NBI Festival Fall 2012 Workshop Series
Creators and curators: Learn from the best. Click through to find out how!
VIDEO: 2011 Festival Recap
Hang onto your mouse! A recap of 25 speakers, 14 sessions and 4 musical performance in just over 4 minutes!
VIDEO: Dr. Irvin on Trends That Are Shaping The Future
The future isn’t as far away as you might think. In many ways, it’s already here.
VIDEO: The Difference Between “Post-Racial” & “Post-Black”
Clearing up misconceptions about two very misunderstood terms
VIDEO: Tyehimba Jess Reimagines The Poetic Form
The poet illuminates the lives of two vaudeville icons
VIDEO: Lynnette Freeman reads Danzy Senna
Enter “The Land of Beulah”
VIDEO: DJ 2-Tone Jones on “Shaolin Jazz”
The story behind the music project that brought together the Wu-Tang Clan and classic jazz artists like Ahmad Jamal and Lonnie Liston Smith.
VIDEO: Dr. Nat Irvin II on the “Demographic Singularity”
Photo credit: Ed Marshall Photography NYC Dr. Irvin, our opening keynote speaker, really brought it. After nearly 40 minutes of blowing our heads separating the fact and fiction of what the future will be like, this five minute clip has him summarizing things. The important takeaways here are the mindset that we’ll all need in […]
Post-Festival Highlights
My first thought: Thank you. That’s right, the first Festival of the New Black Imagination was a success, and I think the groundwork is laid for an even bigger and better event next year. But it couldn’t have happened without the support of a bunch of people. Yes, I did a lot of the heavy […]
The 2011 Speakers Lineup
Wow. It’s all coming together. We’ll be unveiling the Festival agenda shortly, i.e., what our speakers are going to discuss. But in the meantime, check out the speakers themselves. I mean, between the futurist, the visual artists, the music icons, the architect, the filmmaker, the entrepreneurs and poet, cultural critics and writers, it’s gonna be […]