Event
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Screening & Audience Discussion)
Please join us for a special screening on Friday, January 2nd, at 7 pm, and stay for an audience activation and discussion facilitated by Rodneyna Hart, Deputy Director of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture.
For advance tickets, please click here.
If you’ve watched the film, you’re welcome to join the audience discussion post-screening (without a ticket). We’ll host the discussion in our Real Room gallery starting at 9pm. All are welcome.
Rodneyna M. O. Hart is a community-centered cultural leader with nearly 20 years of experience advancing museums and arts organizations as platforms for education, equity, and public engagement. As Deputy Director of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture in Hartford, Connecticut, she plays a central role in developing mission-driven programs, exhibitions, and partnerships that expand access to Black art, history, and cultural expression for diverse and intergenerational audiences.
Hart works closely with artists, educators, civic leaders, and community organizations to create programming rooted in collaboration, cultural accountability, and shared stewardship. Her leadership focuses on strengthening institutional sustainability while ensuring museums remain responsive, welcoming, and relevant to the communities they serve.
Previously, Hart served as Museum Division Director for the Louisiana State Museum system, overseeing four museums statewide. In that role, she expanded public programming, increased attendance, strengthened earned revenue, and advanced equitable access to cultural resources across urban and rural communities. Across her career, she has consistently centered community relevance, operational excellence, and public trust.
Hart holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MBA from Louisiana State University, bringing a rare blend of creative vision and fiscal acumen to her work. Appointed by the Governor to the Louisiana State Arts Council and Folklife Commission, she has helped shape cultural policy while advocating for artists, cultural workers, and community-based institutions.
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“Khalil Joseph radically reimagines the world through a Black lens, while self-reflexively observing the difficulties of doing so. The film is a pulsing, essayistic docu-fiction piece that defies categorization.” – Variety
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
