks, New York, NY – Black Lunch Table presentation
- Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
- Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Terrain Gallery, WA, Spokane, WA
- Monday, February 27, 2017: Black Lunch Table Black WikiHistory Month @ Creative Capital, NYC, New York, NY
- Saturday, March 11, 2017: Art+Feminism @ MoMA, New York, NY
– AfroCROWD + Black Lunch Table projects at 2:00 pm
– Notability & Structural Racism/Sexism Workshop at 4:00 pm - Sunday, March 12, 2017: Black Lunch Table co-hosts Art+Feminism @ Kickstarter HQ, Brooklyn, NY
- Friday, March 17, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ University of Toronto, Scarborough, Scarborough, Toronto CANADA
- Saturday, March 18, 2017: Black Lunch Table hosts Art+Feminism @ McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto, CANADA
- Saturday, March 25, 2017: AllRise @ UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
- Saturday, April 1, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
- Friday April 21, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Boston, Day 1, Boston, MA
- Saturday, April 22, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Boston, Day 2, Boston, MA
- Thursday, May 11, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Telling Untold Histories, Newark, NJ
- Sunday, May 21, 2017: Black Lunch Table joins Wikimedia New York for Met Open Access Initiative @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Thursday, June 22, 2017: Black Lunch Table + Wiki Loves Pride 2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Saturday, July 1, 2017: Black Lunch Table: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985 @ Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- Sunday, August 20, 2017: Black Lunch Table Hypes Hip Hop, Brooklyn, NY
- Monday, September 11, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ Mt Mary University, Milwaukee, WI
- Thursday, September 21, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ John Michael Kohler Arts Center with Peck School of Arts, Sheboygan, WI
–Sunday, September 24, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI– Cancelled
–Tuesday, September 26, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ John Michael Kohler Art Center, during "The Road Less Traveled" conference, Sheboygan WI– Cancelled - Saturday, December 9, 2017: Black Lunch Table @ The 8th Floor, New York, NY
2016 events[edit]
- Thursday, February 4, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center, Charlotte #1, Charlotte, NC
- Thursday, February 11, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center, Charlotte #2, Charlotte, NC
- Thursday, February 18, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center, Charlotte #3, Charlotte, NC
- Thursday, February 25, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ McColl Center, Charlotte #4, Charlotte, NC
- Monday, March 14, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ Project Row Houses, #1, Houston, TX
- Wednesday, March 16, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ Project Row Houses, #2, Houston, TX
- Wednesday, April 6, 2016: Black Lunch Table Xavier University @ New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
- Monday, April 11, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ CPCC, Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
- Monday, May 16, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta CANADA
- Monday, September 12, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ EIU Booth Library hosted by Tarble Art Center #1, Charleston, IL
- Monday, September 13, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ EIU Booth Library hosted by Tarble Art Center #2, Charleston, IL
- Wednesday, November 16, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ Weeksville Heritage Center Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
- Saturday, December 10, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ BRIC House Stoop, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
- Saturday, December 17, 2016: Black Lunch Table @ Forward Union Fair, New York, NY
- Friday, December 23, 2016: Black Lunch Table 2016 Living Room Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2015 events[edit]
- Sunday, May 17, 2015: Black Lunch Table @ Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY – first BLT editathon
- Monday, July 13, 2015: Black Lunch Table @ MoMA, New York, NY – with AfroCROWD
- Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Black Lunch Table Basquiat Still Fly @ 55 @ MoMA, New York, NY – with AfroCROWD
- Tuesday, November 17, 2015: Black Lunch Table @ Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2014 events[edit]
- Fri-Sat August 22-23, 2014: Black Artists Retreat, Chicago, IL.
Outcomes[edit]
Metrics and outcome details can be found by year on Outreach Dashboard.
Metrics and outcomes before 2018 can be found HERE.
Archived announcements[edit]
- Regional Proxy filled 1/2019
- Project Manager filled 1/2019
External links[edit]
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