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SUMMARY:MOOGFEST
DESCRIPTION:May 18—21 Durham\, NC \nCatch our workshops & reading events alongside Black Quantum Futurism collective as part of this year’s ‘Future Thought’ programming at MOOGFEST in Durham. It’s $$$ tho so don’t stress – we do our thing regularly around the city of Philadelphia. \nMoogfest is the synthesis of music\, art and technology. \nSince 2004\, Moogfest has brought together artists\, futurist thinkers\, inventors\, entrepreneurs\, designers\, engineers\, scientists\, and musicians. \nBy day\, Moogfest is a platform for conversation and experimentation. This mind-expanding conference attracts creative and technology enthusiasts for three days of participatory programming in Durham\, North Carolina. By night\, Moogfest presents cutting-edge music in venues throughout the city. Performing artists include early pioneers in electronic music\, alongside pop and avant garde experimentalists of today. \nMoogfest is a tribute to Dr. Robert Moog and the profound influence his inventions have had on how we hear the world. Over the last sixty years\, Bob Moog and Moog Music have pioneered the analog synthesizer and other technology tools for artists. This exchange between engineer and musician is celebrated with a unique festival format where the creative process is understood as a collaboration among many people\, across time and space\, in commerce and culture.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/moogfest/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns,Workshops,Youth Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151014T100000
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SUMMARY:Afrofuturism NOW!
DESCRIPTION:The AfroFuturist Affair/Black Quantum Futurism will be performing\, presenting\, and guest curating at the AFROFUTURISM NOW! Festival \nThe avant-garde is black! Afrofuturism is a cultural movement that has been existing for a couple of decades in America\, Europe and Africa. Some prominent Afrofuturists are Sun Ra\, George Clinton\, Jeff Mills and Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler. Today\, there’s a new wave of Afrofuturist writers\, performers\, visual artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, designers\, bloggers\, activists. Contemporary Afrofuturists – Rasheedah Phillips\, Ytasha Womack\, King Britt and many others – fuse science fiction imagination with avant-garde & DIY culture while reflecting black diaspora. \nFrom 14th to 17th October\, WORM will celebrate contemporary Afrofuturism with the festival “Afrofuturism Now!”. In preparation of this event\, our program will look back at the roots of this super-interesting cultural movement\, with an extensive film program and a lecture in June.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/1845/
LOCATION:WORM\, Boomgaardsstraat 71\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Music Shows,Panels & Expos,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151010T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151010T180000
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SUMMARY:AFROFUTURES_UK Conference & Exhibition Weekend
DESCRIPTION:AfroFutures_UK is a weekend event celebrating the intersection of futurism and the black experience. Featuring artists\, academics\, and activists\, they aim to promote Afrofuturistic endeavours in the arts and technology. Metropolarity’s own Rasheedah Phillips\, founder of the AfroFuturist Affair and Black Quantum Futurism collective\, will be there as one of several excellent guest speakers. \n\nAfroFutures_UK is a new collective made up of artists\, writers\, activists and academics interested in exploring the future black experience through multi-media and disruptive technologies. \nOur seminal event is a Conference//Exhibition where we will be using themes and inspiration from Afrofuturism to probe and dissect our visions of the future\, from the sociological to the scientific. We aim to bring together a range of theoretical discourse that touch on this aspect\, from womanism/black feminism\, queer theory to liberation theology and afrocentric philosophy. \nThere will be a series of talks during the day as well as film screenings\, performances and practical workshops. The current list of confirmed speakers and workshop leaders can be found here. You can follow us on Twitter @AfroFutures_UK
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/afrofutures_uk/
LOCATION:MAD LAB Manchester Digital Laboratory\, 36-40 Edge Street \, Manchester\, M4 1HN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Panels & Expos,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150914T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150914T180000
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SUMMARY:Ferguson is the Future Symposium: Speculative Arts & Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:“Ferguson is the Future”:\nIncubating Alternative Worlds Through Arts\, Activism\, and Scholarship \nWhat stories about power\, difference\, and belonging fuel the social crises we face today? How does visionary fiction offer us models for creating new possible worlds? Can the combined insights and interventions of artists\, activists\, and scholars plot a different course forward? “Ferguson is the Future” is part of an ongoing collaboration to imagine and create alternative worlds that are more just and representative of humanity. \nThis symposium brings together a multigenerational panel of speculative fiction writers\, activists\, filmmakers\, academics\, and artists to discuss the historical\, present-and-future manifestations of a social reality we wish to create and thrive in. As we work to shape change\, we will use this space as an incubator and laboratory to grow new visions of the worlds we want to exist. Please join us for a day-long celebration and investigation to explore these timely issues. \nMajor support for the symposium was provided by a grant of the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Council of the Humanities and a grant of the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nAdditional Sponsors:\nOctavia E. Butler Legacy Network\, Princeton Public Library\, Princeton Department of English\, Princeton Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and Princeton Department of African American Studies. \nA LIVESTREAM FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE WATCHED HERE \n\nCO-ORGANIZERS\nMOYA BAILEY\nRUHA BENJAMIN\nAYANA A. H. JAMIESON\, Ph.D. \nGUEST SPEAKERS\nREYNALDO ANDERSON\nSTEVEN BARNES\nLISA BOLEKAJA\nADRIENNE MAREE BROWN\nERIN CHRISTOVALE\nDJ LYNNÉE DENISE\nM. ASLI DUKAN\nTANANARIVE DUE\nJOHNETTA ELZIE\nNETTRICE GASKINS\nAMIR GEORGE\nANDREA HAIRSTON\nNALO HOPKINSON\nWALIDAH IMARISHA\nJOHN JENNINGS\nDENNIS LEROY KANGALEE\nCOLORED GIRLS HUSTLE\nSORAYA JEAN-LOUS McELROY\nDERAY_MCKESSON\nALONDRA NELSON\nNNEDI OKORAFOR\nDANIEL JOSÉ OLDER\nBRITTANY N. PACKNETT\nNUMA PERRIER\nOUR OWN RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS\nSOFIA SAMATAR\nDOROTHY ROBERTS\nNISI SHAWL\nBE STEADWELL
