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3400 S Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
Business Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday & Monday | Closed
Closing Announcement:
SDDC will be closed Friday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day
 Home for the Holidays: The Art of Healing Conversations Workshop with Liza Njuguna
Saturday, Nov. 12 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | South Dallas Cultural Center
Strengthen connections and deepen understanding this holiday season, even if a relative wants to try you.
Faith Ringgold is an internationally acclaimed visual and performance artist known for her narrative quilts. In the mid-seventies, Ringgold was working primarily with fabric, but she wanted to get back to painting. She decided to mix the two media by painting on cloth and by framing paintings with cloth. Ringgold’s Dinner Quilt Series tells a story that is universal. In the text, the narrator is a young girl who describes a typical dinner with her extended family.
In modern times, families across the country gather for Family Dinner, especially for holidays. The dinner can begin as a celebratory gathering then quickly turn contentious resulting in hurtful words being exchanged, dismissive attitudes, and beliefs challenged. For the past two years, many have chosen to not attend large family gatherings due to the pandemic. Now that restrictions have been lifted, family gatherings will return. Are you prepared?
The Art of Healing Conversations Potluck Workshop is inspired by Faith Ringgold’s Dinner Quilt Series. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice using elements of effective communication that will empower them to nurture more equitable, cooperative and empathetic ways of being together, beginning with their family. The workshop is designed to equip participants with tangible skills they can use as they prepare to be with family members who have a knack for pushing the most sensitive buttons around the holidays.
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SDCC Music Lounge powered by Sofar Sounds
Thursday, Nov. 10 | Doors open at 6:30 p.m. | South Dallas Cultural Center
The SDCC Music Lounge features local Dallas artists performing music from the African Diasporian culture. This concert series offers musical styles ranging from hip hop to gospel to zydeco. Each event is a small and intimate music session for the Dallas community and is designed to highlight the wide soundscape of black culture.
This month’s music lounge is powered by Sofar Sounds. Participants will see 2 to 3 short sets from incredible performers from all musical genres, and sometimes even spoken word, comedy or dance. Each show’s lineup is curated by their artist booking team to be diverse and varied. Grab your ticket and get ready to discover your new favorite artist!
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Black Legend Heirloom Closing Reception
Thursday, Nov. 10 | 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | South Dallas Cultural Center
As a 2022 component of the Juanita J. Craft Artist Residency, the Black Legend Heirloom project fosters artistic growth for adults by teaching the process of creating through the technical use of acrylic painting, collage, and design on 6-inch paper Mache boxes. The project will focus on South Dallas, Juanita J. Craft, and the history of Dallas as it pertains to themes such as: civil rights, family, social justice, and legacy. These heirlooms will be show-cased at the South Dallas Cultural Center and then donated to contribute to the artistic cannon and legacy of the Black Dallas artist movement.
Come hang with us during the closing reception and meet the artists! Learn more about Camika Spencer by watching her artists on SDCC's YouTube channel.
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Dallas OperaTruck Community and Family Performance
Saturday, November 12 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | South Dallas Cultural Center
Join SDCC and The Dallas Opera for a FREE entertaining and educational “pop-up” performances on the OperaTruck – an 18-wheel flatbed “big rig” with an outdoor mobile stage for family-friendly productions.
Nice Goats Finish First! Three little goats – Lucy, Ernesto, and Dandini – just want to have fun. But mean old billy goat Osmin decides to spoil the festivities and blocks them from going over the bridge on their way home. And not only that! He steals Lucy’s favorite doll! So how do you stop a bully in his tracks? Meet him head-on, of course—and then maybe end up as friends! Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini. Words and Story adaptation by John Davies. OperaTruck is donated by Quincy Roberts and Roberts Trucking and sponsored by Betty and Steve Suellentrop.
This event is free and open to the general public.
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✏️ 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Essay Contest
The City of Dallas is pleased to announce the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest. The contest will award eight scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 (per award) to graduating high school seniors accepted into a college-level educational institution (two-year college, four-year college, or trade school). Learn more
🎉 thehumanization Commemoration Day
The City of Dallas cordially invites the community to the ceremony for the dedication of the Public Art piece thehumanization by Jennifer Monet Cowley on Nov. 19 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Twin Falls Park | 6300 S. Pol Street, Dallas, Texas 75232. Learn more
😋 Sunny South Dallas Food Park
Join Sunny South Dallas Food Park Sunday, Nov. 13 from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. for their next community event. Learn more
✅ City of Dallas Racial Equity Plan
Join the City of Dallas for a community conversation in English and Spanish on the recently adopted City of Dallas Racial Equity Plan (REP). The meeting will be held Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the True Lee Missionary Baptist Church.
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Sacred Seeds: Communicating Through Hair Systems Opening Night
On view through November 26 | South Dallas Cultural Center | Arthello Beck Gallery
Inyang Essien is a Nigerian-American photographer and visual artist from Dallas, TX. Her work is based in photography, cultural textiles, video installations, and generative art to explore identity through culture, sexuality, and personal transformation. In 2021, she was a recipient in the inaugural cohort of the Juanita J. Craft Artist Residency and was a recipient of both the Nasher Artist Grant and Cedars Union Art & Equity Scholarship.
Click the link below to view photos from the exhibitions on our Black Culture Celebrated blog. All photographs were taken by Nitashia Johnson.
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