Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/23/2019
5:00 pm until 8:00 pm

Location
Buffalo Arts Studio

Categories

Buffalo Arts Studio is partnering with Panthfrica to present a visual and performing arts celebration on Friday, August 23, 2019 from 5:00-8:00 pm. Panthfrica is a collective of black creatives that transform and empower communities through the arts and entrepreneurship by partnering with community arts organizations to present special events that reflects the Afro-futurist view of a powerful, heroic future for people of color while also sharing music and spoken word rooted in African traditions. The Panthfrica Celebration coincides with a solo exhibition by Stacey Robinson (Urbana-Champaign, Ill) whose work discusses ideas of “Black Utopias” as decolonized spaces of peace. Also on display will be an exhibit by Black Kirby, a collaboration between Robinson and John Jennings (Riverside, CA) based on their most recent project Night Boy: a graphic novel that tells the story of a young victim of police brutality who becomes a pawn in a supernatural power struggle, and a guardian of the City of Light. In the Community Space Gallery will be artwork by Buffalo students who participated in a week-long workshop with Stacey Robinson. Students will develop graphic novel sequences based on Night Boy and create original artwork inspired by Black Kirby’s bold forms, combining themes centered around Afrofuturism, social justice, representation, and magical realism.

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