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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 SPECULATIVE ABYSS: A spec-fic reading with Elwin Cotman & Alex Smith

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

ELWIN COTMAN's work evokes the strangeness simmering underneath the floorboards of New Orleans speakeasys; the sort of melancholy soaked into the floorboards of a Carolina porch in misty May. Weaving through the murkier, funnier parts of American dreams, stopping right at the horizon of nightmare and flat-out hilarious, Cotman delivers a well needed shock to […]

Annie Mok debuts SCREENTESTS w/the crew

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

West Philly-based cartoonist Annie Mok reads from Screentests, her most fully-realized work to date. Annie’s comics are by turns quiet, raucous, funny, and sad, and always clear-eyed and nuanced. “These stories, which could be incredibly heartbreaking with no relief, instead give the reader hope.” - Mey Rude, Autostraddle She’s joined by the incredible creators Ras […]

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. 1 – Preparation

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

The Time Travel Convention is an exhibition that explores time travel as a practical activity – something that does not necessarily require a machine, an advanced degree, or any other privileges. Using afrofuturism and the speculative as lenses, the exhibition will feature time travel devices and objects from creators who use tools such as memory, dreams, imagination, manipulation of language and perception, light, and music to craft their temporal devices.

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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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TRAVELERS a speculative reading

Revolving Bookcase 1236 S. 53rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

an evening for speculative reading
with
elwin cotman
rasheedah phillips
oki sogumi

at revolving bookcase in southwest philly
1236 S. 53rd Street, 19143

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 […]

STREET THEORY RETURNS: OPEN ACCESS SOCIAL CRITICISM OPEN MIC NIGHT

COMMUNITY POTLUCK & OPEN ACCESS SOCIAL CRITICISM OPEN MIC NIGHT DETAILS TBA THE LAST ONE: Metropolarity presents a night of community building and sharing. We seek social criticism from the community--performance art, blog rants, monologues, critical sci-fi, thesis excerpts, protest songs--whatever. As long as it explores and dissects the world we live in today. We […]

Community Futures Lab Opening Reception

Community Futures Lab 2204 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Black Quantum Futurism/ The AfroFuturist Affair celebrate the opening of our new space COMMUNITY FUTURES LAB!

Over the next year, Black Quantum Futurism will be building and enacting a quantum time capsule, exploring oral histories/futures, preservation, displacement, and alternative temporalities within the North Philadelphia community known as Sharswood/Blumberg. “Community Futurisms” will document the redevelopment of Sharswood/Blumberg, through a multidisciplinary community art project that explores the intersections of futurism, literature, visual remixing, sound, and activism as art.

Join us on June 18, 2016 as we open the COMMUNITY FUTURES LAB, which will function as a resource library, community studio and gallery, workshop space, story recording booth, thinktank, experimental space and more.

ALL AGES
Light refreshments
Soundscapes + Projections by BQF
konja sound by Sirius JuJu
reading by Moor Mother
fly life sounds by Alexoteric

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

LASER LIFE presents Style of Attack

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

laser life queer sci-fi reading

***this is the psycho-social, queer liberatory, autonomous, afro-curatorial, queer propulsed pulse, electro light light beam, sigil sub-conscious, navigatory cosmic trance dance on the techno-veldt... this is STYLE OF ATTACK***

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