ICON 2021 by SAME SAME BUT BLACK

 

A Celebration of Black History Month and the Auckland Pride Festival February 2021

ICON 2021 is an exhibition celebrating the black pioneers of the rainbow community.

 

Dates: 1 February 2021 – 28 February 2021

Part exhibition, part education, part conversation, part celebration, part agitation; ICON 2021 is an online photography exhibition, podcast series, social media outreach and live stream pop up Event.

 

For each day of February, a different ICON will be celebrated and showcased in an online exhibition of portraits and stories on www.samesamebutblack.co.nz

 

On Friday 19th of February Same Same but Black will host a panel discussion (via facebook live) exploring the images and stories curated for this exhibition. The digital exhibition will also feature interviews with photographers Lola Flash and Robert Taylor, who will discuss their careers and the people they photographed over the past fifty years.

 

Supported by Ethnic Communities Fun, Creative Henderson Massey, Where it Matters, Pride and Spark Empowerment Initiative.

Same Same But Black is a collective working for black, Indigenous and people of colour within the LGBTTQIA+ community in Aotearoa.