AFROPUNK Presents AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN, a Celebration of the Future of Black Life, Creativity, Community & Expression Reimagined, Featuring a Special Performance From Erykah Badu, From August 23-24, 2024
July 19 2024 - 10:12AM
Business Wire
AFROPUNK, the global movement exploring all aspects of
Black culture around the country and across the world, returns home
to Brooklyn this summer for AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN.
This highly anticipated event will take place from August
23-24, 2024 at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, in
partnership with BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the longest running free
performing arts festival. The two-day event will be an immersive
experience that reimagines the future of Black life, creativity,
community, and expression as a lead up to AFROPUNK’s 20th
anniversary that will take place in 2025.
This year’s event will feature a general admission ticket
structure, reinforcing the theme of an inclusive future alongside
Erykah Badu, who will make her return as a headliner to the
AFROPUNK stage for the first time since 2018. Additional performers
& programming to be announced.
AFROPUNK continues to explore the diasporic spectrum of
Blackness while actively redefining the modern cultural experience,
celebrating life, music, food and culture, offering a safe haven
for all attendees to show up who they are and as they are.
At AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN, festivalgoers will experience a
space where the future of Black life, creativity, community and
expression are reimagined. BLKTOPIA is the manifestation of an
inclusive and intentional tomorrow, centered around a Black
perspective, embodying the collective 'future of' and our
unapologetic 'freedom to.'
Tickets to AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN are now available to AFROPUNK
email subscribers at a reduced price and are accessible through an
exclusive pre-sale link until 2 PM ET on Saturday, July 20th.
Tickets will be available for non-subscribers to purchase beginning
Saturday, July 20th at 3 PM ET on Ticketmaster.com. Stay tuned for
all official updates and announcements surrounding this summer’s
event on social at @AFROPUNK on X, Facebook, Instagram, and
YouTube.
ABOUT AFROPUNK
AFROPUNK is an integrated media platform and global music event
platform giving voice to the unwritten, unwelcome and unseen.
AFROPUNK is redefining the modern multicultural experience through
its mission to unleash freedom of expression and to honor the power
of individuality while strengthening our community. AFROPUNK
creates an anchor for its growing audience of multicultural youth
through its annual AFROPUNK BROOKLYN event and other events in
Miami, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Atlanta, Johannesburg and
beyond, while continually enhancing engagement and promoting
conversation through content, commerce, and community.
AFROPUNK is devoted to creating safe spaces for the expression
of Black liberation and a Black Future where we love ourselves and
each other without preconception. The AFROPUNK tenets serve as a
North Star and remind people to check themselves, ego, and each
other when we enter the shared spaces.
ABOUT ESSENCE VENTURES
A multi-faceted ecosystem that uplifts the Global Black
experience through frictionless, borderless economic advancements
at the intersection of community and culture, ESSENCE Ventures is a
member of the Sundial Group of Companies and is the parent company
for ESSENCE Communications, Inc., AFROPUNK, Beautycon and Essence
Studios.
ABOUT BRIC
BRIC is a leading arts and media institution anchored in
Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and
performing arts, media, and civic action. For over forty years,
BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by
presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media
makers. As a creative catalyst for their community, BRIC ignites
learning in people of all ages and centralizes diverse voices that
take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC builds Brooklyn’s
creative future.
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