Join us on Saturday, July 26 from 2pm to 4pm for ReVer(b)sions Lab—an interdisciplinary experimental and speculative poetic lab looking at ways of knowing and knowledge-creation from a BIPOC-centered lens. Facilitated by interdisciplinary poet and artist, Sherese Francis, the lab was partially inspired by Aimé Césaire's essay, "Poetry and Knowledge," which explored poetry as an additional/alternative language to scientific language as a tool for understanding the world. This iteration of the lab, "Moving Museum," is a series of workshops and community activations inspired by the work and poetry of Lewis Latimer and as a way to activate the museum and its archives.

Designing Freedom: Blue(s)Prints Workshop

Inspired by Latimer's work as a draftsman, participants will use Latimer's and their own poetry to design different poetic structures, like a cosmogram. We will discuss various poets and artists who use blueprints, poetic designs, and concrete poetry in their work like Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Andre Zachary and Renegade Performance Group, Justin Phillip Reed and the facilitator Sherese Francis.