METROPOLARITY

STREET THEORY: A Social Criticism Open Mic Night
2014-05-18 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Cedar Works, 4919 Pentridge Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
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.
Special Guests to be announced.
TO CELEBRATE THE DEBUT OF THIS SERIES, A POTLUCK WILL BE HAD! FEEL FREE TO BRING TREATS TO SHARE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS. 😀
Zines will be sold and donations will be collected for this year’s Allied Media Conference’s Sci-fi Track, coordinated in part by Metropolarity.
Email metropolarity@gmail.com for information on how to participate, otherwise bring your own material to present [reasonable lengths please!].
NOTE: Any ableist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, or classist performances will be interrupted promptly.

XTHETIX DIY LOOK-FEEL G00D SALON // MEMORIAL WKND VERSION
2014-05-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Unnamed Venue, Philadelphia
WATS YR XTHETIK? NEED HELP ACCESSING YOUR COMPARTMENTALIZED SELVES?
VISIT XTHETIX, a recurring BEAUTY/WELLNESS SALON & FUNDRAISER** FOR THE Liberation Technologies SCI-FI TRACK OF THE ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE, this June 19~22 in Detroit!
♡　NAIL ART
☆　STICK N POKES by TBA
♡　SELF-CARE
☆　MAKEUP GLAMOUR CASTING
♡　SELFIESSSS
☆　SHAPEUPS
♡　BRAIDING
☆　TWISTS
♡　SCALP MASSAGE/HAIR BRUSHING
☆　TAROT by TBA
♡　WELLNESS POTIONS by Stitch Prism x Honey & Blackbone Tarot
EXCLUSIVE WEST PHILLY NAIL FLASH/STICK N POKE FLASH
☆　SPIRITED CONCOCTIONS IF U JUST WANNA LEAN　☆
JEWELRY + LITERATURE 4 SALE tambien!
Clean dry hair, please. Feel free to bring own makeup and nails. Braiding includes cornrows. Message us for special requests or needs. BRING INSPIRATION.
HEY HOW MUCH?
Sliding scale for each station: $7-30
INQUIRE FOR ALL ACCESS PASS ::gasp ooooh::
LOCATION:
PACE STUDIOS
4711 chester ave
1st floor, door on the left,
(but we will be on the porch too ^_~)
please note: this location has stairs :/ but holler at us cause we want you there.
♡ JUST IN TIME TO GET CUTE FOR ALL THOSE BBQS N BACKYARD PARTIES ♡
≠ WEIRDOS FREMEN GLITCHES OANKALI CYBORGS FREAKS SPACERS ALIENS SHIP-OF-THE-IMAGINATION CREW MEMBERS LEY LINE WALKERS ALL ARE WELCOME ≠
Want to volunteer or offer a service for donation or shared cut? MSG US!
**What are we fundraising for exactly? As organizers for the sci-fi track of the AMC, it’s our responsibility to do as much fundraising as possible in order to provide financial assistance for presenters’ travel costs, room and board, and other expenses that they are unable to cover themselves. Providing financial assistance is key to bringing many of the amazing workshop & panel presenters that will make up the 9 sessions of our sci-fi oriented media empowerment track of programming at the AMC. This chumpie is trying to get transformative!
The Allied Media Conference is “a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every summer in Detroit.” It’s organized entirely by a decentralized network of volunteers.
Want more info?? https://amc.alliedmedia.org/about/amc-mission

Hot Tears :: Alex Smith :: Ex. By V. :: Little Waist :: Marlo Reynolds
2014-05-24 20:00 - 23:00 | Eris Temple Arts, 602 S 52nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
you really don’t want to miss a show w/ a lineup like this….
Hot Tears (Olympia based)
http://hottears.bandcamp.com/
Little Waist (Brooklyn queercore / transcore )
http://littlewaist.bandcamp.com/
Alex Smith
Marlo Reynolds
http://marloreynolds.bandcamp.com/

Ex. By V.
http://exbyv.bandcamp.com/
space is right @ S. 52nd & Cedar in w. philly
doors @ 7:30 pm
show will start promptly at 8:00pm!
3 to 5$ sliding scale
no one turned away for lack of funds
all ages
see you soon!!

