#BSAM2016 was good!! #BSAMtoronto2016 was great!! #BSAMphilly2016 was OUTSTANDING!! #MECCAcon2016 SLAPPPPPPPED!! NEXT UP:: #BSAMtexas2017 ! Feb 18th, Prairie View A&M University! Register TODAY!! http://BSAMtexas2017.eventbrite.com http://BlackSpecualativeArtsMovement.wordpress.com [email protected] / @BSAMconvention [email protected] 313- 451- 0297 - - - - - - - - - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 29, 2016 Contact: Maia "CROWN" Williams Black Speculative Arts Movement Co-founder, Executive Assistant (313) 451-0297, [email protected] #BSAMtexas2017 Prairie View A&M University February 18, 2017 Prairie View, Texas - Black Speculative Arts Movement, aka BsaM, is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, and arts convention held at multiple colleges and universities thruought the United States. Black Speculative Arts Movement is a loose umbrella term represented for different positions or basis of inquiry: Afrofuturism, Astro Blackness, Afro-Surrealism, Ethno Gothic, Black Digital Humanities, Black (Afro-future female or African Centered) Science Fiction, The Black Fantastic, Magical Realism, and The Esoteric. Our annual conventions, co-founded by associate professor and chair of the Humanities department at Harris-Stowe State University, Reynaldo Anderson, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts - MECCA, Maia Crown Williams, will include vending from a vast amount of afrofuturism, comics, art, and artisan creators and vendors, live performances, a full international film festival via MECCAcon, seminars, classes, hand on workshops, plays, and much more. Students are also welcome to submit proposals to participate as well. ----- ARTIST ALLEY/ VENDORS MULTIPLE PANELS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, LECTURES MECCAcon International Film Festival 2017 Book Readings Book Signings at local comic shops, bookstores Art instillation Event nights and MORE!! Our official program for #BSAMtexas 2017 is now being lined up. If you are interested in moderating a panel, workshop, and/or lecture, please contact us today. (at Prairie View A&M University)