METROPOLARITY

Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo | RIPE 2014
2014-08-02 08:00 - 2014-08-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St, Providence, RI, 02903, United States
About
The Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo (RIPExpo) is a summer weekend devoted to small-press and self-published comics, zines and books. Artists and writers from all over North America will join local creators to share work and generate discussion. RIPExpo is committed to giving voice to those underrepresented in mainstream media.
Date
August 2 & 3, 2014
Location
Providence Public Library
150 Empire St
Providence, RI
02903
Safer Spaces and Harassment Policy
more info coming soon!

TRAVELERS a speculative reading
2014-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Revolving Bookcase, 1236 S. 53rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
an evening for speculative reading
with
elwin cotman
rasheedah phillips
oki sogumi
NOV 3rd, 7pm~
at revolving bookcase in southwest philly
1236 S. 53rd Street, 19143

Intro to Afrofuturism
2014-11-06 17:30 - 20:30 | The Weigley Room, 9th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple University, 1115 W Berks St, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
Join the Organization of African American Studies Undergraduate Students (OAASUS) at Temple University’s Gladfelter Hall for an Introduction to Afrofuturism, featuring special guest speaker, Rasheedah Phillips.
Thursday, November 6th, 5:30 PM

The AfroFuturist Affair Presents: |BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY| 4th Annual Charity & Costume Ball WEEKEND
2014-11-08 20:00 | Impact Hub, 1227 N 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
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.
NOV. 8 – Charity and Costume Ball – $10 donation
Please join us at Impact Hub Philly as we celebrate and bring awareness to Afrofuturism and Black SciFi culture with feature visual and performance artists, authors, and presenters whose creations use Afrofuturism and Black Sci-Fi as vehicles for expression and agency. Costumes and theme-wear strongly encouraged (check our past photos)!
Sounds Provided by:
Visibly Inflight (ATL)
Ganja Goons (SC)
Violet Marley
MMGZ and the BHM Band
Warren C. Longmire
Marlo Reynolds
Nyfolt
John Wesley Moon
DJ Willy Wino
Live Art with:
Omi Urban Gypsy
Month-long Afrofuturist Art Gallery featuring:
Dezz Archie
Nyfolt
Noni Red
Omi Urban Gypsy
+BQF Private art collection
Indigenous Techniques Afterparty at House of Future Sciences. Details TBA

Nov 13 – MultiMedia Night – $3-5 donation
Join us at Impact Hub for an evening of Afrofuturist, Black Scifi, and Horror documentary and films
Featuring:
Habesha Undefined by Selam Films: Prince of Nowhere
A Dangerous Cure: the Movie by Kevin Jarvis
Last Man Standing by Stan West
NOISEGATE by Donovan Vim Crony
Walk With Me by Art Punch Studio
+ other shorts
Nov. 15 – Workshops/Readings – $3-5 donation
Details TBA soon
Sponsored by
Philadelphia Printworks
Metropolarity
ROCKERS!
Fanbros.com
Lissa Alicia Independent Media and Marketing
All proceeds benefit The Futurist Fund Community Grant, which provides emergency assistance to low-income community members. More info atwww.afrofuturistaffair.com.

BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY Indigenous Future House Party
2014-11-08 23:00 | House of Future Sciences, 3213 TURNER ST, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
OFFICIAL BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY AFTERPARTY
FREE ENTRY WITH COSTUME & CHARITY BALL TICKET STUB | $3 BEFORE MIDNIGHT
with
LIVE DRUMS
HARAM
PRECOLUMBIAN
NOLITA SELECTOR

Philly Zine Fest
2014-11-09 12:00 - 18:00 | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
COME PICK UP THE NEW RELEASE

The obligatory: For over a decade, this annual event has provided an open-forum for anyone with anything to say using paper / print media.
Subject matter typically ranges from radical politics, civil rights, and sustainability to personal reflections to off-center entertainment (bizarre comics, punk rock).

BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY MOVIE NIGHT
2014-11-13 17:00 - 21:00 | Impact Hub, 1227 N 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY MOVIE NIGHT
Impact Hub Philly | November 13, 5pm – 8pm
Join us for an evening of Afrofuturist, Black Scifi, and Horror films
FILMS
Habesha Undefined by Selam Bekele
A Dangerous Cure by Kevin Jarvis
Last Man Standing by Stan West
NOISEGATE by Donovan Vim Crony
Walk With Me by Art Punch Studio
+ other shorts
Movie Tickets
part of the Afrofuturist Affair’s 4th Annual Costume & Charity Ball

BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY Readings & Workshops
2014-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 | A-Space Anarchist Community Center, 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, 19143, United States
“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
www.metropolarity.net
Moor Mother Goddess/Two Weeks 3 Release and Talk
www.mmgzmmgz.tumblr.com
ALMAH THE ALCHEMIST/In the Temple of Mitochondrial Eve workshop
http://transmodernfestival.com/2010/category/essays
DR. RONE SHAVERS/Reading and Afrofuturism talk
BHTP/
+ MORE
7-10PM
A-SPACE
$ donation
WWW.AFROFUTURISTAFFAIR.COM

BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY Last ROCKERS of 2014
2014-11-19 21:00 | Dahlak Paradise, 4708 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
The Afrofuturist Affair x Black Quantum Futurism
BLACK HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY
presents
ROCKERS!
final of 2014
featuring
Chiuatl Ce
The Mighty Paradocs
Sunny Ali & The Kid
Bells Roar
King Azaz
with renegade readings by
St. Skribbly LaCroix
Moor Mother Goddess
AT DAHLAK PARADISE NOVEMBER 19TH. 9PM

CHR0M# CITY
2014-12-06 21:00 | Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
A FUCKING MOOD PARTY YO.
Smash 2.o iz
***** A QUEER ART-DANCE CYBORG JAM *****
night fight in the 80s, street lights gleaming off your visor, brandishing knives at punx tweaker yuppie scum, knives in the night time, trans am hologram cyborg dreams interlinking, just ruined in the space race, nuclear wardancing into the new age, living in the cracks of the n e o n s u n light ////LET’S GIVE CYBORG FACE ALL NITE///
featuring:
DJ JOHN MORRISON
(Fly Life/Sankofa House)
DJ RYAN TODD
(Robotique)

MOOR MOTHER GODDESS + DJ HARAM
*art damaged transcendent hip hop*
(Rockers!/Central Plexus/CutnPaste)
GREY NEBRASKA
*glitchy, witchy, swirly trance enduction*
(LAVENDER HOUSE)
TRANSGENDER VHS
*Baltimore neon-noise experimentalist*
https://soundcloud.com/transgendervhs
METROPOLARITY + guests KATIE ZALL and OKI SUGUMI
*cosmic space readings throughout the night*
hosted by:
MAGUS EIGHTEEN
(Metropolarity/Laser Life)
http://cyborgmemoirs.com/
ICON EBONY FIERCE
art life:
MARTIN PEEVES
curated by:
ALEXOTERIC
(Metropolarity/Fly Life/Smash)
Liquid Sky X The Terminator X the Funhouse on the set of Paris is Burning. #live4eva #restingglitchface
http://metropolarity.net/
we are asking for a $10 donation
thanks for your support!!

CANARIES group show at Cleopatra's w/Maggie Eighteen
2014-12-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Cleopatra’s, 110 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, United States
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.
FEATURING THE CANARIES
Jesse Cohen, Marley Freeman, Christine Kelly, Carolyn Lazard, Molly Lowe, Victoria Vreeland, Rebecca Watson Horn

WITH PRESENTATIONS BY
Danyel M Ferrari, Saralee Gallien and Roxanne Baker, Maggie Eighteen
Opening, November 16, 5:00 – 7:00PM
November 17 – December 22, 2014
The schedule of events will be updated often on their website: http://cleopatras.us

Canaries

“When we speak of the outside, we are considering only half of the whole”
-Jung., Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Fhloston Paradigm + Rasheedah Phillips + Robotique
2014-12-15 20:00 - 23:00 | Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19125, United States
Fhloston Paradigm (King Britt / Pia Ercole / Mike Todd) with our own Rasheedah Phillips and Robotique sci-fi DJ set.
Very nice.

