• A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.2 BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM RELEASE PARTY

    Dahlak Paradise 4708 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T

    A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
    №.2

    ▲ ▼ ◼︎ ▼◀︎

    ◉ BLACK FUTURISM ✪ AFRIKAN RIDDEMS ▲

    ◎ SPACE BASS ◼︎ ANCESTRAL NOISE ►

    ◆ QUANTUM DYSTOPIA ◀︎ SOULDROMEDA ●

    ● ZULU NATION HEARTBEATS ◎ DARK MAGI BLUES ▼

    ◉ FREE JAZZ HOLOGRAMS ⌾ BLACK MASS POETRY

    s o u n d s / w a v e s / w o r d m a g i c
    black quantum theory and practice vol. 1 book release

  • Wildseeds Black Futures Fest

    Ibis Conservation Room 1401 Leonidas St, New Orleans, LA, United States

    FESTIVAL WEBSITE: www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com
    VOLUNTEERS: Email NOLAWildseeds@gmail.com if interested in being a volunteer :)

    Save the date for the Wildseeds #BlackFuturesFest going on in New Orleans from May 28th-31st!

    The 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.

    Open 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.

    CHECK THIS PAGE REGULARLY FOR EVENT UPDATES OR VISIT www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com!

     

  • A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.3

    The Art Church of West Philadelphia 5219 Webster St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T
    < ♏︎E T A ⌔ T ◎ N E >
    A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
    №.3

    ▲ ▼ ◼︎ ▼◀︎

    ◉ BLACK FUTURISM ✪ AFRIKAN RIDDEMS ▲

    ◎ SPACE BASS ◼︎ ANCESTRAL NOISE ►

    ◆ QUANTUM DYSTOPIA ◀︎ SOULDROMEDA ●

    ● ZULU NATION HEARTBEATS ◎ DARK MAGI BLUES ▼

    ◉ FREE JAZZ HOLOGRAMS ⌾

    sound//waves

    H P R I Z M
    https://hprizm.bandcamp.com/

    L I L D A V E
    https://soundcloud.com/lildave

    E X A KT L Y (DC)
    https://soundcloud.com/cmpvtr-clvb

    MOM² (DC)
    MIND OVER MATTER MUSIC OVER MIND
    https://soundcloud.com/bushmeat

    ORGANIX TRIO (DC)

    M M G Z
    moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com

    ANLI MARS

    Special guests tba
    Projections by Black Quantum Futurism

    +++PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS GO TO HELP SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE

    $7 – $10
  • RITUAL CAUSALITY 001

    AUX Performance Space 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    "Ritual...is a complex of words and actions...it is not the case that words are one thing and the rite another. The uttering of the words itself is a ritual." - Leach

    Black Quantum Futurism presents its first 2-hour gallery performance RITUAL CAUSALITY 001 featuring ancient anthropological finds, African/Black Diasporic time and memory rituals, and live sound experiments. Experience BQF theorists discovering the first computer in 100bc, lecturing on Sun Ra synchronicities, and Quantum Mapping our collective futures. RITUAL CAUSALITY 001 is a retrocausal retrospective starting with the latest BQF work, ANTI-KY-THE/RA, then spiraling backwards to the beginning with the NonLocality series. BQF's first exhibition of works will be a multimedia experience that will include dance, sound, projections and speculative literary performances.

    $7 – $10
  • Community Futures Lab Opening Reception

    Community Futures Lab 2204 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Black Quantum Futurism/ The AfroFuturist Affair celebrate the opening of our new space COMMUNITY FUTURES LAB!

    Over the next year, Black Quantum Futurism will be building and enacting a quantum time capsule, exploring oral histories/futures, preservation, displacement, and alternative temporalities within the North Philadelphia community known as Sharswood/Blumberg. “Community Futurisms” will document the redevelopment of Sharswood/Blumberg, through a multidisciplinary community art project that explores the intersections of futurism, literature, visual remixing, sound, and activism as art.

    Join us on June 18, 2016 as we open the COMMUNITY FUTURES LAB, which will function as a resource library, community studio and gallery, workshop space, story recording booth, thinktank, experimental space and more.

    ALL AGES
    Light refreshments
    Soundscapes + Projections by BQF
    konja sound by Sirius JuJu
    reading by Moor Mother
    fly life sounds by Alexoteric

    FREE
  • ROCKERS!

