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SUMMARY:Black Bottom Film Festival: Film Submission
DESCRIPTION:EMPOWERING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION THROUGH FILM \nSubmission Deadlines\nFebruary 17\, 2023\nEarlybird Deadline \nMay 19\, 2023\nRegular Deadline \nAugust 18\, 2023\nLate Deadline \nSubmit Your Film \nBlack Bottom Film Festival-August Wilson African American Cultural Center proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway\, the world’s #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests. \n\nThe August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) is a performing arts center\, named for Pulitzer Prize winning playwright\, and Pittsburgh native\, August Wilson. Our programming focuses on exhibiting and celebrating art and expression from Black culture across the African diaspora. \nFrom age-old classics to contemporary work\, the Black Bottom Film Festival (BBFF) illuminates and celebrates African American cinema and uniqueness of Black people on film. The festival screens short and feature films rooted in the recurring themes of spirituality\, race\, family conflict\, honor\, duty and the struggle of the working-class; themes ever-present in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays. In particular\, the festival celebrates African American filmmaking pioneers and history makers. The BBFF fosters an examination of how Black filmmakers use art to inspire\, challenge\, confront\, and influence American culture. \nThe August Wilson African American Cultural Center believes that creativity is boundless. We invite you to share your creativity on film with us.
URL:https://awaacc.org/event/black-bottom-film-festival-film-submission/
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SUMMARY:Lit Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Lit Fridays is a literary-focused\, virtual salon presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, featuring conversations and guest performances on the last Friday* of each month at 6:00p EST via Facebook Live and Zoom Webinar. All conversations are moderated by AWAACC Literary Curator\, Jessica Lanay. \n\nBrad Walrond \npoet| author | filmmaker | mixed-media conceptual\, performance artist |activist \nBrad’s poetics\, performance\, and multi-disciplinary work interpolates between virtual reality\, identity formation\, and human consciousness at the intersection of race\, gender\, sex\, and desire. By amplifying and interrogating the great power and contradictions inherent to identity Brad aims with his work to provoke futurist explorations of how we co-create historical\, remembered\, and imagined time. The urgency that suffuses Brad’s work interrogates the great power and contradictions inherent to identity and ask how can we cultivate habitable futures worthy of the common and conflicting threads of our human inheritance. \nWalrond’s forthcoming debut collection Every Where Alien\, on Moore Black Press\, Harper Collins\, locates the author’s own black queer exploration of the world\, and how these experiences map onto the discovery of co-occurring and overlapping art and resistance movements among New York City’s underground communities. Communities like the New Black Arts Movement\, the New York Ballroom Scene\, Black Rock Coalition\, Underground house dance and music community\, and the black queer political arts and activist movements that arose in response to racism homophobia transphobia and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Brad is native to Brooklyn\, New York and currently resides in the Bronx. Brad began writing and performing at the age of 24 when commissioned to participate in a theater production curated by Harry Belafonte. Brad soon became one of the foremost writers and performers of the 1990s Black Arts Movement centered in New York City. Brad’s poetics and praxis has taken him across the country and as far as São Paulo\, Brazil and Taipei\, Taiwan.
URL:https://awaacc.org/event/lit-fridays-2023-08-25/
CATEGORIES:Free,Lit Friday,Literary
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