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National Maritime Museum
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| Date and Times | October 2021- June 2022 |
Influenced by the afrofuturist world-making of musicians like Sun Ra and Igbo creation myths, the legendary 90s Detroit techno duo Drexciya named themselves after a mythological underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women who were thrown off slave ships. The Black Atlantis series invites artists, academics, activists and musicians to discuss the nautical afrofuturist mythologies that Black creatives have explored and what they tell us about the Black experience in the new millennium.
The Black Atlantis Series will take place both online and on site at the National Maritime Museum from October 2021 - June 2022
In conversation with Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert
Wednesday 13 October 6.30pm - 7.30pm
In this conversation with educator and activist Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert we explore afro-futurist mythologies in fiction and how these connect to climate justice, feminist practice and a radical Black liberation movements.
Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert is a London-based educator and activist. She is a member of Black Lives Matter UK and the Wretched of the Earth collective.
Her work focuses mainly on the politics of race, gender, class and climate justice. Her educational work centres on race and racism, black feminism and radical imagination. She currently works at the University of Warwick.
Alexandra has worked on a number of collaborative and creative projects and recently wrote a piece for Skin Deep magazine called 'No police, no pollution: A vision for Black liberation in the UK’.
Chair: Chardine Taylor-Stone : Adult Education Programmer at National Maritime Museum
Event Image: Pumzi 2009 Dir: Wanuri Kahiu
Black History Month 365
Join us in celebrating Black histories as part of a year round programmes of activities
B.O.S.S. X RMG
Saturday 4 December, time TBC
Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) was established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non-binary black and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture they wanted to learn, build and sustain a resource for our collective struggles. The system, based in London, is available to use or rent by community groups and others with the purpose of amplifying and connecting them.
The Turner Prize 2021 nominated collective will be taking over the National Maritime Museum's Great Map with their sound system and inviting guests to explore afrofuturistic and nautical themes through music, art and performance within our galleries.
