An AfroFuturistic approach to Burlesque, Art, and Performance through the lens of local and traveling spectacular Black and Brown Artists.

Infinity Hour: The Future is Black

What’s our Theme: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

Inspired by the transformational story of The Matrix and the power of community, education, and self love of The Black Power Movement, we travel through space, time, and out of the artificial intelligent void to tell a story of exaltation and strength. A kingdom that governs out of Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Purpose, Creativity, and Cooperation.

Dresscode: Black, Bronze, Leather, Knit/Handmade, 60'S AND 70'S inspired(NO CHAINS)

Step out of the Matrix and meet us at The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret

What is AfroFuturism?

The term "afrofuturism" was coined by Mark Dery in his 1994 essay, "Black to the Future." In the piece, the term is defined as "speculative fiction that treats African American themes and addresses African American concerns in the context of the twentieth century technoculture—and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future."

It's important to note that, although Dery's definition provided an official name for the work that Black writers and artists were doing within this genre, it does not define the full scope of where afrofuturism has been and where it's going. A more targeted and expansive definition by multi-hyphenated author Ytasha Womack best describes what afrofuturism is and how it functions.

"Afrofuturism is a way of looking at the future and alternate realities through a Black cultural lens. Black cultural lens means the people of the African continent in addition to the Diaspora, the Americas, Europe, etc. It is an artistic aesthetic, but also a kind of method of self-liberation or self-healing.

It can be part of critical race theory and in other respects its an epistemology as well. It intersects the imagination, technology, Black culture, liberation, and mysticism. An an artistic aesthetic it bridges literature, music, visual arts, film, and dance. As a mode of self-healing and self-liberation, it's the use of imagination that is most significant because it helps people to transform their circumstances. Imagining oneself in the future creates agency and it's significant because historically people of African descent were not always incorporated into many of the storylines about the future."

- https://libguides.pratt.edu/afrofuturism

Sponsored by PUNK BLACK

Join local Black and Brown creatives and artists explore the intricate world of imagination to tell a new story, an old story through a different lens, and something yet to be imagined.

21+

Allways Lounge and Cabaret
Twilight Room

N ew Orleans

Doors: 10:30

Show: 11:00pm

Produced by La Reina, local Burlesque performer and Von Phoenix, founder of Punk Black