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SUMMARY:AFROFUTURES_UK Conference & Exhibition Weekend
DESCRIPTION:AfroFutures_UK is a weekend event celebrating the intersection of futurism and the black experience. Featuring artists\, academics\, and activists\, they aim to promote Afrofuturistic endeavours in the arts and technology. Metropolarity’s own Rasheedah Phillips\, founder of the AfroFuturist Affair and Black Quantum Futurism collective\, will be there as one of several excellent guest speakers. \n\nAfroFutures_UK is a new collective made up of artists\, writers\, activists and academics interested in exploring the future black experience through multi-media and disruptive technologies. \nOur seminal event is a Conference//Exhibition where we will be using themes and inspiration from Afrofuturism to probe and dissect our visions of the future\, from the sociological to the scientific. We aim to bring together a range of theoretical discourse that touch on this aspect\, from womanism/black feminism\, queer theory to liberation theology and afrocentric philosophy. \nThere will be a series of talks during the day as well as film screenings\, performances and practical workshops. The current list of confirmed speakers and workshop leaders can be found here. You can follow us on Twitter @AfroFutures_UK
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/afrofutures_uk/
LOCATION:MAD LAB Manchester Digital Laboratory\, 36-40 Edge Street \, Manchester\, M4 1HN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Panels & Expos,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Afrofuturism NOW!
DESCRIPTION:The AfroFuturist Affair/Black Quantum Futurism will be performing\, presenting\, and guest curating at the AFROFUTURISM NOW! Festival \nThe avant-garde is black! Afrofuturism is a cultural movement that has been existing for a couple of decades in America\, Europe and Africa. Some prominent Afrofuturists are Sun Ra\, George Clinton\, Jeff Mills and Science Fiction writer Octavia Butler. Today\, there’s a new wave of Afrofuturist writers\, performers\, visual artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, designers\, bloggers\, activists. Contemporary Afrofuturists – Rasheedah Phillips\, Ytasha Womack\, King Britt and many others – fuse science fiction imagination with avant-garde & DIY culture while reflecting black diaspora. \nFrom 14th to 17th October\, WORM will celebrate contemporary Afrofuturism with the festival “Afrofuturism Now!”. In preparation of this event\, our program will look back at the roots of this super-interesting cultural movement\, with an extensive film program and a lecture in June.
URL:https://metropolarity.net/event/1845/
LOCATION:WORM\, Boomgaardsstraat 71\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences,Music Shows,Panels & Expos,Readings & Performances,Some Other Jawns
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