Inspired by the speakeasy clubs of the Harlem Renaissance, which were welcoming and inclusive places for all, the Museum invites you into a space that welcomes LGBTQIA community, African Americans (and allies) of all gender identities and orientations.  

Don your best disco duds and enjoy--

Cocktails at the Disco

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

70’s inspired Signature Cocktail/Mocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres available until 8:00 pm or until supplies run out. (Non-alcoholic drinks, beer, and wine available throughout the event)

Club NMAAHC

7:30 pm - Museum Welcome

7:40 pm  -Disco Panel Discussion

                Moderator-Rayceen Pendarvis

                Panelists – Loren Kajikawa and DJ Jay Jay-

8:30 pm - Performance – Roz White

9:00 pm - Dance instruction by Rita Jean Kelly Burns + dance party

Celebrate the ancestors and honor your heroes

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Contribute to an installation, inspired by James Baldwin, that celebrates the memory of the ancestors and give your hero their flowers while they are alive.

As James Baldwin wrote in The Fire Next Time – “It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life."