May 9

Music Performance & DJ set

Amid musings on speculative cartography that welcomes repair and new configurations of abundance, we still exist in the reality of extractive capitalism

In a world of rapidly reducing attention spans, the journal persists as a sumptuous, curated feast of the best new voices in literature and visual art.

Science journalist Marta Peirano and sci-fi writer Mahmud El Sayed offer a temperature check on the rapidly-evolving capabilities of tech and AI.

Burundian theater performer and playwright Laura Sheïlla Inangoma’s Sisters of the East (Soeurs de l’Est) is a monologue by Hoda, a young Sudanese woman imprisoned in a Khartoum prison.

David Maillu is a prolific Kenyan known for his enthralling novels dating from the 1970s. He has written over 60 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Kikamba, English, and Kiswahili.

Don’t miss this special spotlight on award-winning short fiction writers from across the globe whose dedication to the craft is sure to encourage the next generation of writers.

In the spirit of Prof. Wangari Maathai’s hummingbird analogy that viewed no act in the face of insurmountable odds as small or insignificant

Experts in world-building and weaving magic from the everyday and gravitas from the absurd, Congolese author and academic, Alain Mabanckou and