What will the future look like in 50 years ? How about 1\,000? In this class\, you&rsquo\;ll be given the tools to im agine a new future for your city\, your community\, or your world. What wi ll home look like in the future? What cultures will rise or fall? What cha racters will populate these worlds and what technologies will they create? Speculative fiction allows us to consider how the past gives rise to the future and what the future can tell us about today. In this class presente d by Literary Cleveland instructor Isaiah Hunt we will study passages from speculative and Afrofuturistic works such as Nnedi Okorafor&rsquo\;s BINT I\, generate characters and stories\, and imagine entirely new worlds.
\nIsaiah Hunt was born and raised in Cleveland. An Afrofuturist at hear t\, his favorite writers are Sun Ra\, Daniel Jose Older\, and Nnedi Okoraf or. He is a second-year in Fiction at the NEOMFA Program and a graduate te aching assistant for both Kent State University and the Wick Poetry Center . Isaiah was a spring 2021 Literary Cleveland intern and loves sharing his obsession with storytelling with others.
\nA meeting link will be e mailed to registered participants approximately one hour prior to the star t of the program. Staff will be available for help with connecting to Zoom and technical issues beginning 15 minutes prior to the program. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet connection to join. If you have questions about this program\, please contact Laurie Kincer at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch at 216-382-4880. \;
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