A Day of Speculative Prayer: Love, Grief, and Fugitivity

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Visiting Humphrey Distinguished Professor

Friday, April 3, 12:00-7:00 p.m.
Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Avenue

Friday, April 3, 7:00-9:00pm
John B. Davis Auditorium, Macalester College

Itinerary

All are welcome to attend our event this Friday: A Day of Speculative Prayer: Love, Grief, and Fugitivity—featuring Visiting Humphrey Distinguished Professor, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. 

It will be a fantastic opportunity to immerse in American Studies!

This day-long public gathering will feature art, conversation, poetry, film, and ceremony. Participants will include writers, artists, a dancer, a drummer, and two Zen priests! 

You are welcome to come and go as you like throughout the day.

The event will begin at noon with lunch and tea at the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave, just west of Hidden River Middle School.

1:00pm – Opening remarks from Dr. Bayo Akomolafe and panel discussion

4:45pm – Ceremony of Speculative Prayer and Fugitive Grief

6:00pm – Dinner

Participate in the Rhizomatic Response and Exploration activities throughout the day:

–       Grief Room held by professional grief tenders

–       Haiku exchange

–       Wind phones to speak with the ancestors (Japanese “kaze no denwa”)

–       Art exchange space (with commissioned prints)

–       Self-directed ecology/migration walk

At 7:00pm, we move to John B. Davis Auditorium in the Campus Center for segments of the soon-to-be-released Three Black Men, a feature documentary tracing the transatlantic slave trade in reverse. Through this documentary, three visionaries are “retracing the roots of black capture, going back to the place of no return, turning it on its head, and saying we are here.”

This is a free event, but please register on our Eventbrite page so we know how many people are attending. Please share with anyone who might be interested!