{"id":400223,"date":"2026-09-15T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400223\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:00:18","slug":"september-book-club-reflection-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400223\/","title":{"rendered":"September Book Club Reflection + Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mfastpete.org\/exhibition\/new-african-masquerades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations<\/a>, the MFA is proud to introduce\u00a0Book + Belonging, a four-part book club that encourages participants to ponder the widely held ideas of the \u201canonymous African artist\u201d and assumptions that masquerade is an unchanging, static art form solely rooted in the distant past.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s book club pick,\u00a0Silver Sparrow\u00a0by Tayari Jones,\u00a0revolves around James Witherspoon\u2019s two families\u2014the public one and the secret one.\u00a0When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Each session will feature a specially paired wine, unlimited popcorn, a carefully facilitated book club discussion, and a gallery talk to bridge the artworks in the exhibition to the relevant and resonant conversations shaping our society today.<\/p>\n<p>Held in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookandbottlestpete.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Book + Bottle<\/a>. Books can be purchased at the MFA Shop and Book + Bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In conjunction with\u00a0New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, the MFA is proud to introduce\u00a0Book + Belonging, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-400223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}