Two Upcoming Black Doll Shows in November 2023

Save the Dates, Saturday, November 4, 2023; and Saturday, November 18, 2023.

2023 Festival of Black Dolls Show and Sale

Saturday, November 4, 2023

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. PST

African American Museum and Library of Oakland

659 14th Street

Oakland, CA 

$5 donation at the door; free for children 12 and under

This is an annual show hosted by American Black Beauty Doll Artists whose goal is "to create black dolls in a positive image for children of color." Visit their Facebook page or Instagram for updates and additional information. 

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2023 Detroit Doll Show
Black Doll Show, Book Festival & Art Exhibit
Saturday, November 18, 2023
11 a.m. - 6 p.m. EST
Marygrove Conservancy
8425 W. McNichols Rd
Detroit, MI 48221

General admission is $5.

For tickets, click here.

For swag bags, group tickets, sponsorship, and vendor registration visit here. 

Hosted by Sandra Epps of Sandy's Land Entertainment, LLC., the Detroit Doll Show celebrates history, culture & self-love with the promotion of black dolls. Visit the Detroit Doll Show on Facebook and/or Instagram for updates.

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Virtual Black Doll Show Nov. 7, 2020

Copied from @blackdollartists on Instagram:

"Join us throughout the day, Saturday, NOV 7th for all of our Festival of Black Dolls Events streaming on Facebook:

"10:00 AM PST - Throughout the day

There will be black doll vendors from across the country, plus a spoon doll workshop and more! 

 

"Guest Speaker Bukola Somide, Author "Somi the Computer Scientist: Princess can Code" and the Somi Interactive Doll.

1:00 PM PST Live via Instagram

2:00 PM PST Live via Facebook

 

"3:30 PM - 4:15 PM PST

Our porcelain rendition of Harriett Tubman will be raffled off Live on Facebook, directly from the African American Museum Library at Oakland. 

"You can get your raffle tickets from our website."

Register here. 

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Festival of Black Dolls Show and Sale

Little Ruby is a 12-inch porcelain doll-tribute to Ruby Bridges. The text in the above image reads:

But there was a school

for white children

even closer to my house

than the school

for black children.

It was the William Frantz

Elementary School.

The governor said:

“Ruby Bridges should be allowed to

go to the William Frantz school.”

"Little Ruby" was made by the ladies of American Black Beauty Doll Artists Club of Oakland, California.  The doll is a tribute to Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to integrate an elementary school in the American South (William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960).

American Black Beauty Doll Artists Club is holding their annual Festival of Black Dolls Show and Sale on November 4, 2017.  Attendees will have an opportunity to win "Little Ruby" in a raffle during the show.  Raffle tickets at $5 each will be sold at show.

Learn more about the show on the Events page here and on Facebook here.
Learn more about Ruby Bridges here and here.

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