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A Charity & Costume Ball
![The AfroFuturist Affair is a proud supporter of Day #3 of Rockers 3rd Annual BBQ Weekend [Sunday July 21, 2013]!
Featuring:
Sun Ra’s Space is the Place pop-up film w/ Liberation Arts & Culture Works and MythMedia:21
Screen printing workshop with Philadelphia Printworks
Quantum Time Capsule workshop with The AfroFuturist Affair
Zine Fest featuring zines from Metropolarity & Moor Mother Goddess & House of Hayes & Rockers
Pop-up shop with Rocker’s Closet
Firebreathing, capoiera, and contortion workshops
BBQ, Bands, and more!
ROCKERS! Giving women of color bands in Philly a place to play since 2005.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/0d3901b6d68d5438cc7a8af9e0abd19a/tumblr_moknvpVJVf1r41qp4o1_500.jpg)
The AfroFuturist Affair is a proud supporter of Day #3 of Rockers 3rd Annual BBQ Weekend [Sunday July 21, 2013]!
Featuring:
Sun Ra’s Space is the Place pop-up film w/ Liberation Arts & Culture Works and MythMedia:21
Screen printing workshop with Philadelphia Printworks
Quantum Time Capsule workshop with The AfroFuturist Affair
Zine Fest featuring zines from Metropolarity & Moor Mother Goddess & House of Hayes & Rockers
Pop-up shop with Rocker’s Closet
Firebreathing, capoiera, and contortion workshops
BBQ, Bands, and more!
ROCKERS! Giving women of color bands in Philly a place to play since 2005.
Pictured above: 3/4 of the Metropolarity.net founding crew guest reading from the Journal of Speculative Vision and Critical Liberation Technologies at the Roots + RIver Philly x Femme Dreamboat Zine-a-Thon
Unpictured above: Founding Member Alex Smith of Laser Life
Submit Philly-tainted speculative visions to the journal at metropolarity@gmail.com
Check out those Just Seeds posters on the wall in the first photo. We carry those! They’re good ones. You can get them right here.
The AfroFuturist Affair is a proud crew member of the Metropolarity 215 SciFi Collective. We are taking submissions for Ep. 2 of the Journal of Speculative Vision and Critical Liberation Technologies at metropolarity@gmail.com.
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Support the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship
Want to support more writers like Octavia Butler? Philadelphia Printworks will donate a portion of the proceeds for this shirt to the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia Butler Scholarship for Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at UCSD.
You can still get Bloodchildren until June 22, 2013. All of the proceeds for your donation go to the scholarship.http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/book/bloodchildren/
Give $8.01, get a free book before it’s gone! We’ll be reading excerpts in her honor on her birthday: Octavia Butler Birthday Celebration/Visit Octavia Butler
“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talentshttp://www.philadelphiaprintworks.com/collections/shirts/products/octavia-butler
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is defending his city’s decision to close 23 schools and lay off thousands of workers in the face of a $304 million deficit—all while Pennsylvania is investing in a $400 million state prison in suburban Philly.
Nutter told Chris Hayes Monday night that Pennsylvania’s School Reform Commission, which voted in March to close 23 schools, took the “right steps in honest budgeting” after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and the state’s Republican-controlled House cut $961 million from its pre-K-12 education budget last year—a 12% cut in education across the state.
“These are some pretty tough economic times,” Nutter said. The state-run commission and Superintendent William Hite Jr. ”only budgeted the dollars they know that they’re going to have,” he added.
Nutter said that the city planned to seek additional funding from the state, but needed to find a way to save the money immediately. Effective July 1, 3,783 employees of the Philadelphia school system—which includes 676 teachers and 283 counselors—will be unemployed. Officials have said there will be more layoffs in the future.
The commission also recommended the closure of 23 schools, despite critics who’ve argued that “no district has reaped anything like a windfall” from selling emptied school buildings. Nutter said the schools that the commission, and Superintendent Hite chose to close contained too many vacant seats, and the goal of the public school system was to focus on providing a high-quality education across the city.
“You can’t maintain that level of inventory—70,000 vacant seats across the entire school system—and continue to provide high-quality service,” Nutter said.
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Octavia Butler Tee
Submitted by: Philadelphia Print Works
Photographed by: Adachi Photography
Styled by: Iye Yindae, Cultured Couture Gallerythat beard
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AFROPUNK PICTURES PRESENTS: The Triptych at The Philadelphia Museum of Art – AFROPUNK
Come out for a night of art and such.
June 12th, 6pm, Van Pelt Auditorium @ the art museum.
After party immediately following @ MAMA’S GUN
From 5-6pm TRIPTYCH featured artist/photog BARRON CLAIBORNE will be roaming the museum halls and taking pop-up portraits with PMA guests!! Be sure to get there early to get a pic with BARRON and a good seat for the screening…first come first shot!
Following the film will be a panel discussion with Film Director Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Sanford Biggers (featured artist), Barron Claiborne (featured artist), and Maori Karmael Holmes (The BlackStar Film Festival), moderated by Li Sumpter (MythMedia:21)
The AfroFuturist Affair will have photos from the Lost in Time photo series in Gemly’s Portal, a multigenerational art show of portals, alternate reality, and magic put on by the UCAL youth scifi magic art class.
The Metropolarity.net 215 Sci-Fi Collective will also be present to share our radical scifi media-making skills..
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Philly
Moor Mother Goddess Presents Mama’s Gun: A New Moon Sirius
and
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 business/organizations
MYTHMEDIA:21 STUDIOS/ROCKER’S CLOSET/ PHILADELPHIA PRINTWORKS/RAW FRUIT LLC /AFROFUTURIST AFFAIRThe AfroFuturist Affair is a proud community partner with Mythmedia Studios and Afropunk for the Philly premiere of “The Triptych” documentary at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, profiling contemporary visual artists Wangechi Mutu, Sanford Biggers, and Barron Claiborne. Following the film will be a panel discussion with the director and artists and Mamas gun A new moon Sirius afterparty!
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Philly
Moor Mother Goddess Presents Mama’s Gun: A New Moon Sirius
and
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 business/organizations
MYTHMEDIA:21 STUDIOS/ROCKER’S CLOSET/ PHILADELPHIA PRINTWORKS/RAW FRUIT LLC /AFROFUTURIST AFFAIR
The AfroFuturist Affair is a proud community partner with Mythmedia Studios and Afropunk for the Philly premiere of “The Triptych” documentary at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, profiling contemporary visual artists Wangechi Mutu, Sanford Biggers, and Barron Claiborne. Following the film will be a panel discussion with the director and artists and Mamas gun A new moon Sirius afterparty!
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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
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:
TODAY. IN FACT, RIGHT NOW.
(Look out for Metropolarity.net and AfroFuturist Affair members featuring at Synergy Reading Workshop)
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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
and
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:
