AfroFutures UK 2015
Our inaugural event will be held on 10th October at the Manchester Digital Laboratory. Entrance is free, but donations are welcome! Please book your place at our ticket site. You can also find out more about our special guests and events.
•Schedule of events•
Time |
Event |
Guest |
Location |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Registration | ||
| 10:00 | Introduction | Florence Okoye | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 10:15 | Afrofuturism in Children’s Literature | Mary Ononokpono | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 10:30 | Screenings at Terrace
10:35 – Robots of Brixton, Factory Fifteen 10:45 – Jonah, Factory Fifteen 11:00 – The Abyss, Christina Fonthes 11:10 – Spaced, Naomi M 11:15 – Palimpset, Ewuraba Hama-Lansiquot 11:30 – I AM BECAUSE I AM, SuAndi 11:45 – Kanda Bongo Man, Clive Hunte 12:00 – Femi Kuti, Clive Hunte |
Terrace NQ | |
| 10:30 | Programming Workshop (on all day with a break from 12:00-15:00) | Tutors: Florence Okoye, Arduino Manchester | Madlab, Second floor |
| 10:45 | We Travel the Spaceways: Afrofuturist Space Programs | Erik Steinskog | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 11:15 | Break | Guest performance by Travis Alabanza | MadLab |
| 11:30 | ‘The Process of Rearticulation and What it Means to be Black’ | Alice Okoye | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 11:45 | Afrofuturism, Autonomy and Pan Africanism at the End of History | Dr Reynaldo Anderson | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 12:00 | Do-It-Yourself Time Travel/Quantum Time Capsule workshop Workshop | Rasheedah Phillips | MadLab, Second floor |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:30 | Challenging the Radical Imagination: AfroFuturist Resistance as Personal Narrative | Carlyn Worthy | MadLab |
| 14:00 | Performance | Moor Mother Goddess | MadLab, Second floor |
| 14:30 | Zine-making workshop | Rudy Loewe | MadLab, Second floor |
| 14:30 | Stars, Aliens and Rockets | Jenny Terry | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 15:00 | Experimentation and Play | Pablo Eyes | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 15:30 | Break | MadLab, Ground floor | |
| 15:45 | Afrofuturism as a Narrative Aesthetic in ‘The Intuitionist’ and ‘Zone One’ | Souleymane Ba | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 16:15 | Female Engineer: Inspiring the Next Generation | Natalie Luwisha | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 16:30 | Sonic Realism, Sonic Actualism and Black Music | Damion Kareem Scott | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 17:00 | Grand Panel | Everyone | MadLab, Ground floor |
| 17:45 | Plenary | Nikky Norton Shafau | MadLab, Ground floor |
Our event officially ends at 6pm but you are welcome to stay in MadLab until 7pm, which is when our fabulous afterparty will commence…
Special Guests
We’re honoured to host a range of artists, activists, musicians, hackers, writers, poets and academics at our seminal conference exploring the intersection of blackness and futurism. Find out about our guests who’ll be there at our 2015 event, held on 10th October at MadLab. If you would like to join as a speaker, volunteer, workshop … Continue reading Special Guests
Guest Panellists
We’ll be closing AfroFutures_UK with an open panel to discuss key topics raised throughout the day. As well as our guest speakers, artists and performers, we’ll also be joined by the following:
Screenings
From 10:30am at Terrace NQ, we will be showing short films from creatives throughout the UK. Find out more below.
Code of Conduct
AfroFutures_UK was created in a spirit of fun and experimentation and it’s in that spirit we intend to run the event. We want AfroFutures_UK to be a safe space for all, where everyone can feel free to speak and express themselves authentically. We’re here to inspire and most importantly to learn from each other. ~~~ We … Continue reading Code of Conduct
EXHIBITION
Interwoven throughout the space will be a range of visual art and soundscapes by new and established artists.
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