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Time Travel Convention | Pt. 1 – Preparation

Yell Gallery 2111 East Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

The Time Travel Convention is an exhibition that explores time travel as a practical activity – something that does not necessarily require a machine, an advanced degree, or any other privileges. Using afrofuturism and the speculative as lenses, the exhibition will feature time travel devices and objects from creators who use tools such as memory, dreams, imagination, manipulation of language and perception, light, and music to craft their temporal devices.

Donation

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Time Travel Convention | Pt. 2 – Activation * Recurrence Plot Book Release

Yell Gallery 2111 East Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Time Travel Convention | Pt. 2 - Activation is an opening reception for the exhibition and book release for AfroFuturist Affair Creator Rasheedah Phillips' experimental fiction novel, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales).

Free

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The AfroFuturist Affair Presents: |BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY| 4th Annual Charity & Costume Ball WEEKEND

Impact Hub 1227 N 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA

This year, The AfroFuturist Affair Annual Charity & Costume Ball has expanded space-time from one evening to a month-long celebration of Afrofuturism. In addition to the 4th Annual Costume Ball on Saturday, November 8 2014, we will have events throughout November, including workshops, dance party, readings, book club, film screenings, art exhibit, and more, all exploring the theme of Black Holographic Memory.

$3 – $10

CANARIES group show at Cleopatra’s w/Maggie Eighteen

Cleopatra's 110 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Catch a reading performance by Maggie Eighteen, Monday, December 8th, as part of the Canaries group show at Cleopatra's in Brooklyn.

Canaries is a support group of women artists in New York City living and working with autoimmune conditions. Together they navigate the misconceptions around autoimmunity and the rising autoimmune epidemic. Through their conversations and work, the Canaries confront the epistemological shortcomings of a culture that insists on the duality of mind and body. Moving between the realm of the healthy and the realm of the sick, they seek to carve out a new site from which to understand identity formation in today’s world.
Cleopatra’s is pleased to present Canaries, a multimedia group exhibition that investigates healing, survival and the scarcity of language around these issues.

CHROME CITY 2: No, New York

Vox Populi 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA

a prep and a primer, re: CHROME CITY. From the Files of Lexcorp.. CC'd Weyland-Yutani, Cyberdyne Systems, Ltd., Tyrell Corporation, LLC.

Chrome City in general is an attempt to create new forms of art from the ethereal husks, the ozone laced residue of the retro-future, and to stitch new works, new possibilities from the light lines streaking off time warping deloreans. It's not just a "retro party"; the intention is to create something new while acknowledging everything that made us who we are.
Chrome City 2: No, New York, is both a conscious effort to vibrate away from the stagnancy of relying on Big Brother to validate us (in more ways than one, this time specifically New York City and it's relationship to Philly, as well as in an Orwellian sense--see what i did there?) So, we're saying "NO" to New York, but we're also bigging up; we can't front: the pre-Guiliani graffiti scrawl of a gang ridden late '70s and '80s NYC is ultimately enticing. Besides, "No New York" is the name of a seminal no wave compilation that informs much of the underground today. But aside from a raw play on words, we're looking to bridge the ever widening gap of the forward movements that took place downtown from 1977 to 1984-- go-go boys, voguers, bboys, art fags, drag queens all clash with the mandroids, bio-morphs, replikants and blade runners alike-- to the post internet everything world of today. Is it possible to simultaneously dis something and pay homage to it? Pour in those 1.21 gigawatts of ill base, no wave noise, and insurrectionist afterfuture cyber speak, then hop in the delorean and find out.

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

Dahlak Paradise 4708 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T

A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
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◉ 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

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

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T
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A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
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▲ ▼ ◼︎ ▼◀︎

◉ 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

"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

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!

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

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

MIGHTY PARADOCS (return of faye)
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EX BY V
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INTERMINABLE
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SPECIAL GUEST TBA
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HOSTED BY ST. SKRIBBLY LACROIX
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DJ/SOUNDS BY MOOR MOTHER + ESTIA

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