LIMINAL/TEMPORAL YARD SALE
2014-05-25 11:00 - 16:00 | CASTLE, 4800 Warrington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
ANOTHER FUNDRAISER** FOR THE Liberation Technologies SCI-FI TRACK OF THE ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE, this June 19~22 in Detroit!
+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
♡　WEARABLE ITEMS
☆　REFRESHING TEA DRINKS
♡　ONIGIRI RICE TRIANGLES
☆　METROPOLARITY SCI-FI ZINES 4 SALE
♡　OLD WEIRD STUFF (MUSIC/MOVIES/ELECTRONICS/WHAT)
☆　JEWELRY & DECORRR
♡　WELLNESS POTIONS by Stitch Prism x Honey & Blackbone Tarot
☆ AND OTHER ITEMS FOR REFRESHING/REORIENTING UR GENDER/MIND/MATTER STATE
+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
☆　HAVE STUFF YOU WANT TO DONATE TO THE SALE?　☆
MESSAGE US AND WE CAN ARRANGE PICK-UP/DROP-OFF!
+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
**What are we fundraising for exactly? As organizers for the sci-fi track of the AMC, it’s our responsibility to do as much fundraising as possible in order to provide financial assistance for presenters’ travel costs, room and board, and other expenses that they are unable to cover themselves. Providing financial assistance is key to bringing many of the amazing workshop & panel presenters that will make up the 9 sessions of our sci-fi oriented media empowerment track of programming at the AMC. This chumpie is trying to get transformative!
The Allied Media Conference is “a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every summer in Detroit.” It’s organized entirely by a decentralized network of volunteers.
Want more info?? https://amc.alliedmedia.org/about/amc-mission

FLEX GATE: RETURN OF THE HOUSE PARTY
2014-05-31 22:00 | HOUSE OF SPIRIT & TIME, 4823 Hazel Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
／／／／／N　E　X　T 　L　E　V　E　L　！！！
Metropolarity﻿ and Liberation Technologies﻿ UNITE!
OUR MOST EXCELLENT GALAXY HIGH SPECULATIVE HOUSE PARTY CREWS RETURN FOR A WYLD TYME EXPEDITIONARY EXCURSION INTO OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE!
≠ BRING YOUR 11TH DIMENSIONAL BEACONS
≠ BRING YOUR OTHER SELVES
≠ BRING FIVE ($5) BUCKS ／／／C0Z DRINKS & GEAR WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURRRCHA$E
DJs ON DECK 4 SOUNDSCAPE::::::::
≈ PRECOLUMBIAN of CUTN PASTE n SELENA [queer global bass jawn]
≈ DJ JOHN MORRISON ΩΩΩ
≈ DJ ALEX SM1TH of FLY LIFE n LASER LIFE [queer sci-fi reading series]
≈ DJ AURA

2014 Philly Literary Family Reunion & Potluck
2014-06-08 13:00 - 17:00 | Clark Park, 4300 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
VIA OUR FRIENDS, APIARY MAGAZINE
Us Philly poets and writers are lucky to have a beautiful & eccentric extended literary family. Over the last 5 years, APIARY’s met many newfound brothers and sisters, weirdo cousins, inspiring aunties and uncles, adorable nieces and nephews, and wise grands. After a busy spring, it’s time to catch up with everyone!
So on June 8, we’re throwing the first annual Philly Literary Family Reunion in Clark Park. No planned readings, no speeches, no bios. Just a grill & music & any Philly poet, writer, and reader who considers themselves fam.
Bring food or drink (it’s a public park, and there will be folks of all ages, so booze just needs to be non-visible and lowkey … don’t want it to be THAT kind of family reunion…). If you like, one of your chapbooks, CDs, etc to swap. And bring your family, too!
See you soon. Love,
APIARY

