About this Event
On Thursday, March 27, we will be joined by Chicago Afrofuturist legend Ytasha Womack in celebration of her newest book, The Afrofuturist Evolution: Creative Paths to Self Discovery!
About the Book
Drawing on disparate philosophies and science behind electronic beat-making, lyricism, dance, memory, myth, and cosmology in the African and African Diasporic traditions, this book seeks to demonstrate relationships between rhythm, space, and ways of being as an articulation of futures and alternate realities made present.
From Senegalese poet, political theorist, and politicia Leopold Sedar Senghor's ideas on the plastic arts and Negritude to writer Malidoma Patrese Some's articulation of water symbolism in Burkina Faso; to tap dance exercises to composer, DJ, and recording artist King Britt's Blacktronica, The Afrofuturist Evolution aims to demonstrate Afrofuturism as embodied theory in practice.
This book--in simple, straightforward, but powerful ways--invites readers to bring these practices into their own lives.
About the Author
Ytasha L. Womack is a critically aclaimed author, filmmaker, dancer, independent scholar, and champion of humanity and the imagination. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture (2013) is the leading primer on the subject which bridges science fiction, futurism, and culture. The book is a 2014 Locus Awards Non-Fiction Finalist.
Ytasha is the co-creator of the film Niyah and the Multiverse, a film currently showing at Chicago's Adler Planetarium that follows an imaginative Chicago preteen on a visually stunning Afrofuturist journey through the multiverse.
Her film "A Love Letter to the Ancestors from Chicago" (2017) was featured in Afropunk Brooklyn, Black(s) to the Future Fest in Paris, Cultura IberaAmerica in Cuba, Afrotopia in Bristol, England, Reel Time Film Fest in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Black Harvest Film Fest in Chicago.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 25.36
