On Saturday, April 29th, at 2:30PM EDT, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics hosts Bayo Akomolafe for “Why We Need Postactivism Today,” an in-person lecture on racial justice, freedom, the future, and an altogether different kind of politics.
The talk will take place in the Sanctuary at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA, to be followed by a Q&A. Tickets are $5 or 5 BerkShares; they may be purchased online using the link below, or by bringing/ mailing BerkShares to the Schumacher Center’s office by April 19th.
Register here.
About the Speaker:
Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of The Emergence Network. An international speaker, teacher, and essayist, Dr. Akomolafe is the author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.
As founder and elder of The Emergence Network, as well as chief host of the online-offline course and festival series We Will Dance with Mountains, Bayo curates an earth-wide project for re-calibrating our ability to respond to civilizational crisis. This is a project framed within a material feminist/ posthumanist/ postactivist ethos and inspired by Yoruba indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art – exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text, and talking with others about how to host a festival of radical silence on a street in London.
Bayo Akomolafe is a recipient of the 2021 New Thought Walden Award, honoring those who use empowering spiritual ideas and philosophy to change lives and make our planet a better place. (Listen to a short clip of a recent interview given by Bayo here.)
This lecture is sponsored by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation.