{"id":8940,"date":"2019-04-22T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2020-09-08T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:48:08","slug":"8940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2019\/04\/22\/8940\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Afrofuturism &#038; Black Speculative Arts Expo and Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2019\/04\/22\/8940\/dsc_0953\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0953-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0953-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0953-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0953-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2019\/04\/22\/8940\/dsc_0625\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8942\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0625-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0625-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0625-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0625-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?attachment_id=8941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0552-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0552-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0552-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_0552-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2019\/04\/22\/8940\/dsc_0953\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8943\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?attachment_id=8944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_1006-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_1006-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_1006-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2019\/04\/DSC_1006-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who participated in and attended our event on Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts on Thursday!<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoyed hearing varying perspectives on engaging in the Black Speculative Arts Movement with all sorts of mediums, including visual arts, comics, film, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Again, thank you to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei<br \/>\n<\/strong>Director and Professor of African American Studies at Boston University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Reynaldo Anderson<\/strong><br \/>\nCritic, Editor, Activist and co-founder of BSAM, Harris-Stowe State University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWriter, poet and editor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quentin Vercetty<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Media Visual Artist and Storyteller, Montreal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacey Robinson<\/strong><br \/>\nVisual Artist and Curator, U of Illinois<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Kirkman<\/strong><br \/>\nFilmmaker, Saint Louis Missouri<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/lightroom.adobe.com\/shares\/24de90421bca49e68ce3464b825e956f\">more photos of the event here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who participated in and attended our event on Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts on Thursday! We hope you enjoyed hearing varying perspectives on engaging in the Black Speculative Arts Movement with all sorts of mediums, including visual arts, comics, film, and more. Again, thank you to: Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei Director and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}