Upcoming Events

Black Quantum Futurism: CPT Reversal
Los Angeles
Nov 06, 2021, 2:00 PM – Mar 05, 2022, 6:00 PM
Los Angeles, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Exhibition at REDCAT Gallery at CALArts in Los Angeles
Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms
Santa Cruz
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Feb 01, 7:00 PM – Mar 19, 11:00 PM
Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Sun Ra Arkestra at Carnegie Hall feat. Moor Mother
New York
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Feb 17, 9:00 PM
New York, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019, USA
Space is the place! The Sun Ra Arkestra, under the longtime leadership of founding saxophonist Marshall Allen, is as vital and cheekily unpredictable as ever. Featuring cellist, composer, and polymuse Kelsey Lu; and poet, composer, and Black Quantum futurist Moor Mother.
documenta fifteen
Kassel
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Jun 18, 7:00 PM – Sep 25, 11:00 PM
Kassel, Kassel, Germany
TBD
Infinite Distance (online group exhibition)
https://infinitedistance.site
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Online Exhibition is up now
https://infinitedistance.site
The online exhibition INFINITE DISTANCE curated by Shani K Parsons embraces the im/possibilities inherent to humanity’s use of language - ever the imprecise tool - to commune across the unfathomable divide between our individual lives.
Paratext #59 with Black Quantum Futurism
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Dec 09, 2021, 7:00 PM
Hangar, Carrer Emilia Coranty, 16, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
For this occasion Monica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN, will introduce Black Quantum Futurism, winners of the Collide Residency Award, who will share part of their research developed in the framework of the Collide programme
Ancestors returning again / this time only to themselves Exhibition Opening (1)
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Sep 01, 2021, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Hatfield House, N 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
Experience a site-specific art installation by Black Quantum Futurism at the historic Hatfield House with the debut of "Write No History" short film https://myphillypark.org/event/ancestors-hatfield/
Community Futures Zine Brunch
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Aug 28, 2021, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Philadelphia, N 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
BQF's zine brunch and performances on the lawn of The Hatfield House as part of the Ancestors returning again/ exhibition
Ancestors returning again / this time only to themselves Exhibition Opening
Hatfield House
Aug 14, 2021, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Hatfield House, N 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
Experience a site-specific art installation by Black Quantum Futurism at the historic Hatfield House with the debut of "Write No History" short film
Staying Power
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Jul 12, 2021, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Village of Arts & Humanities, 2544 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19133, USA
https://monumentlab.com/projects/staying-power
Staying Power – Performance Festival
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Jun 12, 2021, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Village Arts, 2544 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19133, USA
Altered-Worlds: Black Utopia and The Age of Acceleration - Live Arts Symposium
https://newyorklivearts.org/event/altered-w
May 14, 2021, 3:40 PM
https://newyorklivearts.org/event/altered-w
A day-long symposium on Black Speculative Art at the intersection of accelerating technological innovation, climate change, a rising tide of neo-fascism, ethnic tension, and more
Talk + Short Films: Like Clockwork: Material Cultures of Time within Black Communities
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Mar 16, 2021, 2:00 PM GMT
Online
"Like Clockwork: Material Cultures of Time within Black Communities," Temporal Belongings Conference 2021: Material Life of Time (March 16, 2021)
Local MeanTime: Unpacking Systemic Racism in the Music Industry
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Feb 28, 2021, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Zoom
A discussion on identifying systemic anti-Black racism in the music industry, highlighting lived experiences, and forecasting/backcasting the future(s).
Local MeanTime: Black Grandmother Paradoxes x Out of Line Timelines
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Feb 27, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Zoom
A lecture-workshop on Black Timescapes, Time Travel + Temporal Displacement
Time & Memory in Sharswood: Community Histories + Futures (Local Mean Time)
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Feb 23, 2021, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM
https://futureslab.community
Join us for a discussion on Sharswood’s history, ways to get involved in preserving its' memories and legacies, working together to co-create Sharswood's future.
Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality
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Feb 22, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
VLC Webinar
On the occasion of the publication of Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture, a book of essays on the ways Black digital media artists have pursued liberation since the 1960s, join artists in conversation with author Anaïs Duplan, artist Deanna Bowen and VLC Fellow Rasheedah Phillips.
Local Mean Time: Black SciFi Happy Hour
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Feb 21, 2021, 5:30 PM – 7:15 PM
Zoom
Black scifi and spec fic readings and soundscapes - watch event here: https://youtu.be/PPH_rIr6kdU