BLACK to the FUTURE: Science Fiction & Fantasy by Black Authors
A Community Reading Event
February 09, 2025
1:00p to 3:00p
Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609
69 Beekman Street,
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Our Lodge Foundation’s *”Black to the Future” project is introducing our Saratoga Springs’ community to the thriving literary field of richly diverse worlds and alternate realities penned by Black science fiction and fantasy writers.
Our final “Community Read” discussion, facilitated by Skidmore dancer/ creative Davin Arzu (’27), will be about Ralph Ellison’s “INVISIBLE MAN.” Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.
SYNOPSIS: In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood,” before retreating amid violence and confusion.
Light refreshments provided.
Attendance is FREE, however …
… Please Register with your name + contact info: OurLodgeFoundation@gmail.com
*NOTE: Participants are responsible for obtaining a copy of the book.
*Saratoga Arts made this project possible through the Community Regrant Program, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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Lezlie Dana, Coordinator
Cell: (518) 852-3859
Email: OurLodgeFoundation@gmail.com