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time travelling instructions + portal stone
METROPOLARITY IS VERY EXCITED TO SUBMIT TO THIS UPCOMING MULTIGENERATIONAL MAGIC SCI-FI ART SHOW. WE ARE BRINGING THE CRITICAL MEDIA SKILLZ FROM OUR MANY POINTS IN SPACETIME. FOR NOW, LOOK AT WHAT THESE KIDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN UP TO
IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED: A “sci-fi’ed reimagining of education” | METROPOLARITY
In light of one of the largest school closings in American history, closings that disproportionately affect poor children of color, Brick & Mortar: A Sci-Fi’ed Imagining of Education creates a multimedia sci-fi art exhibit imagining the future of education in Philadelphia, featuring submissions from the students themselves. Metropolarity.net offers a recap of the gallery opening.
A one page zine containing radical fiction by Numar Ahmed, a member of the Philly Student Union
What You Should Know About the Philly Student Walkout | The Nation
Running a massive deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars, Philadelphia’s school system is planning to eliminate all sports, extracurricular activities, counselors and libraries—beyond which, for schools eviscerated by austerity politics, there’s not much left to lose. At noon today, May 17, thousands of students are expected to walk out of class and flood downtown. [Afrofuturist Affair: The walkout happened, and it was peaceful, well-organized, and productive].
“It’s time that the City Council and Governor Corbett started listening to students,” says Sharron Snyder, a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School and an organizer with the Philadelphia Student Union. “If they spent even one day in my school, they would know that already we don’t have the right resources to succeed.”
Walkout organizers state, “We are willing to break the stereotypes and expectations of urban youth, and are taking this opportunity to tell the world that urban school districts deserve funding, and it is your responsibility under the Commonwealth Charter to provide us with more than a ‘bare bones education.’”
Philly
Moor Mother Goddess Presents Mama’s Gun: A New Moon Sirius
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The Official Afterparty for the Philly Premiere of AfroPunk’s “The Triptych” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on June 12, 2013
Supported by local, women-led Philadelphia businesses/organizations
MYTHMEDIA:21 STUDIOS/ROCKER’S CLOSET/ PHILADELPHIA PRINTWORKS/RAW FRUIT LLC /AFROFUTURIST AFFAIR
East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention
12th Annual ECBACC Convention - an annual gathering of comic book artists, writers, their fans and retailers who are interested in discussing, buying and selling comic books, sci-fi, action figures and related material by and / or about Black superheroes / super-powered characters / adventures
AfriCoz Contest - the first costume and cosplay contest celebrating characters of African descent in comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and film
Synergy Reading Workshop facilitated by Metropolarity.net member and Laser Life founder Alex Smith
2013 Glyph Comic Awards - honoring and recognizing those creators making great contributions to the African image in graphic novels, comic strips and comic books
ECBACC S.T.A.R.S (Storytelling That Advances Reading Skills) - a program held at the Free Library of Philadelphia to address the literacy skills of young people by using interactive comic book themed exercises that promote reading as fun and exciting
Yo Philly!
This weekend! Programming schedule here:
We are kicking off a new monthly series starting June 12th at ORTLIEBS called MAMAS GUN featuring African/jazz/Hiphop/nowave
EVERY 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Performing Live
Moor Mother Goddess
www.soundcloud.com/moor-goddess
www.soundcloud.com/camaedefstar
Moor Mother Goddess ZINE Release
Slapdash soundsystem
http://www.reverbnation.com/slapdashsoundsystem
Dsck ( mem of Baptist Preachers)
www.myspace.com/dsck45
Alexia Gold (guest vocalist)
http://www.reverbnation.com/goldenlover
Alien architect (guest drummer)
www.bandcamp.com/alienarchitect
Nate Kuszaj (guest synth player)
nate.kuszaj@facebook.com
And special guests
Joe Jordan
Dj Ognk
www.soundcloud.com/dugdephonate
Hosted by Joe Jordan & Jaq Masters
www.joejordanrocks.com
jinglehiemerschmidt@facebook.com
$5 free before 10
Supported by local Philadelphia business/ organizations
ROCKERS CLOSET/ PHILADELPHIA PRINTWORKS/ RAW FRIUT LLC /AFROFUTURIST AFFAIR
www.rockerscloset.com
www.myrawfruit.com
www.philadelphiaprintworks.com
www.afrofuturistaffair.com
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Brick & Mortar: A Sci-Fi’ed Imagining of Education
In light of the Philly School District’s announcement to close 23 schools this year and chop many more into achievement networks to be managed by public and private groups, we ask:
What will our education system look like in 5 years? In 10? 15? 20+?
What will it be like to be a student in the future? A parent? An educator? What will our city be like as these changes are implemented?
Brick and Mortar Arts is calling on creative visionaries to respond to these questions for an exhibition of sci-fi themed art and performance pieces. Submit your drawings, poems, paintings, collages, skits, maps, musical pieces, sound-scapes, fabric & fiber pieces, prints, sculptures and more that imagine what a future Philly looks like. Please interpret this broadly, we are looking for the utopian, dystopian and everything in-between.
If you are interested in submitting work, please email brickandmortararts@gmail.com and tell us the medium you plan to work in. Questions are welcome too! Deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 4, 2013. Art will be hung at The Soapbox, Philadelphia’s Independent Publishing Center. Opening night of the exhibition will be Friday, May 17, 2013.
