Black Future Month Opening Reception - The 3rd Annual Afrofuturism Art Exhibition @ OCAD University, Toronto, ON - Sun Feb 22nd! Runs until Fri Mar 6th!

BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3015
The 3rd Annual Afrofuturism Art Exhibition
Curated by Danilo McCallum
Sponsored by OCAD U
https://www.facebook.com/blackfuturemonth3015

The Black Future Month 3015 Exhibition is a platform for artists, designers and multi-media creatives who identify as Black to explore Afrofuturism and the infinite possibilities of our distant future. In authoring our own visions of the future, we are shaping our own destinies.

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Featuring work from:

Quentin “Vercetty” Lindsay, Ekow Nimako, Ola Ojo, Javid JAH, Komi Olaf, So Tee Oh, Chris Ak, Danilo McCallum, Odinamaad, Aaron Jones, Danisha Nugent, Stephen Surlin, Curtia Wright, Kanyika Yorke, and Dheeko Kinte.

BFM3015 OCADU Organizing Committee:
Lillian Allen, Quentin Babatundé VerCetty, Shamina Chherawala, Jade Lee Hoy, Camille Isaac, Andrea Fatona.

Black Future Month 3015 takes place in February at OCAD University on the year of its 125th anniversary. Known for being a leader in forward creative thinking and innovation OCAD U is a spectacular home for this exhibition that captures the visions of Black creatives imagining the great possibilities of our distant future.

The exhibition includes Black artists, designers and multi-media creatives across all disciplines. Painting, photography, 3-D rendering, laser printing, graphic design, illustration, Lego sculpture, performance art, dub, spoken word, audio soundscapes, video projection and architecture.

The over-aching theme of the Black Future Month initiative is a collective look into our far-off distant future as Black people. 3015. This quantum leap into the future, takes us not only 50 or even 100 years ahead, but 1000 years. The distant date is meant to provide a platform that enables us to break from the historic ties of oppression still prominent today. 3015 opens the imagination up to perspectives as
far as the limits of our psyche can allow. It offers an opportunity to imagine healthy utopic Black realities, oppose to merely looking into a future world with the advanced technology of hoover-boards and flying cars, where Black people are still facing the same kinds of racial, systemic, and mental oppressions.

Starships and time travel, Black holes, black magic, mysticism, past, present and future energies, ancestral memories, astral travelling, alternate states of consciousness, Black identity and representations, the effects of technology on culture, and messages from the ether are all subjects reflected on in this exhibition. All brought together through the lens of Afrofuturism.

Location:  OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON

Time:  6:00pm - 10:00pm

Admission:  FREE

Blessings from the Mothership,
& SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE

The Imperial Management

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