Friday, August 21st, 6-9pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, August 22nd, 4pm, Reading and Performance
Sunday, August 23rd, 4pm, Panel Discussion
The Tenth Zine's second installment of their Americana Issue is an exploration of the Black Gay American terrain and psyche. It's meant to invoke individualism and it's a manifestation of the Black Gay pioneering spirit. It's like Jimi Hendix's Star Spangled Banner or Glenn Ligon's America -- part inversion, part homage, all anecdote for self-discovery...
Friday, August 21st, 6-9pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, August 22nd, 4pm, Reading and Performance
Sunday, August 23rd, 4pm, Panel Discussion
The Tenth Zine's second installment of their Americana Issue is an exploration of the Black Gay American terrain and psyche. It's meant to invoke individualism and it's a manifestation of the Black Gay pioneering spirit. It's like Jimi Hendix's Star Spangled Banner or Glenn Ligon's America -- part inversion, part homage, all anecdote for self-discovery and self-preservation. It's the boys of The Tenth hitting the road and letting rebellion prevail over boredom while on a 5,000-mile journey to collaborate with over 100 of the country's most dynamic Black LGBT artists and thinkers and makers. From New Hampshire to Seattle, ideas from INDUSTRY to HOLLYWOOD are explored though essays, interviews, writings and a full range of visual arts -- and in the process, the editors of The Tenth have developed an authentic epistemology of Black/Gay/Queer America in 2015 through the eyes of its most dreamy and dreaming inhabitants, all while radically asserting that they too, have just as much of a right to re-color the "collective American consciousness" as anyone else.
Image: Idris & Tony, "Ameriqa" 2014, Digital Photograph, size is variable. Courtesy the artists.