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SUMMARY:Imaginarium: Social Imagination Experience
DESCRIPTION:February 22\, 2023 through April 9\, 2023 | The Lewis Now Gallery \nIn 1900\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, historian Daniel Murray\, and librarian Thomas J. Calloway exhibited at the World’s Fair in Paris\, celebrating global achievements that looked back over the past 100 years while incubating ideas that would mold the future. The Exhibit of American Negroes was a display that showcased the humanity\, diversity\, and experience of African Americans at the turn of the century. Over the past three years\, we have seen our world shift in ways we never thought; the IMAGINARIUM is a way that Black people can curate their vision\, hopes\, and ideas to be displayed for the world to see. \nThe IMAGINARIUM is an experimental and interactive exhibition of social imagination. It provides a space for visitors to share their vision for the feature of Black Baltimore\, Black Region D.C.\, Maryland\, Virginia (DMV)\, Black America\, and the Diaspora. In conjunction with our theme Black futures/Black imaginings\, the exhibit will ask a series of prompts and scenarios of visitors through engaging design activities that will encourage creative brainstorming for the future. \nThe investigative prompts that the IMAGINARIUM asks will discuss topics that impact the visitor as an individual and a member of the Black Community. The IMAGINARIUM will discuss socio-economic issues: mental health\, nationalism\, education\, public safety\, the workforce\, community spaces\, and the arts. \nLearn more   Plan Your Visit  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/imaginarium/
LOCATION:Reginald F. Lewis Museum\, 830 E. Pratt St.\, Baltimore\, 21202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined
DESCRIPTION:March 2nd through September 5th | DeSousa Gallery\, 2nd Floor \nMember preview March 1\, 2023 \nThe Reginald F. Lewis Museum is excited to partner with Galerie Myrtis and the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University to present the groundbreaking exhibition “Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined” for the first time in the United States. Curated by Myrtis Bedolla for the 2022 Venice Biennale\, “Afro-Futurist Manifesto” brings together a stellar assemblage of African-American Artists who construct a future forged in transatlantic links and Afrofuturism’s ideology to expand the notion of Blackness at the intersection of technology and liberation. This existence has been conceived\, as asserted by author Kevin Young\, in “Elsewhere … the remapping of what’s here\,” forming an alternative reality where one’s freedom and humanity is found. \nFeaturing the works of Tawny Chatmon\, Larry Cook\, Morel Doucet\, Monica Ikegwu\, M. Scott Johnson\, Delita Martin\, Arvie Smith & Felandus Thames. \nLearn more\nPlan your visit
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/afro-futurist-manifesto-blackness-reimagined/
LOCATION:Reginald F. Lewis Museum\, 830 E. Pratt St.\, Baltimore\, 21202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screenings and Post Discussion Afrofuturism: The Origin Story & Amethyst LoveGodz
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 1\, 2023 | 1 pm – 3 pm | Location: Reginald F. Lewis Museum\nThis program is included with Museum Admission. \nJoin the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for  a double film feature  examining the origins of Afrofuturism and discovering what it takes to keep Black love in the future. A post discussion with filmmakers Alexis Aggrey\, Jamal Gray and Denai “B Fly” Nixon will follow. \n \nSmithsonian Channel /Afrofuturism: The Origin Story (58 minutes) – From enslaved Phillis Wheatley’s poetry and Martin R. Delany’s alt-history novel “Blake” to Sun Ra’s avant-garde music and Marvel’s sci-fi blockbuster “Black Panther\,” the African- American experience has been explored and reimagined for centuries through many artistic mediums. This special brings together some of today’s most influential Black musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and theorists\, who celebrate and examine the historical and cultural impact of Afrofuturism through deep discussion and electrifying\, fantastical performances. \nAmethyst LoveGodz (28 minutes)  – While on a romantic date in their native land\, Kariz Marcel & BlackShesus are captured and sold into the transatlantic slave trade. Four hundred years after their abduction and murder\, they resurrect\, blind\, and in search of their other half. Guided separately by ancestral forces they journey through lifetimes and a foreign land to finally unite in holy matrimony and end the colonizers reign. In the tradition of family\, we pray their village leads them safely to the other’s love. Will they? Executive produced by BlackShesus and musically scored by Kariz Marcel this breakout silent film will challenge your perception of dialogue\, love\, and Blackness. \n  \nRSVP Here
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/film-screenings-afrofuturism-the-origin-story-amethyst-lovegodz/
LOCATION:Reginald F. Lewis Museum\, 830 E. Pratt St.\, Baltimore\, 21202\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Navasha Daya & Lafayette Gilchrist
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm | Location : Reginald F. Lewis Museum\nThe Museum is thrilled to celebrate the return of our First Friday Music Series this Spring. Kick off your weekend mingling at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum with local musical performances. Explore our latest on-of-kind exhibitions along with food and drinks by local chefs. During our Black Futures\, Black Imaginings Music Edition\, experience a wide range of music connected to Black futurism and celebrating the imagination\, time\, and liberation. \n \nBlack Futures\, Black Imaginings Music Edition: Featuring Navasha Daya & Lafayette Gilchrist \nFriday\, April 7\, 2023 | 6 pm – 8:30 pm | Performance begins at 7 pm\, Exhibits Open at 6 pm. \n For Jazz Appreciation Month jam with “astral soul goddess” Navasha Daya and jazz pianist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist as they perform music that will liberate the soul and spirit. Navasha Daya\, Baltimore-based singer\, songwriter and producer\, has performed all over the globe for over 25 years as an indie – soul and jazz artist. Grammy- Award winning artist India.Arie described Navasha’s voice as “the true definition of soulful”. As a composer\, Navasha has written numerous songs focused on culture\, spiritual evolution and liberation pinning songs that encourage the utilization of indigenous technology as a solution to society’s injustices. As a solo artist she has received international acclaim from her solo releases. Prior to her solo releases\, Navasha served as lead vocalist\, songwriter and co-founder of the highly acclaimed Baltimore based soul/jazz band\, Fertile Ground. Navasha’s composition “Peace & Love” was remixed in Europe and opened the door to Fertile Ground’s international acclaim. Continuing the musical legacy of her cousin the late great Gil Scott Heron\, and embodying the influences of the likes of Phyllis Hyman\, Patti Austin\, Lyn Collins\, Mahalia Jackson\, Miriam Makeba\, Mavis Staples… her live show fuses her eclectic mix of Soul-Jazz – Funk and World Rhythms while pulling from her Mississippi Blues lineage. \nDrawing on the span of jazz history from stride to free improvisation\, along with inspiration from hip-hop\, funk\, and Washington D.C.’s unique go-go sound\, Lafayette Gilchrist’s music thrives on making surprising connections between styles and influences\, boldly veering from pile-driver funk to piquant stride\, vigorous swing to hip-hop swagger\, contemplative abstraction to deep-bottom grooves. Gilchrist has performed with Cassandra Wilson\, Macy Gray\, Oliver Lake\, Andrew Cyrille\, Orrin Evans\, Paul Dunmall\, Hamid Drake\, William Parker\, and many more. He has also recorded and toured regularly with Grammy-Award winning legendary saxophonist David Murray. Lafayette’s previous album Dark Matter (2019)\, Gilchrist’s second solo recording\, muses on the elusive and mysterious matter that ties the universe together and landed on numerous critics’ best of 2019 lists. His composition “Assume the Position” was used in the score for the HBO drama television series The Wire. His compositions have also been used in the HBO series Treme and The Deuce. \nSpecial Admission: Members: $20 and Future – Members $25; Food Prices are Separate Cost. \nPurchase Tickets \n 
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/first-friday-navasha-daya-lafayette-gilchrist/
LOCATION:Reginald F. Lewis Museum\, 830 E. Pratt St.\, Baltimore\, 21202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bmore Imaginarium Social Experience Panel Talk
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 8\, 2023 | 1 pm | Location: Reginald F. Lewis Museum\nThis program is included with Museum Admission. \nJoin the Reginald F. Lewis Museum as we discover how local Afro-futurists are using their creative\, technological and entrepreneurial skills at the community grassroots level to envision practical futuristic solutions for a better tomorrow in Bmore and beyond. This panel conversation will include the following Afrofuturists.  \n \n  \nJason Harris is a Baltimore based futurist\, educator and cultural activist. He is the founder and facilitator of the BlkRobot Project. Jason published the speculative fiction anthology\,  REDLINES: Baltimore 2028. \nNneka Nnamdi is the founder of Fight Blight Bmore\, a community-led economic\, environmental and social justice initiative informed by data compiled by her Fight Blight Bmore app. Nneka is a Baltimore based entrepreneur engaged in social mission driven entrepreneurship and community wellness work.  \nSafiyah Cheatam is an interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, and researcher passionate about Afrofuturism. Satifyah is a co-creator\, producer and writer of OBSIDIAN Podcast\,a speculative fiction anthology podcast based in Afrofuturism. \nOlu Butterfly Woods is a social entrepreneur and a distinctive performance poet.  Olu has produced a popular artist-development series Organic Soul Tuesdays\, a major afrofuture Artscape anchor project (The Mothership Connection)\, and the B-stage at AFRAM.   She will soon release Jupiter Memoirs: a collection of afro fantasy poems. \nRSVP Here
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/bmore-imaginarium-social-experience-panel-talk/
LOCATION:Reginald F. Lewis Museum\, 830 E. Pratt St.\, Baltimore\, 21202\, United States
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