Anthony Romero x Metropolarity present ERASURE
2015-01-31 19:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | 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/

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 | RI
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
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◉ 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.
CHECK THIS PAGE REGULARLY FOR EVENT UPDATES OR VISIT www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com!

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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Malportado Kids, SCRAAATCH, Shakai Mondai, MMGz + Abdul Kadir (.__. ) 6/7 @ LAVA SPACE
2015-06-07 08:00 | LAVA zone, 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, 19104, United States
Malportado Kids (pvd)
https://malportadokids.bandcamp.com/
SCRAAATCH (phl via dc)
https://soundcloud.com/scraaatch
Shakai Mondai (phl)
https://soundcloud.com/shakaimondai
Moor Mother Goddess + Abdul Kadir (phl)
http://ow.ly/MVFla
MAGUS MONK
birthday eighteen minus sci-fi short opener
https://allthatsleft.bandcamp.com/
$5 or w/e
$25 if ur bringing colonial gaze (limited space @ venue)
quench ur thirst at home
sunday attire/timeline

Metropolarity for New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas around SPECULATION
2015-06-14 13:00 - 15:00 | New Museum, 235 Bowery Street, New York, NY, 10002, United States
Join Metropolarity on a Sunday afternoon at New York’s NEW MUSEUM for their public seminar series, this season themed SPECULATION. Metropolarity will be in dialogue with New School scholars/designers/media theorists Ed Keller and Orit Halpern, addressing speculative realist philosophy and future-oriented speculative thought through fiction and design work. Say what.
This focus on sustained research and ideas in development stimulated the establishment of the Seminar series, in which small groups of multidisciplinary thinkers gather over a three-month period to consider the Education Department’s Seasonal thematic, with pressing conversations related to art and the expanded art context examined in relation to broader issues in society. Entitled New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas, the series directly references the Museum’s history of “collecting” ideas, rather than art objects. The goal of the Seminars is to provide a platform for discussing, debating, and enacting ideas as they emerge, in real time, and to develop scholarship or other forms of joint creative production relating to art’s place in culture. The Seminars utilize some recognizable graduate-level and reading-group pedagogical strategies, such as syllabi and weekly closed, peer-led reading sessions, but are distinguished by their context within the contemporary art museum. In addition to the weekly sessions, there is institutional support for some form of group production to grow out of the shared course of study (conferences, performance residencies, online publications, Resource Center exhibitions, etc.). A group of approximately fifteen participants from various backgrounds (including artists, dancers, curators, critics, educators, and scholars, but also those with specialties not directly art-related) constitute each Seminar group, along with R&D Season artists in residence and New Museum Education Department staff members who work on the topic. Unique among museums, the Seminar truly functions as a “think tank” within a programming and exhibitionary institution, fostering new ideas and work between outside and intra-institutional participants (in the past, New Museum curators, editors, researchers, and educators have also applied).

Sass n smash 2: SGNLS, Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air, Joyce Hatton, the films of April Anderson, Andromeda Sky more tba
2015-06-27 19:00 | Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Hello! Your new friends at ANDROMEDA SKY (Danni, Leah, and Alex) would like to welcome you to our debut ritual! Yes, our “band” is embarking on our first journey and we’d like for you to attend! This is it!
**SGNLS**
cosmic space time mind tunnels, alternative universes, dystopio-future***a furious mesh-mash of tangled wires, dislodge connections***if Orwell and Moroder did compositions for the Sex Pistols
http://www.toomodernworld.com/
**Good Night Stars Good Night Air**
real transient dreams, space star gazing planetarium psychedelia**if wind swept wisps made dance music remixes for Tangerine Dream
**Andromeda Sky**
debut outing for stellar witches**confusing transcendental noise and shambolic tectonics**if Massive Attack and Starhawk went to church with Sonic Youth
**Teenage Bigfoot**
all gnarled out wolf-mangle of urban sea pirates**skateboard shanties for the spike and claw sects
Teenagebigfoot.bandcamp.com
**Joyce Hatton**
interdimensional myriad mind-spaces fluctuating in heartbeat time**casual dream poet , primordial goddess of the universe
**April Anderson**
the eye
“The earth owes me nothing. I owe the earth”– Vinnie Paz