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/ferguson-is-the-future-symposium-speculative-arts-social-justice/
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences
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SUMMARY:Wildseeds Black Futures Fest
DESCRIPTION:FESTIVAL WEBSITE: www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com\nVOLUNTEERS: Email NOLAWildseeds@gmail.com if interested in being a volunteer 🙂 \nSave the date for the Wildseeds #BlackFuturesFest going on in New Orleans from May 28th-31st! \nThe Black Futures Fest is a celebration of the Black fantastic and will showcase the creative praxis of artists\, writers\, and cultural workers of color in New Orleans whose work engages around issues of Afrofuturism\, Black science fiction\, and the Black radical and speculative imagination—work exploring race\, gender\, class\, social change\, and the future of Black and Brown bodies and communities. \nOpen to the public\, the weekend of festivities will feature film screenings\, workshops\, panel discussions\, literary readings\, and art and music by local artists and musicians. More than anything\, the festival will provide a space to celebrate Black and Brown artists\, writers\, teachers\, librarians\, readers\, and publishers engaged in shaping the future of Black people at the intersections of futurism\, arts\, and social change. \nCHECK THIS PAGE REGULARLY FOR EVENT UPDATES OR VISIT www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com! \n 
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/wildseeds-black-futures-fest/
LOCATION:Ibis Conservation Room\, 1401 Leonidas St\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Film Screenings,Live Art & Exhibitions,Music Shows,Panels & Expos,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns,Workshops,Zine & Book Events
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SUMMARY:2014 Allied Media Conference in Detroit
DESCRIPTION:Join Metropolarity & network at this year’s The Allied Media Conference\, a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world\, held every Summer in Detroit! \nDID U KNOW? METROPOLARITY PRESENTS A SCI-FI FOCUSED PROGRAMMING TRACK THIS YEAR! \nLiberation Technologies: Sci-Fi for World Building & Survival\nThe post-apocalypse is here and real\, where ancient and varied modes of survival and technology have been erased in the name of Empire and Progress. What do we do when access to memory/the past is standardized? This track explores how people at the margins can remix\, rewire\, and revive emancipatory technologies such as storytelling\, world-building\, magic\, sci-fi and speculation to envision and conjure narratives of power and joy. Through engagement with tools like portals and time-travel\, we will develop strategies to manifest new/ancient narratives into reality. We will envision a world that has happened\, is happening\, and will happen. We hope that travelers will walk away with the courage to embody the power of fiction and visioning in healing personal and historical trauma and disenfranchisement. We want to create and share multifaceted inclusive networks that emerge our bodies from isolation and oppressive paradigms to keep our souls alive. \n==================================== \nABOUT THE AMC\nCREATE\nAt the AMC\, we understand media as any way in which we communicate with the world\, from zines to breakdancing\, to designing neighborhood-based communications infrastructure. We share and create media that exposes\, investigates\, heals\, builds confidence and radical hope\, incites dialogue and debate. We demystify technology\, not only learning how to use it\, but how to design and build our own.  In doing so\, we redefine technology’s role and impact in our lives. The AMC creates learning environments for all ages and skill levels\, including hands-on workshops\, strategy sessions\, presentations and performances. \nCONNECT\n The AMC is a network of networks – social justice organizers\, community technologists\, transformative artists\, educators\, entrepreneurs\, and many others — all using media in innovative ways. Some of these networks sprout from the conference\, grow over the course of the year then reconvene in Detroit larger and healthier. Others use the AMC as an annual point of convergence and a space to forge new relationships. Through cycles of participatory investigation and experimentation\, our networks continue to grow\, generating new theories and practices of media-based organizing. \nTRANSFORM\nAs our networks grow\, so does our capacity to take collective actions to transform our world. At the AMC\, we develop new leaders and new forms of leadership\, design new methods of problem-solving\, cultivate the visions of our communities and build our power to make those visions real.  \n==================================== \nBrowse the 2014 Tracks\, Practice Spaces\, and Network Gatherings that make up the AMC here! \n==================================== \nREGISTER TO ATTEND!  ／／／　FIND HOUSING\, RIDESHARES\, CHILDCARE & ACCESSIBILITY HERE \n==================================== \nAllied Media Projects Network Principles\nWe are making an honest attempt to solve the most significant problems of our day. \nWe are building a network of people and organizations that are developing long-term solutions based on the immediate confrontation of our most pressing problems. \nWherever there is a problem\, there are already people acting on the problem in some fashion. Understanding those actions is the starting point for developing effective strategies to resolve the problem\, so we focus on the solutions\, not the problems. \nWe emphasize our own power and legitimacy. \nWe presume our power\, not our powerlessness. \nWe spend more time building than attacking. \nWe focus on strategies rather than issues. \nThe strongest solutions happen through the process\, not in a moment at the end of the process. \nThe most effective strategies for us are the ones that work in situations of scarce resources and intersecting systems of oppression because those solutions tend to be the most holistic and sustainable. \nPlace is important. For the AMC\, Detroit is important as a source of innovative\, collaborative\, low-resource solutions. Detroit gives the conference a sense of place\, just as each of the conference participants bring their own sense of place with them to the conference. \nWe encourage people to engage with their whole selves\, not just with one part of their identity. \nWe begin by listening.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/2014-allied-media-conference-in-detroit/
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Parties,Readings & Performances,Workshops,Youth Events
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