    TBA

    + IT ALL STARTED JUST LIKE THIS
    AT SQUARE ONE + BECAUSE YOU HAD TO

    ++++++ ROCKERS / + JUNE 26 / + SUNDAY

    MIGHTY PARADOCS (return of faye)
    +

    EX BY V
    +

    INTERMINABLE
    +

    SPECIAL GUEST TBA
    +

    HOSTED BY ST. SKRIBBLY LACROIX
    +

    DJ/SOUNDS BY MOOR MOTHER + ESTIA

    MORE INFO TBA
    @ROCKERS ON FB FOR QUESTIONS

  • Kimya Dawson // Moor Mother // METROPOLARITY // Daphne

    319 Performance Space 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Fl, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Door at 7:30 // Performances at 8, $15 cover
    ALL AGES
    21+ beer for donations

    319 Performance Space (aka AUX @Vox Populi)
    319 N. 11th St. 3rd floor
    Philadelphia PA
    **accessible by 3 steps to elevator-help will be provided for those who need it!**
    **AIR CONDITIONED**

    $15
  • Apiary x METROPOLARITY Soft Targets Launch Party

    Painted Bride ArtsCenter 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    all danger all softness no geolocation
    1 nite revelry spells and sanctuary
    texts songs dances
    against the gathering data storm

    this portal exists when we begin
    this portal ends at midnight

    APIARY MAGAZINE x METROPOLARITY
    :
    SOFT TARGETS
    issue 8 of APIARY in collabo with sci-fi collective METROPOLARITY.
    read philadelphia's visions of vulnerability, violence and ecstasy;
    survival strategies in our contested city;
    the monstrous and tender contending inside us

    7 PM: PARTING OF TIME AND SPACE // AIRPLANE MODE
    enter.
    drinks (government ID checked at door)
    new names (memorywipe your government ID)
    anti-surveillance face & body art

    8-10 PM INCANTATIONS FOR INVISIBILITY
    readings by 25+ storyspinners and poets
    frequency lifting by the URBAN SHAMANS word/sounds/power:afrobeat funk jazz

    10-MIDNIGHT DANCE PARTY
    ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ FEATURING ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
    ⚡ Anti-facial recognition face painting and body art by Kitakiya Davis
    ♪ Live musical performance by Philly's URBAN SHAMANS: afrobeat funk jazz grooves, WORDS, SOUNDS, and POWER!
    ♪ DJ wizardry by Alex Smith (of METROPOLARITY)

    MIDNIGHT-??? AFTERPARTY @ SILK CITY
    may the ephemeral gather strength and carry us through the night

    PAY WHAT YOU CAN: $7-10 SUGGESTED DONATION

    $7 – $10
  • ⊙ Casita De Las Olas ⊙

    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    A VERY FINE EVENT FROM OUR NEIGHBOR, GENESIS MARTINEZ-CRESPO Y MARCELLINE MANDEG

    IN WHAT WAYS HAS NOSTALGIA HINDERED OUR PERSONAL GROWTH? HOW DOES ONE BUILD A HOME OUT OF CONSTANT THEMES OF WHO THEY USED TO BE? WHAT IF THERE ISN'T MUCH TO BE NOSTALGIC ABOUT? BECAUSE AT NO TIME IN THE RECENT PAST YOU, YOUR PARENTS OR YOUR PARENT'S PARENTS WEREN'T IN A STATE OF DISPLACEMENT. IF YOU COULD ONLY PIN-POINT WHEN AND WHERE ITS EVEN POSSIBLE TO BREAK THE CYCLE.

    FREE BUT BRING $$$
  • ROCKERS BBQ WEEKEND #6

    Community Futures Lab 2204 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ROCKERS BBQ WEEKEND WILL TAKE PLACE AUG 27TH & 28TH 2016 WE CELEBRATE OUR 6TH YEAR DOING THE FESTIVAL!! I CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR SUPPORTING ROCKERS OVER THE YEARS IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO PROVIDE SO MANY WITH A PLATFORM TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.ROCKERS MONTHLY SHOWS MAY BE OVER BUT WE WILL CONTINUE […]

    BRING CASH
  • TOMORROW NEVER HAPPENS

    Samek Gallery 3rd Floor, Elaine Langone Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States

    FIND METROPOLARITY PRINT ARTIFACTS AMONG THIS STACKED EXHIBIT AT BUCKNELL U'S SAMEK ART MUSEUM:::::::
    >>>>> This exhibition explores queer futurity and the aesthetics of utopia by asking: How are queer communities imagining and working toward a better world? And how do queer theories, artistic practices, and lived experiences influence broader cultural thinking about the future? <<<<<

    FREE
  • ICA Philly Free For All w/ Black Quantum Futurism

    Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    RUMOR HAS IT METROPOLARITY WILL BE IN THE BUILDING WITH BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM AS PART OF THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART'S FREE FOR ALL PROGRAM SERIES CONFIRMED DETAILS FORTHCOMING  

    FREE