CHROME CITY THE 3RD: BANJEE FT VJUAN ALLURE
2015-08-08 19:00 - 23:00 | AUX Performance Space, 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
THE MYSTERIOUS CHROME CITY WILL APPEAR ONCE AGAIN…
CYBORG NOISE QUEER ELECTRO SABOTAGE AFROFUTURIST NO WAVE
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST VJUAN ALLURE originator of the HA remix vogue trax u know n love
WITH READINGS BY Metropolarity
AND PERFORMANCES FROM
Icon Ebony Fierce
Mr. Manic
King Azaz
Andromeda Sky
John Morrison
VISUALS BY CHASKA SOFIA
more tba
BANJEE
WHAT IS CHROME CITY ABOUT? WATCH FROM 13:40-13:54 AND YOU’LL KNOW. IT’S EVERYTHING.

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.3
2015-08-14 20:00 | The Art Church of West Philadelphia, 5219 Webster St, 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
№.3
▲ ▼ ◼︎ ▼◀︎
◉ BLACK FUTURISM ✪ AFRIKAN RIDDEMS ▲
◎ SPACE BASS ◼︎ ANCESTRAL NOISE ►
◆ QUANTUM DYSTOPIA ◀︎ SOULDROMEDA ●
● ZULU NATION HEARTBEATS ◎ DARK MAGI BLUES ▼
◉ FREE JAZZ HOLOGRAMS ⌾
sound//waves
H P R I Z M
https://hprizm.bandcamp.com/
L I L D A V E
https://soundcloud.com/lildave
E X A KT L Y (DC)
https://soundcloud.com/cmpvtr-clvb
MOM² (DC)
MIND OVER MATTER MUSIC OVER MIND
https://soundcloud.com/bushmeat
ORGANIX TRIO (DC)
M M G Z
moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com
ANLI MARS
Special guests tba
Projections by Black Quantum Futurism
+++PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS GO TO HELP SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
ROCKERS BBQ WEEKEND 2015
This event is apart of Rockers BBQ Weekend #RBW5 A 3 day diy festival based in Philadelphia showcasing marginalized artists and artist that create work that speaks out against injustice.
DAY #2 – AUGUST 15TH – ROCKERS – LAVA SPACE
https://www.facebook.com/events/410789349104259/
DAY #3 – AUGUST 16TH – RITUAL CAUSALITY – AUX VOX POPULI
https://www.facebook.com/events/1447678018874191/

RBW5 / ROCKERS BBQ WEEKEND 5
2015-08-15 19:00 | LAVA zone, 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, 19104, United States
ROCKERS! —- AUGUST 15TH ————– LAVA SPACE
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THE KOMINAS
REBELMATIC
KAHLIL ALI
SLAPDASH SOUNDSYSTEM
ANDROMEDA SKY
DJ HARAM
TRNSGNDR/VHS
2 SPECIAL GUESTS TBA
HOSTED BY ST. SKRIBBLY LACROIX
WE WILL HAVE BBQ FOOD & SODA POP ON DECK
BRING BAKED GOODS LIKE CAKE & MORE CAKE
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THE FEST TURNS 5 YEARS THIS AUGUST
WE WILL ALSO BE CELEBRATING 10+ YEARS
OF DOING ROCKERS IN PHILLY.
DAY #1 – AUGUST 14TH – ATONEMENT / ATUNEMENT – THE ART CHURCH
https://www.facebook.com/events/1112257575456155/
DAY #2 – AUGUST 15TH – ROCKERS – LAVA SPACE
https://www.facebook.com/events/410789349104259/
DAY #3 – AUGUST 16TH – RITUAL CAUSALITY – AUX VOX POPULI
https://www.facebook.com/events/1447678018874191/
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING OR VENDING OR WHATEVER EMAIL SDFSBOOKING@GMAIL.COM
ROCKERS IS A MONTHLY SHOW AND FESTIVAL THAT SHOWCASES BLACK/ MOOR / POC / QUEER / TRANS/ WOMYN ARTISTS THAT SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM

