Inside Brooklyn's Black Future Festival, Where Children Imagine The Next 100 Years Of Black History

"From February 15 through February 21, the museum will host its annual Black Future Festival, a weeklong slate of performances, workshops, and hands-on programs designed to give children and families space to imagine the next century of Black creativity, resilience, and innovation. The festival runs during New York City public schools' midwinter recess and fills the museum's galleries with movement, sound, and art-making."

"This year's theme, "Black Resilience: Growing in Tough Terrain," anchors the programming in stories of adaptation and creativity across the African diaspora. Guest artists and educators lead sessions that draw connections between history and the present, encouraging young participants to see themselves as active shapers of what comes next. Brooklyn Children's Museum partnered with guest curator Kendra J. Ross and STooPS Art & Community, a Bed-Stuy-based outdoor arts organization known for block parties, classes, and creative projects in unconventional spaces."

"Children will move between hip-hop and house dance sessions, Afrofuturistic collage workshops, printmaking studios, yoga classes and music labs, building projects that center identity and imagination. The schedule includes "Silver Linings: Triumph of Loss," a multidisciplinary dance work by KJB Works that explores grief through movement and celebration; block printing sessions that culminate in a collective mural; Afrofuturistic collage-making inspired by film and music; and vision board workshops that use the symbolism of roots and trees to explore growth and possibility."

Brooklyn Children's Museum will host the Black Future Festival from February 15 through February 21 during New York City public schools' midwinter recess. Programming centers the theme "Black Resilience: Growing in Tough Terrain" and emphasizes adaptation, creativity, and identity across the African diaspora. Activities include hip-hop and house dance, Afrofuturistic collage, printmaking studios, yoga, music labs, and collaborative building projects that foreground imagination and self-expression. Guest curator Kendra J. Ross and STooPS Art & Community partner on the festival. Featured events include KJB Works' "Silver Linings: Triumph of Loss," block printing that yields a collective mural, and vision board workshops.

Read at Brooklyn, NY Patch