The Afropolitan Festival is back for its sixth edition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
This year, the event will celebrate Afrofuturism and its legacy in the art world. From 19 to 21 May, Bozar will host a number of concerts, cultural events, film screenings and creative and family workshops in addition to the Afropolitan exhibition.
The official theme is 'Legacies from the Black Cosmos', as this edition is meant to "praise the power of imaginations of black communities in creating new cosmoses where freedom of expression and self-identification is possible outside societal definitions," Bozar's website explains.
The festivities will be accompanied by a pop-up market with free entry, presented by the Belgian Entreprenoires network and featuring young black women entrepreneurs, designers and artists.
The festival will bring together artists from the Belgian and international African diaspora who are inspired by Afrofuturism in their work, such as singer Rokia Koné, singer, composer, dancer and performer Reinel Bakole and multi-award-winning writer Léonora Miano.
Poet and musician Saul Williams will also be coming to Brussels for the festival and will be presenting his internationally acclaimed film Neptune Frost.
In collaboration with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Afropolitan is also organising an After-Party Pride at the Réservoir Bar on the occasion of Brussels Pride on 20 May.
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The programme, put together by Black queer organiser Shoga Shoga, will include a selection of Black queer DJs from Paris and Brussels.
Afrofuturism is an artistic movement that emerged in the second half of the 20th century and has permeated literature, music and visual art. Mixing science fiction, technological culture and fantasy imagery, it imagines the future through a non-Western prism.
