Afropunk

Going through life as a minority, one becomes accustomed to feeling like an outsider, of never quite fitting in. So much so, that my first time going to Afropunk I was immediately struck with the feeling of being at home. It was an unfamiliar feeling to have. To feel included entirely and unjudged. I sat in the grass as people danced around me simply celebrating their blackness. Their beautiful black bodies writhing to the music blasting over the speakers as puffs of smoke filled the air. AFROPUNK is a gathering place to listen, learn and play, as the community comes together to see and be seen, to speak loudly and proudly, to resist.

Festival-goers are privy to a one-of-kind experience including art, fasan, biadh agus luchd-ciùird ionadail a’ reic am bathar. Le làthaireachd air feadh an t-saoghail bho Paris gu Johannesburg agus Lunnainn, Bidh AFROPUNK a’ tilleadh gu a freumhan gach bliadhna nuair a nì e a slighe gu Pàirc Commodore Barry ann am Brooklyn.
B’ e cuspair na bliadhna-sa The People Resist, teachdaireachd a tha “a’ toirt còmhla ideòlas AFROPUNK agus na daoine a tha a’ toirt taic dha, an aghaidh an fheadhainn a tha a 'strì ri fòirneart.” Am measg nan cinn bha Erykah Badu, Tyler, An Cruithear, Miguel agus Janelle Monáe. Thug Fantastic Negrito agus Jacob Banks cuideachd taisbeanaidhean sònraichte.
Afropunk, an comharrachadh bliadhnail mar thaic do aonachd tro cheòl, Ealain, dannsa, agus tha biadh a' pearsanachadh cumhachd an t-sluaigh mar chomh-chruinneachadh.