Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on December 8th encourages us step from our Tardis or flip open our Omni while wearing clothes from the past. At the same time, we should act appropriately confused by certain technology. Time travel has captured our imaginations for generations. Science and authors keep coming back to the […]

Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts Part 3

Zoom

A Three-Part Virtual Series, 2nd Sundays, 2 pm (PST) October – December 2020 FREE TO THE PUBLIC Streaming Live on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram The 3-part series will end with a curated Afrofuturistic poetry reading. Poets reading include: Ayodele Nzinga, Devorah Major, Eugene Redmond, Darrell Stover, Michael Warr, Avotcja, Lenard Moore, Ishmael Reed, Staajabuz, Glenn Parris, […]

Festivus

Each year on December 23rd, Festivus commemorates a holiday episode of the television comedy, Seinfeld. In 1997, the popular television comedy brought Festivus to the masses when Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) explains he invented the holiday in response to the commercialism of Christmas. Its slogan is “A Festivus for the rest of us.”Combining holidays […]

National Short Film Day

NATIONAL SHORT FILM DAY On December 28th, National Short Film Day commemorates the day the motion picture industry was born, when the Lumière brothers projected a program of short films to a public audience for the first time. It was in 1895 at the Grand Café in Paris. Two brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, lit […]

National Science Fiction Day

National Science Fiction Day promotes the celebration of science fiction as a genre, its creators, history, and various media, too. On January 2nd annually, millions of science fiction fans across the United States read and watch their favorites in science fiction.