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SPACE_DOME :: A NIGHT OF COSMIC ART

40th Street AIR Space 4007 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

FACEBOOK RSVP HERE ::A NIGHT OF COSMIC ART:: >>Plastic Fantastic invites the beautiful world people, Philadelphia. Geodesic dome houses wonder including artist, creative, inspirational. Projectors Light Music, telling the stories of Life political, emotional, universal. Enjoy your time here and Celebrate!<< >>08.10.2013<< >>08:00PM<< >>40th Street AIRSPACE<< >>FREE<< >>ALL AGES<< Featuring performances by: GhettoSongbird https://www.facebook.com/The.Official.GhettoSongBird Umer […]

Fargo-Moorehead Zine Fest

UU Church 121 9th St S, Fargo, ND

Enjoy zine sales, a zine tutorial, music by Spring Ma and QUESE IMC. QUESE will also speak about Idle No More and solidarity. Ras. Mashramani and Maggie Eighteen of the science fiction collective METROPOLARITY will be speaking and facilitating a workshop. FMZF is honored to present a screening of the movie Rez with a Q […]

Come as Your Madness! A Smut Reading

Little Berlin 2430 Coral Street, Philadelphia, PA

A smut reading catering to your hidden desires and derangement! Performances by authors from Metropolarity, The Apiary Corp., and The Dream Oven Open erotica reading: bring your fantasies & realities Flagrant gender performance greatly encouraged & appreciated. Weird & tantalizing dance party to follow

NORTHERN LIBERTIES // ASTICKANDASTONE // FOREST KINGDOM // LONG VERA // EIGHTEEN // SEAN GLASS // VOYAGER

LAVA zone 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia

--> BANDS: NORTHERN LIBERTIES "Dissonant riff-heavy freakouts...sullen gloom...melodic marches...spacey, psychedelic angular avant-punk...cosmic effects tripouts...bizarre feverdream lyrics...zoned-out vocals." -Crucial Blast A STICK AND A STONE "... a haunting, dark long night...back and forth mixed emotions...powerful sex...pancakes..." -Spice Rack * Night Vision Vinyl Release and Art Show + One year anniversary with drummer Dan + LAST SHOW […]

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100 Days Instead of Prisons Video Premier & Launch Party

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA

THE ART FACTORY & DECARCERATE PA PRESENT: Come one, come all to PhillyCAM and join us for the Premier of our 3 Stop Motion Animation Videos that we collaborated with Decarcerate PA as well as the kick off for the 100 Days Instead of Prisons Launch Party. Our Videos Are: ~EVOLUTION OF PRISON: THE BACKGROUND […]

The Laser Life Queer Sci-Fi Reading Series

A-Space Anarchist Community Center 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA

Triumphant return for fall!! The lifeblood! with the crew Alex Smith Shane Jenkins R. Phillips of the AfroFuturist Affair Ras Mashramani Maggie Eighteen and featured readers Katie Zall + 1 more TBA

SCREAMING QUEENS + EX. BY V. + ALEX SMITH + VOYAGER + HEATHER HOLEPUNCHER

LAVA zone 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia

Screaming Queens (Vancouver) S/T - Psychedelia by Screaming Queens ex. by v. shifted red by EX. By V. Alex Smith Smith is a queer black activist, poet, dj, actor, musician, afro punk/afro-futurist chronicler of the naughty universe. Smith’s work speaks to the edge, to the post-fringe dystopia slowly creeping upon us. Too cantankerous and flamboyant […]

$5

Philly Zine Fest 2013

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

"The Fest showcases local artists and zinesters, as well as zine distros, bringing DIY, radical, whimsical, and artistic small press publications to the public. Ranging from bike repair to poetry to crafts, the Zine Fest is a great place to go to learn new things, connect with local writers, and get involved with creating new […]

Return to Octavia City

GTOWNRADIO 24 Maplewood Mall, Philadelphia, PA

Black Tribbles and The AfroFuturist Affair present OCTAVIA CITY 2 Thursday November 7th 8-11pm LIVE BROADCAST on G-town Radio www.GTOWNRADIO.com Co-hosted by The Black Tribbles and Rasheedah Phillips of The AfroFuturist Affair. Special Guest Host Gabriel Bryant of Stepping Into Tomorrow. Musical soundscape provided by Shawanda Aura Spivey aka the one and only DJ AURA. […]

The AfroFuturist Affair 3rd Annual Costume & Charity Ball

MythMedia Studios Philadelphia

The AfroFuturist Affair is throwing our 3rd Annual Charity & Costume Ball: Dark Phase Space on November 9, 2013 at MythMedia Studios in Philadelphia! At the annual Ball we celebrate and bring awareness to AfroFuturistic culture with feature artists, authors, and performers who will present works and creations that use Afrofuturism and Sci-Fi as vehicles […]

$15

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THE SPECULATIVE ABYSS: A spec-fic reading with Elwin Cotman & Alex Smith

A-Space Anarchist Community Center 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA

ELWIN COTMAN's work evokes the strangeness simmering underneath the floorboards of New Orleans speakeasys; the sort of melancholy soaked into the floorboards of a Carolina porch in misty May. Weaving through the murkier, funnier parts of American dreams, stopping right at the horizon of nightmare and flat-out hilarious, Cotman delivers a well needed shock to […]