Ras, Eighteen, maybe Alex too, will be on hand at this week's Comma Talk: Curated & hosted by Maryan Captan, comma talk is a discussion-based and audience interactive reading series featuring Philadelphia's emerging writers and poets. With a goal of exploring and discussing creative process, themes, and techniques used in the featured writers' work, Comma […]
**what is this is**
**queer sci-fi reading**
OUR CHURCH
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.
Join Metropolarity, APIARY Magazine, and the Free Library of Philadelphia for an afternoon of writers’ workshops and readings. This year, Metropolarity and APIARY Magazine have joined forces to produce a sci-fi themed issue exploring the nature of vulnerability in our present realities of mass incarceration, mass surveillance, social media, and the potential for revolution. This event is part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's local iteration of the national 7 Days of Genius Festival #thatsgenius
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. One-on-one writers’ coaching with Apiary Magazine. Bring your own writing, and you’ll receive feedback. First come first served. (Grand Lobby)
1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. SOFT TARGETS: Science Fiction as memoir in a reality of apocalypse. A workshop with the writers from Metropolarity about living under capitalism/militarism and using that as inspiration for writing (Room 108).
3:30 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. Reading and Q & A with Metropolarity and friends (Montgomery Auditorium).
@afrofuturistaffair // @blackquantumfuturism present the Space-Time Collapse Tour dates for April 2016 - readings, lectures, and panels on temporality, quantum futurism, speculation, displacement, future visioning, #diytimetravel at @universityoftoronto @penndesign @mocada_museum @ardentheatreco @thewoodenshoebooks @stocktonuniversity #afrofuturism #blackquantumfuturism #blackwomenwriters
Sirius JuJu
David Xu Borgonjon
Rasheedah Phillips
Laboria Cuboniks
Anthony Monteiro
PANEL/QnA
from the SOTHIS platform for the advancement of intelligent life-forms:
Present (noun) "this period of time, not the past or the future; now"
Re- (prefix) "used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion"
Present (verb) "to give, show, provide, or make known"
-Ing (suffix) "Art is not a be-ing, but a Being, the simple noun. It is not the verb, but its product." -Leroi Jones
$5-20 no one turned away
COMMUNITY POTLUCK & OPEN ACCESS SOCIAL CRITICISM OPEN MIC NIGHT DETAILS TBA THE LAST ONE: 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 […]
We have the tea
We have the lemonade
We shall serve
(soon we will bring it to the *real* Paris and watch IT burn)
Sofistifunk meets Chrome City! FLY LIFE!
AURA! JOHN MORRISON! ALEX! DUIJI 13! ICON EBONY FIERCE! We here ya'll!!
**this is an lgbtq function. no misogyny or homophobia tolerated, queer love and expression celebrated**
PHILADELPHIA THIS FRIDAY
Trans Women of Color Collective's ASCENSION
A concert in the park, celebrating Black trans and gender nonconforming artists in conjunction with the 2016 Philadelphia Trans Health Conference.
Curated by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi and co-hosted by Cyree Jarelle Johnson (ACG '13), Ascension features Lucas Charlie Rose, Venus Selenite, Sidney Chase, Marco Munroe, Jordan Hope Miller, Nila Nokizaru, and Kavi Ade.
This is an outdoor, free event. No RSVP required. Friday, June 10 6:00 pm-8:00 pm at Thomas Paine Plaza (1401 John F. Kennedy Boulevard).
http://www.twocc.us/
DETROIT / ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE 2016
Space has often been used as a metaphor for uncharted, yet-to-be colonized territory. Similarly the mindspaces of marginalized persons are at risk of being infiltrated, surveilled, and used by colonizing forces. In this workshop we will use a DIY sci-fi lens for marginalized persons to explore and reclaim their own insane mindspaces while developing strategies for psychological survival in our age of warfare.
Presented by Ras Mashramani.
Friday June 17, 2016 4:00pm - 5:30pm
State Hall: Room 113
Hands-on Session
Track RAD Care Beyond Social Justice
Hashtag #DeepSpaceMind
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
+ 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
MORE INFO TBA
@ROCKERS ON FB FOR QUESTIONS
Door at 7:30 // Performances at 8, $15 cover
ALL AGES
21+ beer for donations
319 Performance Space (aka AUX @Vox Populi)
319 N. 11th St. 3rd floor
Philadelphia PA
**accessible by 3 steps to elevator-help will be provided for those who need it!**
**AIR CONDITIONED**