NORTHERN LIBERTIES // ASTICKANDASTONE // FOREST KINGDOM // LONG VERA // EIGHTEEN // SEAN GLASS // VOYAGER

LAVA zone 4134 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, United States

--> BANDS: NORTHERN LIBERTIES "Dissonant riff-heavy freakouts...sullen gloom...melodic marches...spacey, psychedelic angular avant-punk...cosmic effects tripouts...bizarre feverdream lyrics...zoned-out vocals." -Crucial Blast A STICK AND A STONE "... a haunting, dark long night...back and forth mixed emotions...powerful sex...pancakes..." -Spice Rack * Night Vision Vinyl Release and Art Show + One year anniversary with drummer Dan + LAST SHOW […]

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The Laser Life Queer Sci-Fi Reading Series

A-Space Anarchist Community Center 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Triumphant return for fall!! The lifeblood! with the crew Alex Smith Shane Jenkins R. Phillips of the AfroFuturist Affair Ras Mashramani Maggie Eighteen and featured readers Katie Zall + 1 more TBA

LASER LIFE: Queer Sci-Fi Reading Series

A-Space Anarchist Community Center 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Queer Sci-Fi Reading Series From the files Baron Harkonen Solo-Margiela, District 98234. CLASSIFIED> For 100 years, LASER LIFE has provided the denizens of the hollowed out, Siberian dystopic husk formerly known as West Philly, with the one and secret voice. Fashioning antennaes from bones of dead CEOs and the rotting the planks of the Comcast […]

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Time Travel Convention | Pt. 2 – Activation * Recurrence Plot Book Release

Yell Gallery 2111 East Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Time Travel Convention | Pt. 2 - Activation is an opening reception for the exhibition and book release for AfroFuturist Affair Creator Rasheedah Phillips' experimental fiction novel, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales).

Free

LASER LIFE queer SF reading series

A-Space Anarchist Community Center 47th and Baltimore Avenues, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Your queer sci-fi reading, where members of the LGBT community express their visions, projections, wars, romances, speculations, fears, battles, and dreams in glorious, mystifying tales inspired by the griots of old, informing the future. It is called LASER LIFE.

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CANARIES group show at Cleopatra’s w/Maggie Eighteen

Cleopatra's 110 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Catch a reading performance by Maggie Eighteen, Monday, December 8th, as part of the Canaries group show at Cleopatra's in Brooklyn.

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.

What’s the Science? A Night of Poetic Game Play

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

$7 – $10

comma talk with Ras & Eighteen

The Physick House 321 S 4th St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Ras, Eighteen, maybe Alex too, will be on hand at this week's Comma Talk: Curated & hosted by Maryan Captan, comma talk is a discussion-based and audience interactive reading series featuring Philadelphia's emerging writers and poets. With a goal of exploring and discussing creative process, themes, and techniques used in the featured writers' work, Comma […]

TRANS & GENDER NONCONFORMING YOUTH WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES

Kelly Writer's House 3805 Locust Walk , Philadelphia, PA, United States

Kelly Writers House invites you to join a new
Writing Group for Trans
& Gender Non-Conforming Youth

This monthly writing group is open and free of charge for youth ages 14–22 who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming (GNC). The group will meet monthly at Kelly Writers House on the University of Pennsylvania campus on the second Saturday of the month, 12:00–2:00pm. No experience or expertise in writing is expected. Trans and GNC-identified guest writers will lead the group each month, and trans and GNC-identified facilitators will attend and support all monthly sessions. Lunch will be provided, as well as SEPTA tokens for transportation to and from the group. Come join us!

FREE

Tomorrow Never Happens Semester Launch Party

Samek Gallery 3rd Floor, Elaine Langone Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States

COME GET YOUR SPECULATIVE VISION STRONG WITH ALEX & EIGHTEEN, READING AT THE LAUNCH JAWN 4 YOU~ Tomorrow Never Happens Semester Launch Party Friday, September 16, 7pm Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center This exhibition explores queer futurity and the aesthetics of utopia. From marriage equality, to “bathroom bills,” to the massacre in Orlando, […]

FREE

JINXED Science Fiction Reading

👽A science-fiction reading at Jinxed West Philly location featuring @metropolarity co-founders Alex Smith and M Eighteen Téllez, as well as Sarah Sawyers-Lovett and Moose Lane!

free