SLIPPAGE: PERFORMANCE | CULTURE | TECHNOLOGY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY – CHICAGOLAND PROGRAMMING
FALL 2023 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
October 12: Uprooted Film Screening
Featuring a talkback with featured contributors to the film. 6:45PM – Wirtz Center @ Abbott Hall, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.
October 13-14: Dancing A Black Social Symposium
A meeting of the multi-year SLIPPAGE project Black Dance and Geographies of Freedom supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, gathers advanced thought-in-motion around Black Social Dance practices, to create an organizational scaffolding that can elaborate thinking and moving in narratives of liberation. Learn more here.
Scholars, thinkers, cultural workers, artists, and activists are invited to a day-long interdisciplinary symposium that examines the multifaceted dimensions of Afrobeats as a noteworthy musical, historical, and cultural event. Learn more here.
November 1: Black Arts Consortium Fall 2023 Lecture Series
SLIPPAGE Director Thomas F. DeFrantz gives a talking dance lecture called “The Future Has Always Been Black” at the SLIPPAGE Lab at 5 pm. Learn more here.
November 2-3: Abstract Black Symposium
At this two-day creative retreat, Chicago researchers across artistic disciplines gather to wonder at the terms of ‘abstraction’ as they relate to the terms of Black life and Black creativity. Learn more about the event and participants here.
November 15: The Waiting Room: Rachel Russell in conversation with Thomas F. DeFrantz
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for more information or to discuss potential collaborations, contact: Shireen Dickson, sdickson@northwestern.edu