Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Alice Yard 2

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Black Lunch Table
in Port of Spain
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
When and Where
Date:Saturday, March 16, 2019
Time:2-6PM
Address:80 Roberts Street
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon in Trinidad & Tobago focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Saturday, March 16, 2019 2-6pm at Alice Yard (80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain). A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

Photographer, Kearra Amaya Gopee, will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia in our Black Lunch Table photo booth!

Please bring your laptop so you can join the editing and bring a friend! If you have a hotspot to share, bring that too! The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of artists from the African Diaspora from Trinidad & Tobago. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

History of The Black Lunch Table

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 13 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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About Alice Yard

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Alice Yard is the backyard space of the house at 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

This was once the house of Sean Leonard’s great-grandmother. Four generations of children played and imagined in this yard, and now we continue this tradition. Alice Yard is a space for creative experiment, collaboration, and improvisation.

Alice Yard is administered and curated by architect Sean Leonard, artist Christopher Cozier, and writer and editor Nicholas Laughlin, with the help of a growing network of creative collaborators. Read more about us here. Alice Yard is a non-profit organisation incorporated under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago.

Since 2008, Alice Yard has run a residency programme hosting artists, curators, and other creative practitioners

More here.

Event details

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  • Date: Saturday, March 16, 2019
  • Time: 2-6pm
  • Location: Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street
    Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
    • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
    • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
  • What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
  • Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #AliceYard
  • Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
  • Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

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  • Presentation / overview
  • Editing time
  • Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
  • For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

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Possible articles to edit

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Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important Jamaican visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

  • Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
  •   denotes Infobox is needed

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

  • suggest names here



Trinidad & Tobago-affiliated artists

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These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article Gender Occupation Place of birth Residence
Adele Todd female visual artist
graphic designer
university teacher
Allana Clarke female visual artist Brooklyn
Brianna McCarthy female visual artist
multimedia artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Denyse Thomasos female painter Port of Spain
Geoffrey Holder male actor
stage actor
television actor
writer
costume designer
choreographer
theatre director
film actor
Port of Spain
Jasmine Thomas Girvan female jeweller
visual artist
sculptor
Saint Andrew Trinidad and Tobago
Karyn Olivier female visual artist
Kearra Amaya Gopee female visual artist
photographer
Trinidad and Tobago
Kriston Banfield male artist
painter
visual artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Kynaston McShine male art curator Port of Spain
Trinidad
New York City
LeRoy Clarke male artist
writer
Belmont Trinidad and Tobago
New York City
Marlon Darbeau male designer
artist
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Marlon James male photographer Kingston Trinidad and Tobago
Maro Morrison female visual artist Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Marsha Pearce female theorist
researcher
visual artist
Trinidad and Tobago
Melinda Mollineaux female photographer London Trinidad
Lethbridge
Ottawa
Michael Fernandes male experimental artist Trinidad Trinidad
Michèle Pearson Clarke female writer
filmmaker
Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto
Natalie Wood female multimedia artist
curator
Trinidad Trinidad
Toronto
Nicole Awai female visual artist
media artist
Port of Spain Austin
Brooklyn
Rodell Warner male visual artist
graphic designer
photographer
Trinidad and Tobago
Roger McTair male writer
filmmaker
university teacher
poet
film director
Trinidad and Tobago Toronto
Sandra Brewster female visual artist
art education
community organizer
multimedia artist
Toronto Pickering
Port of Spain
St. Norbert, Winnipeg
Cape Town
Wendell McShine male painter
sculptor
animator
installation
Trinidad
End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

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Where to start...
 
  1. Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!
  2. Follow instructions to upload your images here...
  • Create or update Wikidata!
Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
  1. Go to Wikidata
  2. Read Wikidata's Introduction!
  3. Search for the person or subject
  4. If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
  5. Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
  6. To add a field, click 'Add Statement'
Wikidata + AuthorityControl
  • Create or update Authority Control!
Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)
  1. Go to VIAF.org
  2. Search for person (last name, first name)
  3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
  4. Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
  5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
  6. Refresh Wikipedia page
  • Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

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Extended content
Alphabetical by first letter

denotes Infobox added 

Pages improved


Pages created
Sandbox articles started
Wikidata items improved


Wikidata items created
Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics

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Extended content
Outreach Dashboard
  • Articles Created:
  • Articles Edited:
  • Total Edits:
  • Editors:
  • Words Added:
  • Article Views:
  • Commons Uploads:

References

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Attendees

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