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The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra (2025)

Melkweg, Wednesday, November 25 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Together with Amsterdam music platform we will go back to the early years of Sun Ra. Before the world (and the cosmos) came to know him as the Afrofuturist pioneer of "space jazz", he was born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, deep in the heart of Alabama. The Belgian documentary The Magic City - Birmingham According to Sun Ra sheds light on how this often-overlooked yet magical music city helped shape the enigmatic visionary in his formative years. Filmmakers Guillaume Maupin and Pablo Guarise closely involved the city and its residents in telling not just Sun Ra's story, but that of their community. Inevitably, that story is marked by a legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism. Yet Sun Ra's gaze remained fixed on a more harmonious future. As he says at the start of the film: "My story is not part of history. Because history repeats itself, but my story is endless."

Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-magic-city-birmingham-according-to-sun-ra-2025

Dr. Alexandro Gradilla @ajgradilla.bsky.social talks about how the idea of Latinx futurism informs the work he does teaching students to build alternative futures through the art of storytelling. #latinx #latinxfuturism #afrofuturism #indigenousfuturism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemjjyuNTDU

Had a great time yesterday talking #solarpunk with @pkmutch and her brilliant class of entrepreneurs at #OCAD ... over video of course. Had a great time discussing the valences of #Utopia, trends in #ScienceFiction (#CanadianScienceFiction specifically) plus #IndigenousFuturism and #Afrofuturism

#AcademicTalk #PublicIntellectual #Humanities #PublicSpeaking #SF #SciFi #GenreFiction #ClassTalk #EnglishLiterature

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, “and, Black?”, 2017, archival inkjet print, 24 × 18 inches ★ USA ★ https://kameelahr.com #KameelahJananRasheed #KameelahRasheed #contemporaryart #contemporarygraphics #scanography #blackandwhite #andblack #afrofuturism #2010s

Teaching Afrofuturism in a Pakistani classroom

Afrofuturism lets us see Black people at the centre of their own stories with all the vibrant shades of their humanity.

Nudrat Kamal

#afrofuturism #futurism #sciencefiction #scifi #utopia #indigenous #indigenousfuturism

https://www.dawn.com/news/1567738

Now that I'm happily settled into a server I see myself staying on long-term (Humanities Commons), I thought I would finally write an #introduction.

I'm Smaran Dayal, currently an Assistant Prof. of #Literature at #Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

I recently got my #PhD in #ComparativeLiterature from #NYU. My PhD dissertation, which I'm now working into a book was a study of literary #Afrofuturism, in particular the novels of #SamuelDelany and #OctaviaButler.

Along with Ulrich Baer, during the first year of the pandemic, I co-edited an anthology of American literature titled Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts.

My primary research interests are #GlobalAnglophone and #AfricanAmerican literature, #postcolonial literary studies, #queertheory and #queerliterature, and, centrally, #sciencefiction studies.

Lovely to (re)connect with you all here!

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