Ticket sales for our #LuminaryGala close this Wednesday, Nov 27! Join us for a celestial evening where we will honor genre-defying luminaries, while raising essential funds for our work to provide platforms to artists of the global majority.
Tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/…
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Join us next week on Oct 29 at 7PM for our #Seen007 launch party! The evening will include a conversation between guest editor @jatovia and NAKED ACTS director Bridgett M. Davis, followed by a reception with music, lite bite, and dancing.
RSVP: blackstar.eventive.org/sched…
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Join us next week on Oct 29 at 7PM for our #Seen007 launch party! The evening will include a conversation between guest editor @jatovia and NAKED ACTS director Bridgett M. Davis, followed by a reception with music, lite bite, and dancing.
RSVP: blackstar.eventive.org/sched…
ALT A photo of two people at a table handing out copies of Seen Journal. They are smiling, there is someone visiting the table picking up a copy.
Issue 007 of Seen, guest edited by multi-hyphenate artist @jatovia, is officially on stands today!
This timely and timeless issue features reflections from acclaimed artists like @bridgettmdavis, @ZainaArafat, and more.
Order a copy today: shop.blackstarfest.org/produ…#Seen007
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We're been reflecting on the vibrant legacy of Faith Ringgold. Among her many accomplishments, she co-founded Where We At, a collective for Black Women Artists with Kay Brown & Dindga McCannon. Read more about it in this 2022 interview with Dindga: blackstarfest.org/seen/read/…
Amaza Lee Meredith, is an undersung figure of Black history, who helped shaped new possibilities for rest and Black recreation. Read about the pioneering architect and her legacy in the development of Azurest, a beachfront community in NY.
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In an essay on archival impulses for #Seen002, writer Tzutzumatzin Soto ponders autonomous storytelling practices and the meaning of the archived image.
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Submissions for #BSFF24 close on Monday! Don't miss this chance to screen alongside some of today's best indie filmmakers! Learn more and submit: blackstarfest.org/festival/s…
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This month we're highlighting an essay from our archives by the late critic Greg Tate (1957–2021) on the work of director @JulieDash.
Read: blackstarfest.org/seen/read/…
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Get your your hands on #Seen006, featuring over 200 beautifully designed pages filled with gorgeous photography and thoughtful analysis and critique on film, art and visual culture. By and For Us.
Order now: seenjournal.org
Read an examination of the work of the women of the LA Rebellion, the narrative ethics of care around which their work is formulated and how they serve as study for how to contend with rupture and carve out future worlds.
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Featured in this month's Observed column, Zoé Samudzi's essay, which originally appeared in the BlackStar Film Festival Catalogue, on the “demands made on Black women’s cultural production.”
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In our latest issue read about Jesús Hilario-Reyes AKA Morenxxx, an antidisciplinary maven of sculpture, digital imaging, and performance whose work explores the subversive textures of queer Black life.
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Revisit Nuotama Bodomo's 2021 immersive keynote presentation, at @blackstarfest's #GreavesSeminar, which explored thinking beyond the three-act structure, honoring indigenous film industries, and understanding how our ancestors gathered and collectivized.
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