RITUAL CAUSALITY 001
2015-08-16 18:00 - 20:00 | AUX Performance Space, 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Black Quantum Futurism presents its first 2-hour gallery performance RITUAL CAUSALITY 001 featuring ancient anthropological finds, African/Black Diasporic time and memory rituals, and live sound experiments. Experience BQF theorists discovering the first computer in 100bc, lecturing on Sun Ra synchronicities, and Quantum Mapping our collective futures. RITUAL CAUSALITY 001 is a retrocausal retrospective starting with the latest BQF work, ANTI-KY-THE/RA, then spiraling backwards to the beginning with the NonLocality series. BQF’s first exhibition of works will be a multimedia experience that will include dance, sound, projections and speculative literary performances.
Black Quantum Futurism is inspired by afrofuturism, quantum physics, and African traditions of spatial-temporal consciousness. BQF weaves speculative reality with ritual, image and sound to present innovative works that offer practical techniques for escaping time loops, oppression vortexes, and the digital matrix.
BQF Collective is an artistic and literary collaboration between Camae Defstar (Rockers!; MMGZ) and Rasheedah Phillips (The AfroFuturist Affair; Metropolarity) which explores the intersections of futurism, literature, art, sound, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalized communities. Forming in Summer 2014, the collective has created a number of community-based events, experimental music project, several zines, and an anthology of experimental essays called “Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice Vol. 1,” which includes visions from other futurist writers and visionaries. www.blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com /www.blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com
Day #3 Rockers Bbq Weekend #RBW5
$7-10 requested donation
Cash bar
Light refreshments
Zines/books/art for sale
This event is apart of Rockers BBQ Weekend #RBW5 A 3 day diy festival based in Philadelphia showcasing marginalized artists and artist that create work that speaks out against injustice.
DAY #1 – AUGUST 14TH – ATONEMENT / ATUNEMENT – THE ART CHURCH
https://www.facebook.com/events/1112257575456155/
DAY #2 – AUGUST 15TH – ROCKERS – LAVA SPACE
https://www.facebook.com/events/410789349104259/

NOWTOPIA
2015-08-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University’s URBN Annex, 3401 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
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Nowtopia is a place, an existence, a conciousness. Nowtopia is a constantly moving, intricate journey, a swim through nebula, the wet starstuff of human birth.
While Nowtopia doesn’t have a corporeal place to call home, it exists nonetheless as tachyon, flitting through our collective conscious as a memory, a movement or as hope. On August 28, we are presenting Nowtopia as an orbital space-station, a vector and nexus point where star-mapping, healing, and flux converge to create warps to other realms.
Organized by Chrome City denizens, conceived at the orbital worshipping point Laser Life, and realized through collective means via Metropolarity, Nowtopia is the blueprint vision visor, the conduit, the space place where time exists interdimensionally, never moving — artists exists like super-heroes as vibratory manifestations, as stories.
Each artist will set up in a different space, performing in a flowing “mix”, trans-imposing visual and kinetic imagery in accompaniment to their sounds. Dancers and movement mages will be present throughout the space. The idea is to provide a temporary autonomous zone, through art and music, with a nod towards super-hero bases, sci-fi academies and temporally autonomous non-localities.
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FEATURING READINGS BY METROPOLARITY
Ras Mashramani
Rasheedah Phillips
Alex Smith
Magus Eighteen
(effaced from facebook, find em here:
https://instagram.com/cyborgmemoirs/)
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SOUNDSCAPES BY COUNTERFEIT
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Philly Zine Fest
2015-08-30 12:00 - 17:00 | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
we may or may not be there.

