The Afrofuturism Conference is back!
Last year’s conference created a space in which people could be in conversation with one another in dissecting the concept of Afrofuturism and designing new narratives to empower the African Diaspora.
This year, we are excited to host what will be an inspiring 3-day event entitled AfroFuturism: #BlackisViral. We plan to continue the conversation and bring to light the virality of blackness by hacking the cultural divide with a cadre of makers, thinkers, artists, scholars and innovators to explore the matrix of Afrofuturism as a narrative for liberation. This will be done through a series of art happenings, performances, lectures, panels, workshops, theater pieces, film music, scholarly works, and community events, etc.
We will be covering topics including and not limited to:
-Online Black Subcultures
-Futures of Black Movement Making
-Environmental Justice
-REimagining Identity
-HoodFuture(s)
-Decolonizing
-The State of Black Cinema Post #OscarsSoWhite
-Conjuring Black Futures
-Sex Work and Liberation
-Black Self Love & Mindful Health Practices
-Contemporary Art/Music and Film Screenings
-Intergenerational Community Building
-Queering the f* out of this conference
-Hacking for the Future
-Speaking in Black Tongues – Linguistics as a Site of Appropriation
-Commodification of Black Image in The Media
-Black Hyper Visibility Online
Etc!
The conference will be free and open to the public. To help offset the cost of the conference, there is a suggested donation of $5-$25 to attend the conference. However, no one will be turned away!
DUE TO CAPACITY ALL EVENTS WILL BE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED WITH RSVP !