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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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SUMMARY:TRANS & GENDER NONCONFORMING YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Writers House invites you to join a new \nWriting Group for Trans\n& Gender Non-Conforming Youth  \n This monthly writing group is open and free of charge for youth ages 14–22 who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming (GNC). The group will meet monthly at Kelly Writers House on the University of Pennsylvania campus on the second Saturday of the month\, 12:00–2:00pm. No experience or expertise in writing is expected. Trans and GNC-identified guest writers will lead the group each month\, and trans and GNC-identified facilitators will attend and support all monthly sessions. Lunch will be provided\, as well as SEPTA tokens for transportation to and from the group. Come join us! \n  \nSeptember 10 – Andrew Spiers\, Kalen McLean and Hazel Edwards\, facilitators \nCome meet and start writing with the three trans and GNC-identified people who will facilitate the writing group and help establish ground rules and brainstorm topics participants want to write about. Andrew Spiers is a trans/queer writer\, musician\, and radical social worker. Kalen McLean works at the Mazzoni Center and helps facilitate a support group for young trans and GNC youth. Hazel Edwards is an artist\, trans activist\, and member of the Justice League at the Attic’s Bryson Center. \n  \nOctober 8\, 2016 – Guest Writer Kavi Ade  \nKavindu “Kavi” Ade is a writer\, activist\, arts educator\, and nationally recognized spoken word poet. While best known for their gender identity poem titled “IT\,” Kavi’s work most often bridges the realms of personal and political identity – navigating what it means to be Black\, Transgender\, Queer\, and first-generation American all at once. Through their poetry the world unfolds itself in moments of cruelty\, rage\, and grief\, but also beauty\, wonder\, and becoming. \n  \nNovember 12\, 2016 – Guest Writers Mel Bentley and Leah B. \nMel Bentley co-organizes Housework at Chapterhouse\, a reading series in Center City. They have two chapbooks published from 89plus/Luma Foundation and Lamehouse Press. Leah B. (Ksenya Leah Basarab) creates experimental musical fragments and prose/narrative/essay-form written works. Her musical pieces are an energized form of communication that involves sharing a myriad of emotions\, memories\, and opinions via varying vocalizations\, a bass guitar\, timing effects/layers\, sometimes a piano\, and more rarely a cello. \n  \nDecember 10\, 2016 – Guest Writer M Eighteen Téllez\n \nA founding member of the METROPOLARITY sci-fi collective\, Eighteen is a hybrid mestiza cyborg and Philadelphia native who is frustrated/pissed with institutional distinction\, empire and white supremacy\, and fixed rather than fluid treatment of language and identity. They consider the spoken and written word handy and inexpensive tools for deconstructing oppressive world-ordering narratives. \n  \nJanuary 14\, 2017 – Guest Writer Cyree Jarelle Johnson \nCyree Jarelle Johnson is a Black non-binary essayist and poet living and working in Philadelphia. Their writing considers disability as a cyborg femme reality\, femininity as resistance and rebellion\, and Black pessimism. They are a founding member of A Collective Apparition\, a Black queer and trans interdisciplinary arts collective. Their work has been featured in publications both domestically and internationally including Black Girl Dangerous\, Feministing\, and in the anthology Poems for the Queer Revolution. \n  \nFebruary 11\, 2017 – Guest Writer Trish Salah \nTrish Salah is a Lebanese/Irish-Canadian feminist writer and educator whose writing addresses trans themes as well as questions of diasporic Arab identity\, anti-racism\, queer politics and economic and social justice. Her first volume of poetry\, Wanting in Arabic\, published in 2002 then reissued\, won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction in 2014. Roof Books published her second book\, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1\, in 2014. \n  \nMarch 11\, 2017 – Guest Writer Davy Knittle \nDavy Knittle is a poet whose chapbooks include empathy for cars / force of july (horse less press) and cyclorama (the operating system). He is a PhD candidate in English at Penn\, where he thinks about what cities and poetry have to say to each other\, and how poetry might help cities make room for everyone who lives in them. \n  \nApril 8\, 2017 – End-of-year party and chapbook launch \nWe will have an end-of-year celebration at Kelly Writers House where the youth can share their writing with friends and family. \n  \nSessions will take place at Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, on the University of Pennsylvania campus\, except on October 8 and March 11\, when the writing group will be held at the LGBT Center at Penn\, 3907 Spruce Street. Questions? Please contact Amy Hillier at ahillier@upenn.edu or Andrew Spiers at andrewspiersmss@gmail.com or Rachel Zolf at zolfr@writing.upenn.edu. Funding for the writing group is provided by Kelly Writers House and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. \n  \n 
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/trans-gender-nonconforming-youth-writing-workshop-series/
LOCATION:Kelly Writer’s House\, 3805 Locust Walk \, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops,Youth Events,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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SUMMARY:100 Days Instead of Prisons Video Premier & Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:THE ART FACTORY & DECARCERATE PA PRESENT: \nCome 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.  \nOur Videos Are: \n~EVOLUTION OF PRISON: THE BACKGROUND FOR DECARCERATE PA \n~WHAT WE WANT: THE PLATFORM OF DECARCERATE PA \n~PLASTIC UPRISING: THE WORK OF DECARCERATE PA \nALSO THERE WILL BE……\nPerformances\nFood\nSpeakers from Decarcerate\nArt-making for the 100 days campaign \nThis summer\, we collaborated with Decarcerate PA and PhillyCAM for six weeks to make three short stop-motion videos to help people realize the grand actuality of the Prison Industrial Complex. PhillyCAM was gracious enough to let us use their equipment and their space while we planned\, filmed\, recorded and edited the 3 videos. Decarcerate PA helped us clear up the clouds by telling us more about what they do as well as the political and community results and consequences of mass incarceration. We hope that these pieces will shed light on the current situation\, and inspire people to join the movement to stop the prison industry and reinvest in the community.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/100-days-instead-of-prisons-video-premier-launch-party/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings & Performances,Youth Events
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SUMMARY:Fargo-Moorehead Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFMZF is honored to present a screening of the movie Rez with a Q & A with member/s of the cast and crew after. \nFMZF will continue to offer community building events in the meantime. \nFargo-Moorhead Zine Fest was created with the goal of educating people of all ages about zines. In addition to being just plain awesome to read and make\, zines have enormous potential for self-empowerment\, raising self-esteem\, healthy self-expression\, and promoting literacy. \nZines are an inexpensive and easily distributable way to express ideas\, showcase art or photography\, or invite discussion on a topic. Zines have been around in various forms since the invention of the printing press. FMZF was founded by Joyce Hatton\, Midwest Coordinator of the POC Zine Project.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/fargo-moorehead-zine-fest/
LOCATION:UU Church\, 121 9th St S\, Fargo\, ND\, 58103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings & Performances,Workshops,Youth Events,Zine & Book Events
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