Stay tuned to hear about workshops and art-making days leading up to the deadline!
The Spring Episode of Laser Life Arrives into the Future of Next Friday, April 26, 2013 at A-Space Anarchist Community Center in West Philly
The Laser Life is a reading series dedicated to giving voice to the swirl of diversity that exists in the known and unknown universe, LASER LIFE is a queer empowered reading series that serves as a gateway to the dreaming. At its core, it’s a reading of science and speculative fiction and fantasy, with the intensity of a sweaty, West Philly poetry slam on mind-altering, homemade drugs.
Channeling Octavia Butler, Sam Delaney and the dollar bin at the comic book shop, the assembled are some of the most talented writers, both published and unpublished, in the Philadelphia area. As empires fall and our old planet crumbles, these writers are opening portals to theirs—braver, newer and out of this world.
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R.Phillips of The AfroFuturist Affair and Metropolarity.net will be featured at the LASER LIFE next, reading a tale of science-possibility called “The Bracelet,” among Master Sci-Fi RealityTellers Alex Smith (creator of Laser Life), Maggie Eighteen, Ras Mashramani, Shane Jenkins, and special guest POLYMER MONOCHROME
Nichelle Nichols - On Blaxploitation and Breaking Barriers (by reelblack)
From the Reelblack vault comes this exclusive clip of actress/singer/author NICHELLE NICHOLS from the press room at the 2008 EAST COAST BLACK AGE OF COMICS CONVENTION in Philadelphia, PA. Journalist RAYMOND TYLER asks Ms. Nichols about working in film during the Blaxploitation era and the role her character LT. UHURA played in advancing the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
THE BLACK TRIBBLES PRESENTS: OCTAVIA CITY
The Black Tribbles Radio show is CALLING ALL WRITERS AND STORYTELLERS OF BLACK SCI-FI & AFROFUTURISM for OCTAVIA CITY, original tales of Afrofuturism, w/ special guest Rasheedah Phillips of The AfroFuturist Affair! You are invited to share your stories with the world on Thursday, April 25th, 2013 from 8-11pm LIVE on the BLACK TRIBBLES radio show w/ co-host Gabriel Bryant of Stepping Into Tomorrow on Gtown Radio. Email blacktribbles@gmail.com if you would like to participate in this very special event (no matter where in the multiverse/universe/earth/sea you may be)!
The Dangerous Loom presents SCI-FI/Genre writers’ workshop: Incorporating Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Sci-Fi Writing
The spectre of “othering” people who aren’t straight, white and male is a phenomenon that has long been looming over sci-fi and genre fiction. Most of us who aren’t straight, white and male (and our allies) hate this. So, this is a workshop geared at writers (novices and experts alike) who wish to create well-rounded characters, to explore vast regions of our imaginations we have long neglected, to break out of the typical ruts genre writing has carved for itself.
Facilitated by Author Alex Smith (Creator of Laser Life and founding member of Metropolarity.net 215 Spec Fic Collective)
@ A-SPace Anarchist Community Center
April 8, 15, and 22
theyarebirds@gmail.com
East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention
12th Annual ECBACC Convention - an annual gathering of comic book artists, writers, their fans and retailers who are interested in discussing, buying and selling comic books, sci-fi, action figures and related material by and / or about Black superheroes / super-powered characters / adventures
AfriCoz Contest - the first costume and cosplay contest celebrating characters of African descent in comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and film
Synergy Reading Workshop facilitated by Metropolarity.net member and Laser Life founder Alex Smith
2013 Glyph Comic Awards - honoring and recognizing those creators making great contributions to the African image in graphic novels, comic strips and comic books
ECBACC S.T.A.R.S (Storytelling That Advances Reading Skills) - a program held at the Free Library of Philadelphia to address the literacy skills of young people by using interactive comic book themed exercises that promote reading as fun and exciting
METROPOLARITY: Journal of Speculative Vision and Critical Liberation Technologies.
Season 01 Episode 01
Out soon!
Preparing side gear for Roots and River & Femme Dreamboat’s Zine-A-Thon on Sunday. 4-9pm @ Wooden Shoe in Philly.
We’ll be debuting our first print media in zine format, as well as presenting from our collective works. If zine making seems like a daunting task but you’ve always wanted to make one, this event is for YOU. There will be supplies, chill atmosphere, and chill people who have made zines before to hang with and ask questions. \^o^/
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Roots and River Philadelphia is an artistic home for Queer Black artists in Philadelphia. R&RPC works to provide programming & other resources for LGBTQ & POC artists. You can find more information about them here: http://rootsandriver.com/ or here: http://rootsandriverphilly.tumblr.com/
Femme Dreamboat is a radical zine and blog project designed to centralize feminine experience in queer culture. Find them at http://femmedreamboat.tumblr.com/=====================
METROPOLARITY: Journal of Speculative Vision and Critical Liberation Technologies
R. Phillips, creator of The AfroFuturist Affair and founding member of Metropolarity 215 SciFi Collective, will be presenting future visions in story form with the Metropolarity crew at Sunday’s ZINE-a-THON.
Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director of Franklin Institute, Derrick Pitts checking out the AfroFuturist Affair website! He said it was cool:) He’s also an Octavia Butler fan.
He’s on Ed Schultz right now.
Another fellow Black scientist!
