KIN: A Festival
of memory
and imagination

Join us for the Closing Celebration of KIN: A Festival of Memory and Imagination. Take advantage of your last chance to experience the exhibition. We will have DJ sets by Akeema-Zane and DJ mOma and food by Aunts et Uncles. We would love for you to come through and be in community with us one last time!

Join us on our closing day to celebrate the launch of For Those Who Come After with A Baldwin Conversation, a special talk on Baldwin's life and work featuring:​Nicholas Boggs, Author of Baldwin: A Love Story​Frank Leon Roberts, Professor, Amherst College & Podcast Co-Host, Finding James Baldwin: The Magpie Years.​Introduction by idris brewster, founder of Kinfolk Tech

​During this session, artist Jazsalyn will discuss Ancestral Intelligence and alternative AI.​As a part of Jazsalyn's research-based art practice, she defines Ancestral Intelligence as the earliest forms of knowledge systems, philosophies, and traditions passed down from generation to generation within indigenous groups, their descendants, and diasporic communities. ​Jazsalyn will expand on her Ancestral Intelligence projects: REIMAGINE Prototype, an algorithmic study refiguring lost indigenous and extraterrestrial memory, and Natal Dimension, a cinematic game that travels across pre-colonial Africa to recover traces of Ancestral Intelligence.​Following the discussion, attendees will play Warpmode, a collaborative world-building toolkit created by the artist. The toolkit explores speculative Black Metatheories: afrofuturism, afronowism, afrovoidism, and afropocalypse. Select cards inside the kit will prompt attendees to imagine alternative realities informed by Ancestral Intelligence.

A Baldwin-inspired communal ritual + storytelling circle through the myth, memory, and message of MAVIS — the typewriter that remembers. This gathering invites community members into a ritual writing and reflection space anchored by MAVIS — a reimagined version of James Baldwin’s Olympia SM7 typewriter. Through her keys, we explore portals of ancestral wisdom, creative resistance, and intergenerational truth-telling.

In this workshop, we’ll explore how herbs serve as portals to ancestral memory and guidance within Caribbean and African diasporic traditions. Together we’ll learn the spiritual and healing properties of select plants, then engage in a guided meditation to connect with their wisdom. The session will close with a simple collective ritual, offering herbs, water, and prayer to honor the ancestors who walk with us. This gathering blends teaching, practice, and remembrance—an opportunity to root into the medicine of the plants while opening space for connection with lineage.

Join us on Zoom Saturday, November 1, at 11am ET for a panel discussion with Kinfolk Tech Community Memory Fellow Kleaver Cruz and guest panelists—Dr. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Dash Harris, Jaimee Swift, and Joyce Prado.​This discussion will bring together key thinkers and cultural workers from Brazil and the broader African diaspora, panelist will reflect on the impactful work and legacy of one of the 20th century’s most vital voices, Afro‑Brazilian feminist and activist Lélia de Almeida Gonzalez, and her resonance in the present moment.