nami rose
as producer
Black Bar Social (coming May 2024) | Dorothy Chandler Pavillion. Los Angeles, CA
is a monthly immersive experience and speakeasy-style social gathering designed to spark public imagination and start conversations about the future of Los Angeles. The price of admission is simply to receive a provocation from the provocateur of the evening. An artist, culture maker, or community partner will design a creative immersive experience for attendees that should give them a peek at the cutting-edge innovations of our time in science, technology, emergent culture, social movements, and the possibility of greater well-being. It is a place to socialize big ideas and, in some cases, make decisions and build relationships that bring those ideas to life in Los Angeles.Resident artists and the focus of their work:
- Alex Rivera: the future of immigration, work and AI technology in relation to Latines communities
- TecLeimert with Ben Caldwell: the future of society through a perspective of Black culture and the practices in the book KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
- Kahlil Joseph: Black culture, identity, and history in America and of the diaspora
- Sultan Sheriff: the relationship between ancestors and their progeny
- Lauren Lee McCarthy: can AI do a better job than a human at helping us to be human?
- Mashinka Firunt: can AI divine our future?
Nami developed the program in collaboration with transmedia producer Kamal Sinclair, Sr. Director of Digital Innovation at the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles, as Digital Innovation Fellow at the institution.