Paper Jam Small Press Fest 4
2015-09-05 12:00 - 18:30 | The Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, United States
The fourth installment of Paper Jam, a twice-annual and FREE small press / mini-comic / ‘zine fair held at the Silent Barn on Saturday, September 5th, 2015 and hosted by the Silent Barn’s own Ditko! ‘Zine Library.
Paper Jam brings together a selection of local up and coming small press artists and cross pollinates their work with the art and music scene of the Silent Barn. Paper Jam is fully curated by a regularly rotating crew including: Robin Enrico, G.W. Duncanson, Megan Manowitz, Liz Pelly, and Ølivia Fox
Exhibitors:
1.) Jeanette Wall
http://miscreantrecords.com/tag/zine/
2.) Rumi Hara
http://www.rumihara.com/comics.html
3.) Matt Crabe
http://mattcrabe.storenvy.com/
4.) Tom Toye
http://illogicalcomicsestate.tumblr.com/
5.) Esther White
http://estherswhite.net/
6.) Metropolarity (Philly)
http://metropolarity.net/crew/
7.) The AfroFuturist Affair (Philly)
http://www.afrofuturistaffair.com/
8.) Lambey Press
http://lambeypress.com/about/
9.) The Black Lesbian DIY Fest
https://blacklesbiansdiyfest.wordpress.com/
10.) Annie Mok (Philly)
http://heyanniemok.tumblr.com/
11.) Cathy G. Johnson (Providence)
http://cathyboy.tumblr.com/
12.) Robert Richburg
http://robertrichburgart.tumblr.com/
13.) O. Horvath (Providence)
http://queenofswordsinverted.tumblr.com/
14.) Julian Sh333p
https://www.facebook.com/Sh333p.graphix
15.) Allyssa Yohanna
http://www.allyssayohana.com/
16.) Hag Collective
http://hagcollective.tumblr.com/
17.) David Beyers (Boats) / Darren Shekailo
http://davidisboats.tumblr.com/
18.) Ray Ray Books
http://rayraybooks.com/
19.) JR Zuckerberg
http://floofyslandofwonder.tumblr.com/
20.) Ilana Blady
http://ilanablady.com/
21.) Elvis Bakaitis
https://elvis007.wordpress.com/
22.) Alex Krokus
http://alexkrokus.com/
23.) Tycho Horan
http://www.tychohoran.com/
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Performances in the 603^ Space
Including:
Black Quantum Futurism
https://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com/
Readings from:
Metropolarity
&
NYC Zine Community
+MORE TBA+
See also: Silent Barn’s Safer Spaces policy http://silentbarn.org/about/saferspaces

Geekadelphia Presents: The Future of Philly Sci-Fi and Fantasy @ The Free Library
2015-09-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library | Skyline Room – 4th Floor, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Philadelphia has been a nexus for science fiction and fantasy writers and fans for longer than many of us can remember. Numerous authors have made their homes in Philadelphia and produced some of the best works speculative fiction has to offer. The first Hugo Award was given out here. Isaac Asimov lived here. SF grandmaster Samuel R. Delany taught at Temple. But where is Philadelphia Sci-Fi and Fantasy heading? On September 9 at 7:00pm, in the beautiful Skyline Room of the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, you’ll have the chance to learn about the past, present, and future of sci-fi and fantasy in Philadelphia.
Led by notable science thriller author Jon McGoran, five of our best local authors will delve into topics like the founding of the Hugo Awards, the recent resurgence of fantasy on TV, how the fast-paced tech industry influences fiction, and so much more! After the main discussion, there will be time for the you, the lovely audience, to ask any questions you would like.
After the panel and Q&A are finished, the night is still not over! Big Blue Marble Bookstore will be on site selling each of the author’s newest books. You’ll have plenty of time to chat with your favorite authors and get your copies signed.
Below you’ll find a bit more about our excellent panelists and moderator for the night:
Fran Wilde is an author and technology consultant. Her first novel, Updraft, is out now. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Asimov’s, Nature, Tor.com, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her interview series Cooking the Books–about the intersection between food and fiction–has appeared at Strange Horizons, and Tor.com.
Gregory Frost is the author of novels including the Shadowbridge series (Del Rey) and Fitcher’s Brides (Tor). His short stories have appeared most recently in Asimov’s, Supernatural Noir (Ellen Datlow, ed.) and Apex Magazine. He’s director of the fiction writing workshop at Swarthmore College.
Michael Swanwick has won five Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award in his long career of science fiction. He is the author of Dancing with Bears and the short story collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow. He has also made contributions science fiction field with critical essays as well as a biography of Hope Mirrlees.
Rasheedah Phillips is a public interest attorney, author, mother, Afrofuturist, and Aries living and working out of Philadelphia. She is also the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, and a founding member of Metropolarity Spec Fic Collective. She recently independently published her first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales), and an anthology of experimental essays from Black visionary writers called Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice Vol I. Phillips was recently a 2015 artist-in-residence with West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. This fall she will be presenting at the Afrofutures UK Unconference, and performing, presenting, and guest curating at the AFROFUTURISM NOW! Festival in Amsterdam. Stay up to date and subscribe to the Future Light Cone newsletter.
Siobhan Carroll is an Assistant Professor at University of Deleware who specializes in British literature from 1750-1850 – the turbulent historical period called the “Romantic Century” – and in modern science fiction and fantasy. She is interested in the ways that literature has shaped our understanding of empire, community, and the natural world. Her book, An Empire of Air and Water, is out now.
Stephanie Feldman grew up in Philadelphia and studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania and then Barnard College. Her debut novel, The Angel of Losses, is winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. It was included in best-of-the-year lists from the Washington Post, Book Riot, and Locus Magazine.
Jon McGoran is the author of the biotech thrillers Drift and Deadout, from Forge Books. Writing as D. H. Dublin, he is the author of the forensic crime thrillers Freezer Burn, Blood Poison, and Body Trace, from Penguin Books. His short fiction, nonfiction and satire have appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies. He is a founding member of the Philadelphia Liars Club, a group of published authors dedicated to promotion, networking, and service work.
Come out and support your local authors, library, and this little ol’ geeky blog!
Geekadelphia Presents: The Future of Philly Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Wednesday September 9 at 7:00pm
@ The Free Library of Philadelphia Central Branch 4th Floor, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Admission is totally FREE and you should RSVP to the Facebook Event!

Ferguson is the Future Symposium: Speculative Arts & Social Justice
2015-09-14 08:00 - 18:00 | RI
“Ferguson is the Future”:
Incubating Alternative Worlds Through Arts, Activism, and Scholarship
What stories about power, difference, and belonging fuel the social crises we face today? How does visionary fiction offer us models for creating new possible worlds? Can the combined insights and interventions of artists, activists, and scholars plot a different course forward? “Ferguson is the Future” is part of an ongoing collaboration to imagine and create alternative worlds that are more just and representative of humanity.
This symposium brings together a multigenerational panel of speculative fiction writers, activists, filmmakers, academics, and artists to discuss the historical, present-and-future manifestations of a social reality we wish to create and thrive in. As we work to shape change, we will use this space as an incubator and laboratory to grow new visions of the worlds we want to exist. Please join us for a day-long celebration and investigation to explore these timely issues.
Major support for the symposium was provided by a grant of the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Council of the Humanities and a grant of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Additional Sponsors:
Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, Princeton Public Library, Princeton Department of English, Princeton Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Princeton Department of African American Studies.
A LIVESTREAM FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE WATCHED HERE

CO-ORGANIZERS
MOYA BAILEY
RUHA BENJAMIN
AYANA A. H. JAMIESON, Ph.D.
GUEST SPEAKERS
REYNALDO ANDERSON
STEVEN BARNES
LISA BOLEKAJA
ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN
ERIN CHRISTOVALE
DJ LYNNÉE DENISE
M. ASLI DUKAN
TANANARIVE DUE
JOHNETTA ELZIE
NETTRICE GASKINS
AMIR GEORGE
ANDREA HAIRSTON
NALO HOPKINSON
WALIDAH IMARISHA
JOHN JENNINGS
DENNIS LEROY KANGALEE
COLORED GIRLS HUSTLE
SORAYA JEAN-LOUS McELROY
DERAY_MCKESSON
ALONDRA NELSON
NNEDI OKORAFOR
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER
BRITTANY N. PACKNETT
NUMA PERRIER
OUR OWN RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS
SOFIA SAMATAR
DOROTHY ROBERTS
NISI SHAWL
BE STEADWELL

PHILA•LALIA small press // hand made book & art fair
2015-09-17 12:00 - 2015-09-19 18:00 | Tyler School of Art, 2001 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
PHILALALIA is a three-day small press/hand made book and art fair that brings together poets, publishers, zine makers, book artists, printmakers, comics artists & creative enthusiasts in a vibrant arts venue to showcase & sell their work.
PHILALALIA 2015 will take place Thursday-Saturday, September 17-19, from 12-6pm. The fair & all on-site events will be held at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2001 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA.
In addition to the book fair, there will be readings and performances, discussions & panels, and workshops and receptions throughout the day, as well as nighttime off-site events in different venues throughout the city. Click here for schedule information.
The fair and all related events are FREE to attend & open to the public.
