METROPOLARITY

CHR0M# CITY
2014-12-06 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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/

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 | PA
Pick up some of our zines, stickers, and pins with No Shame Distro at the fest!
All info here: http://chicagozinefest.org/?page_id=1218

A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T №.2 BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM RELEASE PARTY
2015-05-22 22:00 | Dahlak Paradise, 4708 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19143, United States
A ⌔T ◉ N E ℳ E N T
< ♏︎E T A ⌔ T ◎ N E >
A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
№.2
▲ ▼ ◼︎ ▼◀︎
◉ BLACK FUTURISM ✪ AFRIKAN RIDDEMS ▲
◎ SPACE BASS ◼︎ ANCESTRAL NOISE ►
◆ QUANTUM DYSTOPIA ◀︎ SOULDROMEDA ●
● ZULU NATION HEARTBEATS ◎ DARK MAGI BLUES ▼
◉ FREE JAZZ HOLOGRAMS ⌾ BLACK MASS POETRY
s o u n d s / w a v e s / w o r d m a g i c
black quantum theory and practice vol. 1 book release

Wildseeds Black Futures Fest
2015-05-28 15:00 - 2015-05-31 18:00 | Ibis Conservation Room, 1401 Leonidas St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
FESTIVAL WEBSITE: www.blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com
VOLUNTEERS: Email NOLAWildseeds@gmail.com if interested in being a volunteer 🙂
Save the date for the Wildseeds #BlackFuturesFest going on in New Orleans from May 28th-31st!
The Black Futures Fest is a celebration of the Black fantastic and will showcase the creative praxis of artists, writers, and cultural workers of color in New Orleans whose work engages around issues of Afrofuturism, Black science fiction, and the Black radical and speculative imagination—work exploring race, gender, class, social change, and the future of Black and Brown bodies and communities.
Open to the public, the weekend of festivities will feature film screenings, workshops, panel discussions, literary readings, and art and music by local artists and musicians. More than anything, the festival will provide a space to celebrate Black and Brown artists, writers, teachers, librarians, readers, and publishers engaged in shaping the future of Black people at the intersections of futurism, arts, and social change.
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
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A ⌔ T U N E ♍︎ E N T
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◉ 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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VISUALS BY MARTIN PEEVES
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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.
