Afrofuturism Week 2025
Venue
Multiple Locations
January 16 @ 12:00 pm – January 30 @ 4:00 pm
Afrofuturism Week will be held at various locations on and off campus
Join us for Afrofuturism Week 2025! This fifteen-day series will celebrate Black diasporic culture, history and alternate futures through art, film, music, fashion, and dialogue.
Our theme for 2025 is ‘Furious Joy,’ inspired by Alice Walker’s book, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing.
Brought to you by the Center For Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship and various community and campus partners.
Afrofuturism Week 2025 Events
Afrofuturism & Dr. King’s Vision for America: Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Hasan Jefferies
January 16 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Pugh Hall on UF campus
FREE
Cirque Kalabante
January 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
***Admission Required. See UFPA Box Office for details
Zora Neale Hurston Panel Discussion
January 22 at 6:00 p.m.
UF Institute of Black Culture
FREE
Art Exhibition and Gallery Reception: Furious Joy – Our Pleasure Despite All
January 24 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Gainesville Fine Arts Association
FREE
Afrofuturism Films Watch Party
January 28 at 6:00 p.m.
Santa Fe Blount Center
FREE
Afrofuturism Celebration at Art After Dark
January 30 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Harn Museum of Art
FREE
