The Afro-Punk festival is a marathon of art and performance over a week in June and July intended to “nurture and celebrate the change” that's occurred in the past year or so helped largely, goes the press release, by Afro-Punk, the documentary by James Spooner about the disparate experience of African Americans whose passion for punk music has drawn them in one way or another into the greater punk/hardcore community.
The festival includes a film series screened at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) that will showcase, among others, James Spooner's new movie White Lies (at which Spooner will be present for Q&A), “Gloria Rolando's Eyes of the Rainbow (1997), John Valadez's Passin' It On (1992), Newsreel Collective shorts, and an illustrated lecture by Panther historian Roz Payne.”
MUSIC PERFORMANCES:
JUNE
29 ELLUL, CUTLERY, BEAR IN WOLF FUR — BAMCAFE
30 TIOMBE LOCKHART, MIGHTY FINE, SWIVEL — BAMCAFE
JULY
01 AFRO-PUNK BLOCK PARTY: THE DUSTBIN BROTHERS, NO SURRENDER, RICH MEDINA — CLINTON AVENUE BETWEEN MYRTLE AND WILLOUGHBY 12-5PM
05 CX KIDTRONIK, GAME REBELLION, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, THE OBJEX — SOUTHPAW
06 SUFFRAJETT, APES, PHILMORE BROWNE, DRUG STORE COWBOYS — SOUTHPAW
07 DJ KING COLE, THE SMYRK, DJ CX KIDTRONIK, DRAGONS OF ZYNTH, DJ CX KIDTRONIK, THE EXIT — BROOKLYN MUSEUM 6-11PM
Full listings for the event can be found here.
