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 Join us Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:00 noon - 8:00 PM at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival Dallas with books and merch, art, workshops, storytelling, live music performance, and more in celebration of American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker, Zora Neale Hurston, born on January 7, 1981.
Exhibition of selected works from Bitter Waters Sweet by Letitia Huckaby is on view and up through February 8, 2025.
12 PM - Donya Craddock of the Dock Book Shop and Trelani Michelle of Krak Teet in conversation via Oak Cliff Cultural Center Instagram Live (virtual) @oakcliffculturalcenter
12:30 PM - Akwete Tyehimba, Pan-African Connection ZNH presentation (in-person). Seating first come, first served for the presentation.
2 PM - Adinkra Printmaking Workshop with Ashley Jordan (in-person)
Registration required. ZNH-DALLAS
5 PM - Host B. Randall and Friends: Lyrique Jaye, Mz Jolie, Brenden Lewis, and Mz Viki Poetry Event (in-person) Seating first come, first served for the performance.
7 PM - Kamica King Live (in-person) Seating first come, first served for the performance.
Refreshments will be served.
 The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is pleased to present ORACLE, a solo exhibition featuring the artwork of Danielle Ellis. An opening reception will be held from 6 – 8 pm on Saturday, January 18 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center with an artist talk at 6:30 pm. An Oak Cliff native, Ellis’ work connects African Traditional Religion and history to the African diaspora through her work in digital collage, photography, and spiritual practices.
ORACLE encapsulates Ellis’ Brassfly Oracle Deck, a body of work she began developing in 2020. Presented as a suite of digital collage prints, the oracle deck is a celebration and commentary on African diasporic history and spirituality. Exploring connections to the African diaspora, Ellis pairs historical images reflecting African traditions with those of lived experiences of African Americans. Her digitally sourced imagery of objects, symbols, and photographs, while rooted in African cultural experience and religion, reflect the continuation and preservation of African cosmology throughout the African diaspora. As a body of work, ORACLE represents a convergence of experience and traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation and evolved under oppression and suppression. Deriving from African Traditional Religion and her spiritual practices, Ellis’ ORACLE includes a secluded altar in the center of the gallery, honoring the experiences and legacy of the African diaspora.
Danielle Ellis is an Oak Cliff native always ready to share her love of the arts with everyone at a moment’s notice be it painting live or holding workshops through her creative incubator Brassfly Studio. Her art education came from her parents, summer workshops at the South Dallas Cultural Center, attending Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts and later The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She’s a member/producer of ArtLoveMagic, a member of We Here Collective and the Radical Love Collective. She is the creator of Mermaids Bring Water, a mutual aid initiative that provides clean water to communities in need with its focus on one of the last remaining Black Townships- Sandbranch, Texas and provided emergency bottled water to households across the metroplex during the Texan Winter Storm of 2020. Her work has been seen in multiple venues and events including the Dallas Museum of Art, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Latino Cultural Center, and the State Fair of Texas. She is a recipient of the 2023 Juanita J. Craft Artist Residency at the South Dallas Cultural Center.
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 Artist Colette Copeland is working on an experimental sound project focusing on amplifying voices that have historically been silenced--specifically female and/or queer voices
The project will be exhibited at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center April/May 2025 and we want your voice to be included!
Each participant will be asked to choose a phrase or series of phrases that speak about something they would like to send out into the universe. It can be anything that is meaningful for you. Some of the participants chose to talk back to the oppressors. Some put out positive affirmation. The diversity of tone and text makes the project rich.
The symbolic gesture is that through repetition, the phrases become a chant, symbolizing reclamation of power. Also the voice as a tool for healing and catharsis, not only for the individual who is sounding, but for those who are receiving the sounds. For multi-lingual participants, I am recording in their first language and also English.
More information can be found at Soundings: Texas
Those interested in participating or that have questions can contact Colette Copeland through her website About the Artist – Colette Copeland
 SWAN STRINGS AT OC3
TUESDAYS AT 6:45 PM & SATURDAYS AT 11:00 AM
Swan Strings Music Program is a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to provide free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services to North Texan individuals without access.
Questions? Contact Swan Strings at programs@swanstrings.com
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center (OC3) presents discussions with local creatives, cultural conversations, interviews and much more. Check it out on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or via our webpage
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
223 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Phone: 214-670-3777
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