The ‘Princess of Black Poetry’ Nikki Giovanni and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Fred Moten will bring their genius to Tallahassee for two days of musing about the future of Black artistic expression and activism, including a talk from Moten, a screening of the Sundance-winning GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT at the Challenger Planetarium, and a once-in-a-generation conversation between these luminaries about their work in poetics, film, theory, music, and other art forms inside academe and around the globe over the past six decades.

Thursday, October 10

Fred Moten “a forward thrust of blackness”
3 PM
FSU Main Campus: Conradi Theatre (Williams Building 0123)
631 University Way

Screening of “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
7 PM
Challenger Learning Center Planetarium
200 S. Duval Street
Free registration is required at: https://bit.ly/GOINGTOMARS2024

Friday, October 11

Nikki Giovanni and Fred Moten in Conversation
5:30 PM
FSU Main Campus: Student Union (Ballroom E – 2nd Floor)
75 N. Woodward Ave.

All events are free and open to the public and accessible.

These events are co-sponsored by Florida State University’s Civil Rights Institute and Department of English with additional support from the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, FSU’s African American Studies Program, and the Frances Cushing Ervin Chair in American Literature.

Please reach out to event organizers and Assistant Professors of English Alison Sperling  and L. Lamar Wilson  if you are interested in collaborating or for more information.

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