FutureLands ✰✰✰
PRESENTED BY HIGHLANDER CENTER
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 DAY’S SCHEDULE
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Venture into The Future Front House at any point throughout the day to explore our latest art show, “Madly Involved,” as well as a curated installation of books and materials from Highlander Center’s library in Tennessee.
The Septima Clark Learning Center houses the Harry Lasker Library, Highlander’s archives and the org’s radical bookstore. This installation will transport attendees to that space with selections from Highlander’s canon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
how to attend
This event is free. RSVPs are required.
ENTER A price for optional donation:
*If you are a Future Front member, this event is free and priority access for you and your guests. Please access your membership at members.futurefronttexas.org or futurefrontmembership.squarespace.com for more details.
PREPARE YOUR VISIT TO THE FUTURE FRONT HOUSE.
The Future Front House is located at 1900 E. 12th Street within the historic East 12th Street District.
WHERE TO PARK: The Future Front House has a large paid parking lot across the street and is directly accessible by bus line. There’s also free parking up and down the street and in surrounding neighborhoods. Carpool, if you can!
WHAT TO DO: The Future Front House is located within the historic East 12th Street District, which is home to many other creative spaces and businesses, as well as organizations like Six Square. Explore the District while you’re around.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES — ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Si necesita traducción al español para participar en este evento, envíenos un correo electrónico a hello@futurefronttexas.org.
IMPORTANT COMMUNITY NOTES + GUIDELINES —
All Future Front staff, volunteers and guests will be required to practice mutual respect, as well as demonstrate an alignment with Future Front’s guidelines and values: futurefronttexas.org/values.
All Future Front sessions are currently held online, outdoors or in open-air spaces where quality air flow is possible, ADA compliance is prioritized and assisted mobility devices can be utilized.
All Future Front sessions follow capacity limits to reduce crowding of any kind.
At Future Front events, all guests are expected to follow Austin-local health and safety guidelines for gatherings, as well as practice consideration with the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and any other legal, mind-altering substances.
Tobacco use and electronic smoking device use are not permitted at any time within Future Front properties and event spaces at least 15 ft from entrances, exits, operational windows, or ventilation system intake vents.
Littering of tobacco-related products on the grounds or parking lots is also prohibited.
GOT QUESTIONS? Shoot us a note at hello@futurefronttexas.org. We're happy to help and will get back to you!
behind 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.
behind FUTURE FRONT
Homegrown in Austin, Future Front is an award-winning culture space and exhibition series—with women and LGBTQ+ creatives at the front.
As an arts and culture nonprofit, we produce two community-led exhibitions, The Front Market and The Front Festival. Beyond our flagship showcases, we host year-round shows and workshops at our creative space in historic East Austin, welcoming 20,000+ visitors per year.
Everybody and every body are welcome. Learn more at futurefronttexas.org.
THE FUTURE FRONT HOUSE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, TITO’S HANDMADE VODKA, TOPO CHICO, AS WELL AS FUTURE FRONT’S DONORS AND MEMBERS. THANK YOU!