Rest in Power Brandon Tate-Brown. Family support benefit
2015-01-30 18:00 - 22:00 | LAVA zone, 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, 19104, United States
rest in power Brandon Tate-Brown. family support benefit this Friday at #lavaspace

Anthony Romero x Metropolarity present ERASURE
2015-01-31 19:00 - 23:00 | Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
4th AUX Curatorial Fellow Anthony Romero and Metropolarity present “Erasures.”
We are honored to have Metropolarity join us for an evening of sci-fi dreaming, scheming, and reading.
Event: Metropolarity “Erasures”
Start: January 31, 2015 7:00 pm
End: January 31, 2015 10:00 pm
Cost: FREE
Venue: AUX
Phone: 215-238-1236
Address: 319 N 11th Street, Third Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107
what is “erasure”?
first, understand–your navigators:
Ras Masramani
**a vessel, a vast and veiny husk calcified in the rigorous vacuum of space, pulverized into turbid canals that pulsed star juice through galaxies, lands on a reef or at the obfuscated gate of a casino or social security office or the alien terrain of near africa.

Maggie Eighteen
**elastic silicone bands stretch over bones, attaching filamentous fibers to sinewy muscle. fire wire snakes through peripatetic systems while nanite swarms swim upstream through corroded, murky bone marrow.
Home

Rasheedah Phillips
**pilot weary with exploding artery coalesces from temporal residue, from chronal ephemera stretched through portals, diving through a wormhole pricked by errant light, birthed through a cone, surveyor solidified.
www.afrofuturistaffair.com
Alex Smith
**mythmaker with sudden sentience, emerges from the proud licks of the swamp, brandishing sick sigils and taking flight, the leaked last light of the lamp of the universe, a goddess in kevlar and neoprene, strafing the skies and embedded in our god pining hearts, in the stratosphere
http://theafterv3rse.tumblr.com/
all of this we have forgotten, all of this was erased.
On January 31, 2015, Metropolarity, a mercurial band of radical sci-fi architects and tantric electroglpyhs, together, with Anthony Romero, avant-activist and advanced idea technopilot, embarked on a mystical journey through time, space, and the biosphere to retrieve the stolen memories, the lost idea spark of the known universe. Because they lived in times where the voice of the oppressed (queer black and brown bodies; don’t trip) was muffled, cataloged and ultimately erased, where their lives were scrutinized, their skin and bodies criminalized and made alien, where their stories, long forgotten, were stolen and then retold and repackaged by interlopers, then sold back to them under the well-worn veil of diversity hashtags, the cosmonauts of Metropolarity geared up on a mission to shift the paradigm of their world, not to change it, but to right it’s course.
This is what happened. This is ERASURE.
anthony romero: anthonyjoelromero.tumblr.com

THE LASER LIFE: QUEER SF READING SERIES RETURNS
2015-02-20 18:30 - 21:00 | A-Space Anarchist Community Center, 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
OUR CHURCH CONGREGATES AGAIN.
LASER LIFE. A queer sci-fi reading.
Everything examined is possible. Everything in the universe, from the widely posted to the under served, belongs here, in the forefront of consciousness and being. Every particle, every node, every ion that pulses and vibrates throughout the eternal void, it all has a voice, is real.
There are no mistakes in characterization; there are no budding accidents or effortless imaginations. All things scribed and etched in parchment are the divine edicts of their authors, influenced by the shifting winds of the zeitgeist of the world the scribe inhabits, and is informed by the pulse body-mind electric elective mandate.
Despite the insistence of the dominant paradigm that elects to leave us voiceless, facing the peripatetic void, there is still a way. We can still choose our own adventure, we can still choose our own narrative. We can live life on the narrowest edge of a beam of light. We can live in the crevices of the universe where dark matter subsists, arcing over singularities where exploding nebulae enmesh with wild-born comets, streaking through the opaque nothing/everywhere to burst as chroma on a graf tagged wall. We can live life like a laser.
So understand: All is real. The choices you make of the creatures you give life to, all wiry gnarl of angst, all bulbous and disheveled wad of messy coagulate, all sinewy stretched meat of universe stuff– they’re all also real and exist here with us in the “real world” forever. Will they strive for their own happiness? Will their own arcs be catapulted into an unfettered birth? Will their joy and pain serve as real, palpable, and conscientious? Or will they wither and die, lay flat on the page as husks, merely cannon fodder for the oppressing class, to die a death as a strangled trope loosed of the juiced of life?
The LASER LIFE series of readings is designed to expose the quantumly quantative, psycho-spiritual, panoramic truth of the speculative, to make real the shaman’s holler, the mystic’s clamour, the soothsayer’s griot-speak– all that was falsely remembered as unreal. Laser Life is a tour beyond the stilted cis-hetero-white-male gaze of normative “science fiction” that plagues the shelves of your local bookstore and Goodreads “to read” lists. It is hoped that Laser Life does not serve as tokenistic or anomalous within the ranks of science fiction, but that the inclusion of our marginalized voices be viewed as not only empowering, necessary or revolutionary, but as intrinsic.
Laser Life is everything, and everything in its place: the nook of all that is possible for us to view: the whole of the universe.
So now it is up to you to write this way.
your guides:
SHANE JENKINS

