2PM -4PM: WORKSHOPS -YOGA WITH THE HOUSE OF HAYES -CAPOEIRA WITH LOBO MA -STOP-MOTION DIY STORIES WITH HOMEGROWN.ORG -CIRQUE MANIKK -QUANTUM TIME CAPSULE - -SCREEN PRINTING & PATCH MAKING WITH PHILLYPRINTWORKS 4PM -6PM: POP UP MOVIES & BBQ & ZINE FEST POP UP MOVIE: SPACE IS THE PLACE PRESENTED BY MYTHMEDIA21 & LIBERATION MOVIE NIGHT […]
The AfroFuturist Affair and Sanctuary Wholistic Arts Presents Wine, Spirit, & Mind II An Evening of Exploration and Examination of the Inner and Outer Reaches of the Multiverse Please join us for an evening of theory and practice surrounding ancient ^ New Age modes of seeing into alternate dimensions of time. Discussions, practices, and presentations […]
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 […]
Join Leeway Foundation on December 8 to welcome writer and cultural organizer Adrienne Maree Brown for a lively conversation inspired by the work of visionary, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction author Octavia Butler. This discussion will explore the visionary qualities of science/speculative fiction with radical community organizing practice using Butler’s work. Butler’s writing in The Parable series and […]
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.
Metropolarity presents a night of community building and sharing. We seek social criticism from the community--performance art, blog rants, monologues, critical sci-fi, thesis excerpts, protest songs--whatever. As long as it explores and dissects the world we live in today. We want to find out what our community feels about social issues. We don't want theories handed down to us from the ivory tower.
We want your real life STREET THEORY.
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!
DID U KNOW? METROPOLARITY PRESENTS A SCI-FI FOCUSED PROGRAMMING TRACK THIS YEAR!
＼＼＼＼ Liberation Technologies: Sci-Fi for World Building & Survival ／／／／
The 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.
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.
“It’s AFTER the end of the world. Don’t you know that yet?” - SUN RA
In conjunction with our BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY month long celebration of afrofuturism we bring you a night of experimental Readings and Workshops FEATURING
METROPOLARITY ::::: Alexoteric/ Maggie Eighteen/ Ras Mashramani/ Rasheedah Phillips/Experimental Time Order workshop
Moor Mother Goddess/Two Weeks 3 Release and Talk
ALMAH THE ALCHEMIST/In the Temple of Mitochondrial Eve workshop
DR. RONE SHAVERS/Reading and Afrofuturism talk
BHTP/
+ MORE
Join Leeway on Saturday, April 11 for a direct action workshop led by writer, social justice facilitator, and co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements adrienne maree brown. During this training, participants will use familiar stories of other worlds (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Oz, Harry Potter, etc.) to design campaigns that parallel the world we are fighting for in the here and now. By the end of the session, regimes will be toppled, evil forces vanquished, and solid skills in direct action organizing developed.
Copies of Octavia's Brood will be on sale and light snacks will be served. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
This workshop is presented in partnership with: AfroFuturist Affair, Bread & Roses Community Fund, Jewish Voice for Peace, Media Mobilizing Project, MetroPolarity, MythMedia: 21, Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations, and Training for Change.
An Octavia's Brood book release event happens earlier on Friday April 8th at Wooden Shoe Books. More info on that here: https://www.facebook.com/events/833424306751725/