To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the experimental, afrofuturist sci-fi film, SPACE IS THE PLACE, join Field Meridians, Alfreda's Cinema, Councilman Chi Osse, and NYC Parks for a night of black nature films.
SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974. John Coney) is a time capsule of Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra in all their glory. Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album of the same name. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony. With the pre-show short, AFRICANS WITH MAINFRAMES (2023. Kima Hibbert).
6PM - Birding Poetry & Power (RSVP here)
6PM - Music by Duane Harriott
8PM - Screenings Begin
What to Bring:
- Picnic Blanket
- Snacks
- Friends
About Alfreda's Cinema
Founded by Melissa Lyde in 2015, Alfreda's Cinema screens films that tell Black stories that resonate with depth and love, the richness and culture of our history, our dynamics, our shapes, our colors, and our truth.
About Field Meridians Nature School
FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.
