Black to the Future: An Arts Festival of Art, Social Justice, and Dreaming is a reframing of what it means to celebrate Black History Month.
The festival has an eye toward the relationship between remembering and reimagining; it’s a way to honor the past while simultaneously imagining the future we want to live in.
With concepts from AfroFuturists in mind, the festival brings together “the imagination, technology, the future, and liberation” via experimentation and a redefinition of culture and blackness itself. It also focuses on the critical impact of art, poetry, and music in helping to change culture so that what we dream might actually become reality.
Spanning four days, the festival is a celebration of the creative arts across genres. Performance and visual artists, musicians, poets, and dancers will, in practice, think inside of this and other historical moments and our potential relationships to a liberated, speculative future.
Submissions for the Black To The Future art exhibition (to be held in Alumni Hall's Connolly Ballroom) are open. You can submit your art for display by using this form.
For more information on events, see the webpage.
