Summer 'In The Black Fantastic' southbankcentre all set to stage an extraordinary season of black art and culture events
, featuring outdoor art, music, literature, poetry and performance, as well as free performance and music.is a site-wide celebration that takes a deep dive into new ideas and expressions of black art and popular culture.The summer events are inspired by the latest Hayward Gallery exhibition, In the Black Fantastic, curated by writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun .
Through myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and Afrofuturism, artists recontextualise the past and invoke a future where blackness thrives. Then later that evening experience poetry inspired by myth, fantasy and Afrofuturism with top-notch hip-hop. On Saturday, July 16, The Jazz Cafe and the Southbank Centre present Jazz Legends, a pantheon of cosmic and spiritual jazz musicians, including Sun Ra Arkestra, Norman Connors, Jean Carne and Gary Bartz.
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