Black Future Festival
Monday, February 19, 2024
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Join us for a week of reflection and future-forward fun inspired by the national celebration of the African Diaspora and Black History Month. With our guest curator, Kendra J. Bostock and STooPS, we’ll be presenting workshops, dance performances, storytelling, and more.
SCHEDULE
Portals: Doors to the Black Past and Future
This multidisciplinary dance performance looks at everyday items in our lives that serve as portals to the Black past, present and Afro-future. KJB Works transports us across time and space using her Sankofa process, inspired by the Ghanaian Akan term for “looking back to move forward.” Performed by Kendra J. Bostock, Brittany Grier, J’Nae Simmons, and Kimani Fowlin.
11:00 am – 11:45 am & 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Moving Stories: Dance
A movement experience that includes various dance forms from the African Diaspora (traditional African forms, modern, jazz, Afrobeat). Led by Carmen Carriker.
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
Remembering and Transforming: Storytelling
Journey with us as we tell stories of the past, present, and future. We will listen to stories of Bed-Stuy and remember ancestors who created a path with their legacy. Together we will bring our stories to life and create movement for the journey ahead. Move to the music and create a collective poem. Led by Wema Ragophala.
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Afrofuturistic Comic Covers
Join us in ColorLab to design your own Afrofuturistic comic book cover, inspired by the work of author and illustrator, John Jennings.
10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm