Headlands Center for the Arts

Join us on October 6th for a conversation between Simone Bailey and artist Leila Weefur. The two will discuss Bailey’s current solo exhibition at Headlands, The Lure of the Future, including the role of music in black life and contemporary art.

Following the conversation, join us for a public dinner prepared in collaboration between Bailey and Chef Damon Little.

We welcome you to view the exhibition in our Project Space East before the conversation starts at 5:00PM. Free and open to the public.

Seating for the talk will start promptly at 4:30PM.

Seating for the ticketed dinner will begin at  6:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased here.

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Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through film and architecture, they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging, present in Black, queer, gender-variant embodiment. Their research, across disciplines, explores Black colloquial language, Religion, Transnational Blackness, and practices of collectivity. They received an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College and hold degrees in Film and Media Studies from California State University, Los Angeles, and Communication Studies from Howard University. Weefur’s writing has been published in SEEN, Sming Sming Books, Baest Journal, and more. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including BlackStar Productions, Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, CCA’s Wattis Institute, McEvoy Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the African Diaspora, and The Kitchen. They are summer 2024 fellow at MacDowell and will complete a residency at Bemis Center this fall. Weefur teaches in the Art & Art History Department at Stanford University and is a member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic.