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Wildseeds Black Futures Fest

Ibis Conservation Room 1401 Leonidas St, New Orleans, LA

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

PA Convention Center 1101 Arch St , Philadelphia, PA

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

Malportado Kids, SCRAAATCH, Shakai Mondai, MMGz + Abdul Kadir (.__. ) 6/7 @ LAVA SPACE

LAVA zone 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia

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 homesunday attire/timeline

$5

Metropolarity for New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas around SPECULATION

New Museum 235 Bowery Street, New York, NY

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 other writers, artists, and scholars who are addressing speculative realist philosophy and future-oriented speculative thought through fiction and design work. Say what.

$10

Sass n smash 2: SGNLS, Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air, Joyce Hatton, the films of April Anderson, Andromeda Sky more tba

Vox Populi 319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA

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

AUX Performance Space 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA

THE MYSTERIOUS CHROME CITY WILL APPEAR ONCE AGAIN...
CYBORG NOISE QUEER ELECTRO SABOTAGE AFROFUTURIST NO WAVE

FEATURING VERY SPECIAL GUEST VJUAN ALLURE
WITH PERFORMANCES & READINGS BY...

$10

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.3

The Art Church of West Philadelphia 5219 Webster St, Philadelphia, PA

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

$7 – $10

RBW5 / ROCKERS BBQ WEEKEND 5

LAVA zone 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia

ROCKERS IS A MONTHLY SHOW AND FESTIVAL THAT SHOWCASES BLACK/ MOOR / POC / QUEER / TRANS/ WOMYN ARTISTS THAT SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM

THE KOMINAS

REBELMATIC

KAHLIL ALI

SLAPDASH SOUNDSYSTEM

ANDROMEDA SKY

DJ HARAM
TRNSGNDR/VHS
2 SPECIAL GUESTS TBA
HOSTED BY ST. SKRIBBLY LACROIX

$5 – $10

RITUAL CAUSALITY 001

AUX Performance Space 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA

"Ritual...is a complex of words and actions...it is not the case that words are one thing and the rite another. The uttering of the words itself is a ritual." - Leach

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.

$7 – $10

NOWTOPIA

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University's URBN Annex 3401 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA

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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.

A SPECIAL INTERMEDIA EVENING WITH METROPOLARITY x COUNTERFEIT x MARTINPEEVES

AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY'S LEONARD PEARLSTEIN GALLERY

UP IN THE HALLS OF THE IVORY TOWERS

Philly Zine Fest

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

we may or may not be there. ¬_¬;;

Paper Jam Small Press Fest 4

The Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

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:

FREE