A talk on Octavia Butler’s work, given by biologist and science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski at the 2000 conference of the Science Fiction Research Association.
“Unlike the vast majority of alien abduction tales, Dawn actually presents a biologically plausible explanation for why the Oankali need to interbreed with humans.”
Toronto, Canada
Menaka Thakkar Dance presents:
CHITRA — WARRIOR PRINCESS
A message from Ms. Thakkar:
It is my pleasure to invite you to come and see my newest choreography at Premiere Dance Theatre or the Markham Theatre for Performing Arts in June.
Chitra: Warrior Princess is a feminist retelling of the classic story of Chitrangada that was taken from an episode from the famous epic Mahabharata and further inspired by a play by Rabinidranath Tagore.
For those of you who enjoy classical Indian dance, I think that you will be intrigued by the combination of Bharatanatyam and Odissi with a bit of the martial art Kallari Payattu that I have used in the choreography for Chitra: Warrior Princess.
Performances will be held at Premiere Dance Theatre at Harbourfront Centre on June 2 ,3, & 4 and also there will be one show at The Markham Theatre for Performing Arts on June 24. Tickets will be on sale at Harbourfront on Saturday May 6th and at Markham Theatre by mid to late May.
For information about the show, please look at the Menaka Thakkar Dance Company website. our
I hope that you will be able to join us!
Menaka Thakkar,
Artistic Director
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company
SPACES mounts the first exhibition in Ohio to explore the idea of Afrofuturism, the subculture that deals with the interplay between time, technology, race and culture in the USA. Seventeen artists, from both historical and future viewpoints, tackle the impact of technology on the physical, social and spiritual lives of black people.
Thanks, Sheree, for the pointer to this review this review by Lyz Bly.
The current exhibition at SPACES — Afrofuturism — attempts to address the ways African-American artists interpret and appropriate technology, literary fiction and electronic music, as well as images from the mass media and popular culture. There are nods to science fiction and the phantasmagoric in the exhibition as well. What is at the heart of Afrofuturism, however, is the acknowledgment of a history that continues to shape the present and the future; clearly, “black to the future” is, and always will be, steeped in the past.
