ATLANTAFUTURISM - ATL Indie Creator Meetup - SPACEFUNK! Release Party

Come join a celebration of ATL Afrofuturism and Creativity with our first meetup of ATLANTAFUTURISM in 2025!

Our meetup will feature a curated vendor list of Atlanta based and globally connected creators in comics, books and novels, art, crafts and much more.

Guest Speakers: SPACEFUNK! Anthology Authors

We will host a guest panel of SPACEFUNK Anthology authors from MVMedia's hit Kickstarter release at 7pm EST, with light bites and Afrobeats as we network and enjoy games, art and each other.

SPACEFUNK! Curated music playlist and light bites served as advanced copies of the SPACEFUNK! Anthology will be availble for sale and signage.

SUBSUME VIP Members and advance ticket buyers get a FREE SPACEFUNK! package with purchase.

From Spacefunk! Georgia Tech Author 2024 Presentation:

One of the things I found most rewarding about the Spacefunk! event was its powerful reminder that the stars have always been all of ours. Most histories of space flight in modern science fiction begin with speculative pioneers Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne before moving on to space opera luminaries such as E.E. “Doc” Smith and hard science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein. However, the fifty-plus Black-authored works collected in Spacefunk!, coupled with Davis’s introductory essay on the long history of Black contributions to the U.S. space program, invite us to tell a different story about the history of space flight in science fiction. Told through the lens of Black speculation, we should instead begin that history with the enslaved Black colonial poet Phillis Wheatley Peters, whose 1773 poem gave us our first images of genius-level Black star children escaping the gravitational pull of Earthly racism on the Mothership of Imagination—images that quite literally came to life in the late 1970s with Parliament-Funkadelic’s life-sized “Mothership” stage prop, which singer George Clinton always insisted was the embodiment of Black liberation!

Lisa Yaszek
Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies
Georgia Tech

Event Sponsored by:

MVMedia

Black Coffee

133artMocha

Memoirs Press

Peda Studios

Second Sight Publishing

Pollo Primo

Multiverse Convention

Georgia Tech Literature, Media, and Culture Department

Georgia Tech Space Research Initiative

Brought to you by SUBSUME.

Venue: SUBSUME Studios

Underground Atlanta Art Walk

50 Lower Alabama (By The MARTA Tunnel)
Atlanta, GA 30303

Host or Publisher SUBSUME