Performing an Afro Future

651 ARTS

651 ARTS presents an in-depth conversation examining the creative cartography involved in imagining Afro futures.

The Center for Fiction

Performing an Afro FuturePerforming an Afro Future is an in-depth conversation featuring a panel of renowned artists and theater-makers examining the creative cartography involved in imagining Afro futures. We invite the audience to consider and imagine the future of Black arts with us.Join multi-award-winning musician Martha Redbone, singer-songwriter and educator Nicholas Ryan Gant (Ghetto Falsetto), multimedia performance artist MX OOPS, and interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer Alisha B. Wormsley as together we conceive, refine, and define how Black art can chart a path toward liberation. 6﻿51 ARTS651 ARTS is a 34-year-old legacy institution born in Brooklyn, NY in 1988 as an answer to a call to create programming that centers and values the performing arts and cultures of the African Diaspora.651 ARTS has a legacy of fueling the arts ecosystems within Brooklyn, while also presenting and producing work by emerging, established, and world-renowned artists from all over the United States, and the globe.It is a place to create and experience art that is led by, centers and celebrates Black voices.Liminal Spaces: HomeboundOur Fall 2022 season is Liminal Spaces: Homebound. The word liminal is rooted in the Latin word limen, meaning “threshold.” In its literal sense, a threshold is a doorway--or border between two places or stages. For Black people world-wide, liminal spaces have historically offered opportunity to imagine and create more sustainable futures. Futures where we may survive and thrive.For 34 years, 651 ARTS, as an institution, has navigated both literal and figurative liminal spaces--and is now homebound. That is, on the threshold of moving into its first permanent home at 10 Lafayette, in March 2023. This season, Liminal Spaces: Homebound, offers an opportunity to think, individually and collectively, about how we will show up in the future that we imagine.

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