The Black Speculative Arts Movement is a global community of intellectuals from the African Diaspora that seek to present, promote, and support human centered speculative imagination to catalyze streams of new thought that envision an inclusive future society.
This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with a statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics by an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Black people in the popular imagination, in science fiction, and in philosophies of history.
Black Speculative Arts Movement and Temple University in association with Carnegie Hall Announces 2024 Art Festival
Black Speculative Arts Movement and Temple University in association with Carnegie Hall Announces 2024 Art Festival
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Carnegie Hall Announces BSAM Collaboration with 2024 Festival and Exhibition
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Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice
January–May 2024
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CARNEGIE HALL: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice
The centerpiece of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 season is a powerful exploration of one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern human history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919–1933. Even with a progressive new constitution and the adoption of democracy, Germany emerged from World War I into a period of overwhelming economic hardship, social inequality and unrest, political polarization, and extremism. These challenges paved the way for the opportunistic rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, ultimately leading to the outbreak of World War II and the horrific devastation and genocide that followed.
Yet despite the turmoil and upheaval of the Weimar period, the arts and culture flourished as artists sought bold and innovative avenues for creative expression and sociopolitical commentary. At the same time, a thriving and decadent nightlife provided desperately needed escapism from the struggles of daily life, becoming an essential part of the social fabric.
Join us on a thought-provoking journey through artistic movements in classical music, jazz, cabaret, opera, art song, and more as we investigate the forces that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic— and the many lessons about the fragility of democracy that can be gleaned from its extraordinary collapse.
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