Interactive Museum

As part of Black History month, BSA took over the ICC for their Interactive Museum, which they do every year. Different groups and people volunteer to prepare rooms with the help of the ICC’s Programming Assistants. Each room gets a theme and people visit the interactive museum to learn about the represented aspects of black history. Alexandria Hicks repeated her room about black face, while other BSA members prepared a room about hair and black people in the media. I decided I wanted to help them out this year by making a room as well. When I took the Music of Latin-America class, I did my final project on the history of Capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art which originated in African and developed in Brazil. I once attended a Capoeira class with Jamie Thalman, so I asked him to help me prepare a room about the history of Capoeira for the interactive museum. Jamie seemed enthusiastic about the idea and so the two of us, with the help of some of Jamie’s Capoeira buddies and the ICC’s Pas, prepared the room. It was a fun, although time-consuming project, but it was nice to help out and see people come around to our room and actually read some of what we had done.