RAS MASHRAMANI

RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS

MAGGIE EIGHTEEN

your guests:
MAMI WATU
JOEL NICHOLS
AZEEM NPC
ya’ll know how we do

SINGULARITY: THE ONE-PIECE FEST
2015-02-21 13:00 - 22:00 | Cha-Cha’razzi, 2639 Poplar Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
o N e
I was talking about time. It’s so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened
ALEX SMITH
NEGATIVE INFINITY
WILL
LOW MOAN HOVER ( EX BY V)
DIANNE (TROPHY WIFE)
DOG DAYS
ST. SKRIBBLY LACROIX
FLESH PRINCE
SHERMAN
TREE NAMED TURTLE
JUDAH THE OX
K.I.N
OHM
LIVING
MMGZ
WHAT NERVE
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if you want to distro zines / hit up sdfsbooking@gmail
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more info coming soon

New York Feminist Zine Fest
2015-03-07 12:00 - 18:00 | Barnard College, James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York City, NY, 10027, United States
NYC Feminist Zinefest 2015 is happening SATURDAY MARCH 7th from 12-6pm at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, NYC.
This event is all ages & free to the public. Come visit the squad, get gear, and visit with other goodly folks.
Peep the list of who’s tabling and read more about the fest here: https://feministzinefestnyc.wordpress.com/who/
Poster by Slim Lopez

Metropolarity at Swarthmore's Queer & Trans Conference
2015-03-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Olde Club at Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA, 19081, United States
Eyy catch us up at Swarthmore as featured guests of Swarthmore’s Queer and Trans Conference.
Swarthmore College’s annual Queer and Trans Conference (QTC) is a student-run, free, and public conference that explores critical topics of queer and trans thinking, playing, working, organizing, and living. The planning committee is a group of students committed to radical queer and trans community building and justice. Each year we invite a group of activists, scholars, and artists to join queer and trans students, faculty, and staff and their friends from Swarthmore College, nearby schools, and the greater Philadelphia area for a weekend of learning, discussion, and performance around a theme relevant to the histories and lives of our communities. We invite a diverse group of presenters who will help us to re-center queer and trans discourse around voices and perspectives marginalized by mainstream gay rights movements. Our conference spotlights the fabulous work of queer and trans people of color, people with dis/abilities, indigenous, poor, and (im)migrant people. When possible, we bring individuals and groups who live and work locally and those who are structurally denied access to resources available to us at Swarthmore.
In past years, conferences and symposiums have explored sexual politics of the bedroom, boardroom, and classroom; queer media; queer coalition building; the intersections of race, religion, and gender; queer and trans activism; debates around same-sex marriage; and queer families and homes. This year’s conference, “Resisting Violence, Building Queer Safety,” seeks to address and begin conversations about safety in queer and trans communities.

CHROME CITY 2: No, New York
2015-03-21 19:00 - 23:00 | Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
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.
1love
No bands.
SWARM
***emissary work, elegaic work ship***
PINK WASH
***tachyon tactile technician, tetrazoid program***
XXXTIAN BEAUTY
***electric riot control, banjee intellect , hardwire woke work**
No djs.
NOLITA SELECTOR
JOHN MORRISON
***control room plus***
PANOPTIC NERVE
***synesthetic sorcery, sun sun eye control***
No hosts.
ICON EBONY FIERCE
ALEXOTERIC
No guides.
METROPOLARITY

RIPExpo: Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo 2015
2015-03-28 10:00 - 2015-03-29 18:00 | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire St, Providence, RI, 02903, United States
The 2015 Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo takes place the weekend of March 28th and 29th at the Providence Public Library in Providence, RI.
RIPExpo is a weekend devoted to small-press and self-published comics, zines and books. Artists and writers from all over the land mass will join local creators to share work and generate discussion. RIPExpo is committed to giving voice to those underrepresented in the mainstream media.
Find out more about exhibitors, panels, and after events at RIPExpo’s website [here].
Metropolarity is honored to be a Special Guest in 2015! Last year’s Special Guests included Sophie Yanow, Lale Westvind, Leah Wishnia, Mickey Z, Suzy X and Jacob Berendes.

