Tag: Science Fiction

• Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories

  

  When artists leave us too soon we are reminded of their greatness in the items they left behind.  Musicians have libraries of unreleased tracks or compositions, photographers leave behind negatives, contact sheets and undeveloped film, painters have hidden canvases or incomplete work and writers leave behind their words—ideas that weren’t fully developed, concepts that never came to…

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  April 14, 2017

  black history, Museums, Uncategorized, writing

  Authors, Black Writers, Los Angeles, Octavia Butler, Pasadena, Science Fiction, The Huntington Library, writing

• “So Be It, See To It.”

  

  Yesterday’s post on Radio Imagination at the Armory Center for the Arts focused on one artist’s creative interpretation of Octavia Butler’s famous novels, Kindred.  The show also featured digital snapshots of Butler’s papers currently cataloged at the Huntington Library in Pasadena.  Manuscripts, character sketches, childhood stories, and journal entries all provide us with an expositive look into Butler’s creative process including…

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  January 7, 2017

  Art, Los Angeles, Museums, Uncategorized, writing

  Armory Center for the Arts, Clockshop, Octavia Butler, Radio Imagination, Science Fiction

• Octavia Butler’s Radio Imagination

  

  One of the best books I read in 2016 was Kindred by Octavia Butler and one of the most powerful essays I read in 2016 was “Broken Defaced and Unseen: the Hidden Black Female Figures of Western Art”, by Robin Coste Lewis.  One work explored time travel, slavery and the black female body while the other takes the…

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  January 6, 2017

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, black history, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, writing

  Cauleen Smith, Clockshop, Kindred, Octavia Butler, Robin Coste Lewis, Science Fiction, the Armory Center for the Arts, writing