LOVING ROOM is honored to join Black Cinema Collective for Black Sonic Evolutions 2023 in celebration of June as both BLACK MUSIC MONTH + JUNETEENTH! BCC's annual programming recognizes Black Music Month and AfroDiasporic sonic contributions to the world. 

This year, Black Cinema Collective inaugurates a new series of music documentary screenings at Northwest Film Forum. Their film selections offer Black liberation histories and celebrate the artists who have given us enduring cultural soundtracks for powerful social and political change.  BCC has partnered with LOVING ROOM: diaspora books + salon, for this curated reading list to complement their program this year.  

Black musicians and singers throughout the African Diaspora have gifted us lyrical and sonic inspiration that have ignited independence movements, evolutionary civil and human rights, revolutionary protests and sit-ins, organizational + mutual aid, cultural belonging, ancestral memory, upliftment, and complex stories of love and sexuality.

Black Sonic Evolution acts as celebratory learning, for us to broaden our knowledge of how African and Afrodiasporic cultures have influenced the world at large, through Reggae, Hip Hop, Country, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz, Afrobeats, the roots of Rock n’ Roll, Funk, Punk, Trip Hop, and more.

The 2023 featured film for Black Sonic Evolutions is Finding Fela (2014, 120 minutes) which screens at Northwest Film Forum FRIDAY June 16th through Sunday June 18th. (TICKETS HERE)

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Thanks to NWFF Artistic Director Rana San and team for helping to organize this program. 

Curated by Berette S Macaulay

Media Design by jas Moultrie