Received through BASFA's Meetup.com page. I'm forwarding in case some of you
might be interested.
Adrienne
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Joseph (Bay Area Science Fiction Association) Bay Area Science Fiction
Association Channing Joseph Thought some of your members might be interested
in this event. SF Weekly Newspaper is calling it one of the "can't miss
exhibits" of February.
Science fiction has a reputation for attracting nerdy white guys, but there was
one black woman writer who could slay Comic-Book Guy from The Simpsons and The
Lone Gunmen from The X-Files, and fend off any nettlesome Trekkies while
suppressing a yawn. Afrofuturist, MacArthur Award winner, and supreme genius
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) wrote brilliant novels like The Parable of the Sower
and The Parable of the Talents (set in a dystopian, near-future California)
that consider topics like gender, the morphology of race, cultural imperialism,
and the future of the species alongside more typical sci-fi fare like weird
aliens. Ten years after her death, Butler is being honored with two shows at
the end of the month.
First, Live Worms Gallery straddles Black History Month and Women's History
Month with Octavia's Attic: ARTifacts From Our Possible Futures (Feb. 24 -
March 2), a compendium of over two dozen artists. Through the use of painting
to video art to interactive installations, these creative minds have been
tasked with re-imagining "time-navigation tools" discovered posthumously in
Butler's attic and which she may or may not have singlehandedly dragged from
other dimensions. Expect post-psychedelic poster art from Black Kirby,
spoken-word incantations from Walidah Imarisha, a "psychotemporal transcranial
stimulation device (PTSD)" from lawyer and science fiction author Rasheedah
Phillips, which allows visitors to experience past events, and more.
Relatedly, a two-day show called Parables of the Future, an interactive art and
science event that combines choreography with the current science on time
travel, arrives Feb. 27-28. Featuring Brontez Purnell, Shinnerrie Jackson, and
University of Connecticut physics professor Dr. Ronald Mallett, it might open
up a tear in the space-time continuum and fill it with paradoxes of queer
African-American awesomeness. (The only thing better than learning how to build
your own time machine is hearing an original performance set to Butler's own
text, right?)
Octavia’s Attic: ARTifacts From Our Possible Futures, Feb. 24 - March 2, at
Live Worms Gallery, 1345 Grant Ave., sflivewormsgallery.com, octaviasattic.com.
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