2014 Trans Literary Salon
2014-06-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Leeway Foundation, 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
In conjunction with the 2014 Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, the Leeway Foundation presents their Second Trans Literary Salon highlighting the work of emerging literary artists from a diversity of genres including poetry, fiction, memoir, and spoken word. The salon will feature readings from Annie Mok, (ACG ’13), Darkmatter, Imogen Binnie, J Mase III (ACG ’07), and Kokumomedia Inc.. Audience members are invited to bring work to share. Hosted by J Mason III. Thursday, June 12 from 7:30pm – 9:00pm at the Leeway Foundation (1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832). Location is wheelchair accessible.
Co-sponsors:The Apiary Corp., Thread Makes Blanket, Trans Masculine Alliance Network, Topside Press, Sisterly Love, and William Way LGBT Community Center
RSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-trans-literary-salon-tickets-11372283807
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Annie Mok
Annie Mok writes and draw comic books, both solo, and collaboratively with artists including Emily Carroll and Sophia Foster-Dimino. She recently illustrated and designed a zine edition of Casey Plett’s short story ‘Lizzy & Annie.’ Annie draws an ongoing diary comics strip for ‘Comics Workbook’ called ‘Bleed-Throughs.’ She sings in the pop band See-Through Girls. Find out more about Annie’s work here.
DarkMatter
DarkMatter is a trans/national queer South Asian activist creative hivemind that likes to think about alternative post/colonial cyborg digestive futures && spit expletives about prison abolition and heteropatriarchy. You can read more about their work @DarkMatterRage and/or darkmatterrage.com.
Imogen Binnie
Imogen Binnie writes the zines The Fact That It’s Funny Doesn’t Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. She also writes a monthly column for Maximum Rocknroll magazine, and her work has been featured in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, as well as on prettyqueer.com, lambdaliterary.org and elsewhere. She writes about books at KeepYourBridgesBurning.com and her first novel, Nevada, was published in 2013. It is the recipient of a MOTHA Award and a finalist in the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
J Mase III
J Mase III is a black/trans/queer poet currently based in Brooklyn. The creator of the traveling performance event Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Movement, J Mase has shared his special brand of poetry on stages around the U.S. and UK. An organ donor, he is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around. In J Mase’s other life as an educator and activist, he has worked with thousands of community members and service providers across the country on the needs of LGBTQ youth and adults in spaces such as faith communities, elementary schools, domestic violence shelters, medical agencies, juvenile justice organizations, and foster care programs, among others. An advocate of really fierce scars and queering scripture, he currently spends his offstage time teaching poetry at various youth organizations. To find out more about J Mase III, feel free to stalk (follow) him on Twitter @jmaseiii, Facebook J Mase III, or track him on his website at jmaseiii.com.
KOKUMỌ
KOKUMỌ is the CEO/Founder of KOKUMOMEDIA INC., a Black transwoman run and operated multimedia production company that uses music, film, theatre, and literature to illuminate experiences of TGI people of color. For more information, please visit kokumedia.com.

2014 Allied Media Conference in Detroit
2014-06-19 - 2014-06-23 | RI
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.
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ABOUT THE AMC
CREATE
At 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.
CONNECT
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.
TRANSFORM
As 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.
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Browse the 2014 Tracks, Practice Spaces, and Network Gatherings that make up the AMC here!
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REGISTER TO ATTEND! ／／／　FIND HOUSING, RIDESHARES, CHILDCARE & ACCESSIBILITY HERE
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Allied Media Projects Network Principles
We are making an honest attempt to solve the most significant problems of our day.
We are building a network of people and organizations that are developing long-term solutions based on the immediate confrontation of our most pressing problems.
Wherever 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.
We emphasize our own power and legitimacy.
We presume our power, not our powerlessness.
We spend more time building than attacking.
We focus on strategies rather than issues.
The strongest solutions happen through the process, not in a moment at the end of the process.
The 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.
Place 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.
We encourage people to engage with their whole selves, not just with one part of their identity.
We begin by listening.

Philly Feminist Zine Fest 2014
2014-06-28 13:00 - 18:00 | Neighborhood House CCNH, 20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Join Metropolarity crew at the PFZF 2014 as we set up shop for all your sci-fi print/audio/atmospheric needs.
Mark your calendars! Philly Feminist Zine Fest will be held on June 28-29, 2014. The fest is split up into two days this year for tabling and workshops. On June 28, from 1PM-5PM. On the 29th, various workshops, skill shares, and discussion groups will happen in cooperation with radical spaces and organizations in Philly. (More details on that as they become available.)
Registration for Philly Feminist Zine Fest will open on 4/28 and close on 5/17. Half tables (4′) will be $10. (You can request more than one half space, but we can’t guarantee it. Space will depend on registrants available.) As always, PFZF is a juried event to make sure that female identified folks, queer/trans/genderqueer people, POC, and people with disabilities have priority access.
It will be held at Christ Church’s Community House. The location is in old city and is super close to lots of cool stuff! Neighborhood House is wheelchair accessible. If you have other accommodation needs or requests, please don’t be shy about letting us know.

Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo | RIPE 2014
2014-08-02 08:00 - 2014-08-03 17:00 | 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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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/
