The apocalypse is not new.

— Alexis Pauline Gumbs 

Come join us in... 

• Puzzling out what an afrocene is and how might it become context for our passage out of this dying era of modernity and the anthropocene. 

• Looking at the apocalypses we and our communities have survived, and what they are teaching us now. 

• Moving from the darkness of the womb into the darkness of the cosmos forming a pathway that will illuminate ways forward — ways where darkness/blackness can be utilized as a site of creation. 

For those of us of the African Diaspora…

At the event, there will also be a special portal for communing with ancestors, spirits, and the more-than-human kin will be opened in the deep waters of a soundbath and imaginal storyboard, with Shana Nunnelly. 

Join us for "Forward thinking as well as backward thinking, while having a distressing past, a distressing present, but still looking forward to thriving in the future.” — Kathy Brown paraphrasing Bennett Capers' 2019 work in stating that Afrofuturism.