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Open House: FutureLands
March 15 @ 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Join Highlander and Future Front for Futurelands.
For one day only on March 15, while Austin celebrates SXSW, Highlander will take over The Future Front House with all-day sessions, exploring the intersections of storytelling, movement-building and the artistic, cultural and creative mycelium of southern people’s struggles for justice and democracy.
From an experiential pop-up library (straight from Highlander’s archives in Tennessee) to an evening film screening and panel discussion, expect conversations among femme and queer artists, organizers and friends that invite us all to imagine the future.
The event is free, but an RSVP is required.
Schedule of events:
Noon – Unearthing: A Youth-Led Circle – Led by youth, this morning workshop at The Future Front House will candidly explore our dreams for the future through the lens of young organizers in Highlander’s Seeds of Fire Program.
Since 1932, Highlander Center has played a pivotal role in southern people’s struggles for justice and democracy. The organization’s Seeds of Fire program aims to increase intergenerational organizing.
2pm – What is the recipe for culture? A workshop with Jenae Taylor – Join us in skilling up in Highlander’s Cultural Organizing Methodology. Led by Jenae Taylor, you’ll share space with community members who are actively practicing its frameworks. Together, we’ll ask: “What is the recipe for culture in this time?” and “What has been catalyzed since, using these tools?”
Highlander’s methodologies have advanced the Civil Rights Movement and environmental, economic & justice organizing across decades.
6:30pm – A Place Of Rage: Film Screening & Panel Discussion – Join Highlander for a screening of A PLACE OF RAGE, an award-winning film by Pratibha Parmar. Featuring rare interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan & Alice Walker, the film explores how women like Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society and the world.
Following the screening, Eden Hakimzadeh and Breya Johnson will guide us through a discussion about the film, with a focus on the prescient warnings issued by June Jordan’s fearless embrace of the Palestinian cause as her own.
About the Highlander Center:
HIGHLANDER IS THE MOVEMENT SCHOOL TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MOVEMENT LEADERS.
Rooted in Southern Appalachia, and grounded in a 90-year practice of participatory research and popular education, we incubate and develop the movements that drive us from the world we inherited to the one we deserve.
We are a team of movement veterans, organizers, researchers, educators, and artists activating diverse voices across the South, the nation, and around the world to lead winning movements. Learn more at highlandercenter.org.