BSAM ST LOUIS 2017 #BSAMstl2017

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
    December 14, 2016

    Contact:
    Maia "CROWN" Williams
    Black Speculative Arts Movement
    Co-founder, Executive Assistant
    (313) 451-0297, BSAMstaff@gmail.com

    Black Speculative Arts Movement #BSAMstl2017
    Harris-Stowe State University
    March 10-11, 2017

    Official schedule to be announced!

    St Louis, MO -
    Black Speculative Arts Movement​, aka BsaM, is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, and arts convention held at multiple colleges and universities thruought the United States.

    Our annual conventions, co-founded by associate professor and chair of the Humanities department at Harris-Stowe State University​, Reynaldo Anderson​, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts - MECCA​, Maia Crown Williams​, will include vending from a vast amount of comics, art, and artisan creators and vendors, live performances, a full international film festival via MECCAcon, seminars, classes, hand on workshops, plays, and much more. Students are also welcome to submit proposals to participate as well.


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    Planning stages for BSAM St Louis 2017 #BSAMstl2017 are underway!! This year's theme is UNIFIED RESISTANCE!

    PANELS/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS include::


    ●COMIC WORKSHOP, Tim Fielder
    ●SOCIAL​ ​JUSTICE​ ​PEDAGOGY-​ Dr Amber Johnson
    ●HACKATHON​ ​BLU​ ​1647
    ●BACK2BLACK​ ​Panel-​ ​ ​ Tim Fielder,​ Stacey Robinson, Damian Duffy
    ●LEMONADE,​ ​@Kinitra Brooks
    ●DIGITAL​ ​HUMANITIES,​ ​Toniesha​ ​Taylor
    ●ART​ ​GRANTS​ ​WORKSHOP,​ ​Jason​ ​Vassar
    ●AFROFUTURISM​ ​the​ ​2nd​ ​WAVE:​ ​THE​ ​BLACK SPECULATIVE ARTS MOVEMENT AND​ ​TRANSFUTURISM,​ ​Dr​ ​@Reynaldo​ ​Reynaldo Anderson,​ ​Amber​ ​Johnson
    ●GLOBAL​ ​HACKATHON,​ ​Global​ ​Hack
    ●COMICS​ ​AND​ ​LITERACY,​ ​Sharnez​ ​Givens​ ​and​ ​guests
    ●AFRICAN​ ​ECONOMICS,​ ​THE​ ​“ILLUMINATI”​ ​AND​ ​THE​ ​DEEP​ ​STATE,​ ​Andrew​ ​Rollins, ​Johnson​ ​Landcaster
    ●LABOR,​ ​POLITICS,​ ​AND​ ​ART,​ ​NEA,​ ​Greg​ ​Carr
    ●LIVE​ ​ART​ ​EXHIBITION,​ ​Innergy
    ●Play, ​ ​Gregory S. Carr





    Our official program is now being lined up. 
    If you are interested in moderating a panel, workshop, and/or lecture, please contact us today.




    Afrofuturism and astro blackness have been practiced in our community for years, especially thru literature, visual arts, and music. Artists like Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Basquiat, Fela Kuti, George Clinton, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Samuel Delaney, Jimi Hendrix, Paschal B. Randolph, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka,Tananarive Due, and the ZULU NATION are excellent examples.




    Black Speculative Arts Movement is a loose umbrella term represented for different positions or basis of inquiry: Afrofuturism, Astro Blackness, Afro-Surrealism, Ethno Gothic, Black Digital Humanities, Black (Afro-future female or African Centered) Science Fiction, The Black Fantastic, Magical Realism, and The Esoteric. Although these positions may be incompatible in some instances they overlap around the term speculative and design; and interact around the nexus of technology and ethics.




    BsaM is a continuation of the historical behavior within the Veil to engage the ideas of Dubois, Wright, Everett and others to pierce the Color Line, the Color Curtain, and understand the Digital Divide in the face of the challenges of the 21st century.

    Links:
    http://BSAMstl2017.eventbrite.com/
    http://blackspeculativeartsmovement.wordpress.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/blackspeculativeartsmovement
    http://MECCAcon.wordpress.com/

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    if interested in performing, exhibiting, paneling, holding a workshop, volunteering, serving as press, etc, please contact co-founder, 
    Maia Crown Williams at 
    BSAMstaff@gmail.com, 3134510297.

    Tables are limited.

    Location

    Harris-Stowe State University
    St. Louis, United States

    Dates

    From 17th March 2017 - 10:00 AM
    to 18th March 2017 - 09:00 PM