Sci Fi and Direct Action Training with adrienne maree brown
2015-04-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Leeway Foundation, 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
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/

Spring Forward to a Less than Gradual Death: spring trans poets showcase
2015-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | A-Space Anarchist Community Center, 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, 19143, United States
spring forward into your less than gradual death with local trans poets & writers:
Maggie Eighteen of Metropolarity
Hayden Elizabeth
Die Dragonetti
Amarah Selaphiel
Grey Nebraska

Black Quantum Futurism Mini writing retreat for the far out and gone
2015-04-26 14:30 - 17:00 | House of Future Sciences, 3213 TURNER ST, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
Black Quantum Futurism Presents:
writing workshops for the far out & gone
3 workshops – 1 Day
{anthropology of consciousness}
{speculative fiction and the unknown)
{song writing +freestyling 101}
Open to All ages
workshops are $5
$10 for all 3 workshops
Lunch included
sign up/ more info at blackquantumfuturism@gmail.com

Sci/Fi, Superheroes, & Sorcery: An Evening of Geeky Poetry with The Apiary Corp
2015-04-30 19:00 - 22:00 | Tattooed Mom’s, 530 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Sonnets for cyborgs, limericks about wizards, free form foncrete poems about your secret identity in the shape of your superhero symbol. All forms of geeky poetry will be welcome at Tattooed Mom on April 30th starting at 7:00 pm! We’ve paired up with The Apiary Corp. to bring you a night full of SF/F poetry.
Featuring the poetic stylings of Fran Wilde, the night will also be open to anyone who would like to share their innermost musings on the plight of dragons, AI love, or any topic from fandom.
The open mic will work on a first come/first serve basis, so if you want to read, make sure you get there early and sign up!
In addition to some excellent poetry, we’ll be raffling off an assortment of prizes courtesy of your favorite local comic shops and Tattooed Mom’s

What's the Science? A Night of Poetic Game Play
2015-05-02 20:00 - 23:00 | Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Enjoy the literary side of science with writers Tamara Oakman, Grant Clauser, Chris McCreary, Bryan Dickey, Rasheedah Phillips, Kathryn Ionata, Kyrwin Sutherland, Matt Charles, and Maggie Eighteen selected by The Apiary Corp., Bedfellows, Philadelphia Stories, Gigantic Sequins, Cleaver Magazine, Thread Makes Blanket, Painted Bride Quarterly, The AfroFuturist Affair, Metropolarity and Fact-Simile Editions.
Writers respond to the prompt “What’s the Science?” to describe how they imagine (or prefer to imagine) various phenomena occur, collaboratively creating a new cosmology. From sweaty suns to train rainbows, you’re sure to delight in this new world.
Suggested donation $7-10
Read bios of the participants at length here: https://www.facebook.com/events/472004649618093

STATE OF EMERGENCY: Black Women Lives
2015-05-03 01:00 - 16:00 | Neighborhood Time Exchange Studios, 4017 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Black women and girls are out here dying every moment, from state violence, domestic violence, street violence, and self-inflicted violence. We absolutely must discuss and brainstorm solutions for saving our women and girls NOW.
1-3pm – Closed discussion and safespace for Black women and Black trans*persons to share their personal struggles and experiences with violence and suicide, survival stories, and solutions. POC trans*persons in need of safespace are welcome.
3-4pm – Open discussion and forum for ALL to discuss community solutions and action steps for supporting Black women and girls and protecting them against violence. Discussion will be lightly moderated by BQF Collective to maintain the focus.
** light refreshments and snacks
** optional potluck
** all ages [sensitive topics discussed]
** free
** Childcare may be available from Philadelphia Child Care Coalition
– Safe space is a term for an area or forum where either a marginalised group are not supposed to face standard mainstream stereotypes and marginalisation, or in which a shared political or social viewpoint is required to participate in the space. (via Geek Feminism)
There will be information and resources available for survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence. If you have resources and information to contribute for survivors of suicide and depression, or street harassment, please contact us at blackquantumfuturism@gmail.com

Chicago Zine Fest
2015-05-08 17:00 - 2015-05-09 18:00
Pick up some of our zines, stickers, and pins with No Shame Distro at the fest!
All info here: http://chicagozinefest.org/?page_id=1218

