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Afrofuturism blends African diaspora culture with technology, and is known by readers of Octavia Butler, as well as cinephiles familiar with Marvel’s Black Panther. Celia C. Peters tells us about the origins and future of this cultural phenomenon.

„An Educational Guide to Afrofuturism“ is a multimedia primer on the definition, origins and foundations of Afrofuturism. It explores the cultural phenomenon across its various expressions in art, music, film and fashion, including an introduction to the players whose works comprise the genre.

Presenter Celia C. Peters provides a multifaceted introduction to what is one of the 21st century’s most powerful cultural juggernauts.

About Celia C. Peters:

Filmmaker, visual artist and screenwriter Celia C. Peters’s credits include her afrofuturist feature film Godspeed, currently under development with WarnerMedia150. She is the creator, writer, director and editor of Domesticated, an afrofuturist sci-fi audio drama, which will be released in early 2022, and curator of both the Urban Afrofuturism Film Program at the 2022 San Francisco Urban Film Festival and „Building Black Worlds“ as part of the Mothership Exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.

Peters is an honors graduate of University Michigan with a B.A. in French and Political Science, and she holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

This free event received partial funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.

Recorded April 27, 2022