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.2 BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM RELEASE PARTY
2015-05-22 22:00 | Dahlak Paradise, 4708 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T
< ♏︎E T A ⌔ T ◎ N E >
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
2015-05-28 15:00 - 2015-05-31 18:00 | Ibis Conservation Room, 1401 Leonidas St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, 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.
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2015 Trans Literary Salon
2015-06-04 19:30 - 21:30 | PA Convention Center, 1101 Arch St , Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
In conjunction with the 2015 Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Leeway presents the Third Annual Trans Literary Salon highlighting the work of emerging literary artists from a diversity of genres including poetry, fiction, memoir, and spoken word. At the Philadelphia Convention Center, June 4 from 7:30pm – 9:30pm.
Featured Performers: poet Cyrée Johnson (ACG ’13), sci-fi writer Maggie Eighteen (ACG ’14), poet, Kavindu Ade, performer Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, and writer/activist, Tyler Vile. Co-curated and Hosted by Annie Mok (LTA ’14, ACG ’13), and J Mase III (ACG ’07). Audience members are invited to bring work to share!
Special thanks to the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference
Community Partners: Apiary Magazine, awQward, Gender Reel Lambda Literary, Metropolarity, Morris Home, Thread Makes Blanket, Trans Oral History Project, Topside Press, Trans Masculine Alliance Network, Trans* Wellness Project, Trans Women of Color Collective
Cyree Jarelle Johnson is a Black non-binary essayist and poet living and working in Philadelphia, PA. 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 most recently in the anthology Poems for the Queer Revolution.
Kavindu Ade
Kavindu Ade is a 24 year old Wordsmith, Jedi, and Black Boy Extraordinaire. Born in Brooklyn, NY to Afro-Caribbean immigrants his poetry is a dance between cultures. While best known for his gender identity poem entitled “IT,” Kavi’s work centers on his navigation of intersecting identities – among those, the relation of his Blackness to his transcendence of gender. Through his poetry the world unfolds itself into moments of cruelty, but also beauty, wonder, and becoming. Kavi has been performing since 2009 when he made his debut into the spoken word scene at Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam. After two consecutive years competing on the international stage Kavi went on to coach the Philly Youth Poetry Slam Team that competes at BNV. He is also the coach of Temple University’s Slam Team. Kavi has performed at conferences from Vancouver, Washington to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and has had the pleasure of gracing the stage at Grinnell College, Rutgers University, Ursinus College, and Clark University among others. Off stage, he is probably in his room enjoying a good bowl of cereal, binge watching detective shows, or posting his best attempts at immaculate selfies.
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
An actor, singer, dancer and writer she began producing her own cabarets at the age of seventeen and made her New York cabaret Debut at Don’t Tell Mama’s in 2011. After beginning to study the Dances of her Ancestors at Mamasita Studio, she began combining African, Latin and Native American rhythms to her shows. Although primarily known for her explosive style of cabaret, Lady Dane is a passionate actor who has worked at such theaters as the Kennedy Center, Adventure Theater, Round House Theater, Theater for the New City, Spooky Action Theater, Arena Stage, and LaMama in New York in which she originated the role of Madame Cordelia Mcclain. She has also produced a reading of her new musical Roaring, and premiered a workshop of her one woman show Klytmnestra at SpookyAction Theatre. A Poet, and advocate for Trans Voices in the arts she became the first Trans Woman of Color in DC published author of a work of fiction, Yemaya’s Daughters.
Maggie Eighteen
A hybrid kid cyborg, Philadelphia native, and former girl-object prototype. Eighteen is frustrated/pissed with academic distinction, white supremacy, and fixed rather than fluid treatment of language and identity. A co-founder of Metropolarity sci-fi collective, they enjoy slang/dialects, brand confusion, bushido Mars death stuff, and nuance. When they are not working professionally in critical media literacy and empowerment areas, they write speculative fiction about bodies/objectification, intimacy/class, neighborhood/community, and the violence in relying on binaries to understand the world.
Tyler Vile
Tyler Vile is a poet, performer, and activist from Baltimore, Maryland whose work has been published in Gadfly, The Bicycle Review, and Bluestockings Magazine. She’s done reviews and interviews for Punk Globe Magazine since 2007, has spotlighted at Sparkle, DC’s monthly queer open mic series, and slammed at Capturing Fire, DC’s annual queer spoken word festival. Her full-length book of poetry, Never Coming Home, is forthcoming on Topside Press.
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