3:00 PM

Participant Arrival @ Estancia

5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Check-In

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dinner @ Estancia

Welcome ~ Moya Bailey (she/her) & Ayana Jamieson (she/her)

Preparations for tomorrow ~ Ruby Hsu (she/her)

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast @ Estancia [Mustangs and Burros Room]

8:45 AM to 9:00 AM

Uber: Estancia to New Children’s Museum (21 minute drive)

9:30 AM to 5:00 PM New Children’s Museum [Artopia]

Icebreaker / Daylong Art Activations

9:30 AM to 10:00 AM

Check-In / Break

10:00 AM to 10:15 AM

Welcome & Agenda Setting * ~ Moya Bailey, Ayana Jamieson, Shelley Streeby, & facilitator Whitney Peoples (she/her)

10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Session 1 - The Future Is Present/The Art of World Building with Octavia E. Butler (Writing Workshop)

~ Ola Ronke Akinmowo (she/her)

11:00 AM to 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM to 12:30 PM

Session 2 - Ready for the Marvelous: Freedom Dreaming with Surrealist Poetry Games (Workshop)

~ Kemi Alabi (they/them)

12:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Lunch & Refreshments

(tour of NCM and sharing from Session 1 and 2 workshops)

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

Session 3 - Thinking With Heat: Black Explosivity, Material Transformation, and Measurements Toward the Otherwise

~ Angel Edwards (they/them)

3:00 PM to 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM to 4:00 PM

Session 4 - Seeding the Futures We Desire (Workshop)

~ Yoko Akili Robinson (he/they)

4:00 PM to 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 PM to 5:00 PM

Closing Circle *

Day 1 Lessons Reflection

~ Facilitated by Whitney Peoples

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Ticketed Reception (registration via google form)

5:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Check-In

5:30PM

Welcome and Introductions

~ Shelley Streeby, Moya Bailey, and Ayana Jamieson

Science Fiction Creates the Future at the New Children's Museum

~Mithsuca Berry (they/them)

Gab Wyrick (she/her) & Iyari Arteaga (she/her)

Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures Tour

~ Ayana Jamieson

6:45 PM to 7:00 PM

Closing

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Uber: New Children’s Museum to Estancia (21 minutes drive)

7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Free Time & Fellowship @ Estancia

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast @ Estancia

(Mustangs and Burros Room)

Day 1 Recap & Agenda Setting ~ Moya Bailey, Ayana Jamieson, & Whitney Peoples

9:00 AM to 9:15 AM

Departure: Estancia to Institute of the Americas (8-12 minute walk or 3 minutes drive)

9:15AM to 6:00PM

UCSD Institute of the Americas

9:15 AM to 10:00 AM

Check-In / Transition

Light Refreshments

10:00 AM to 11:15 AM

A UCSD Conversation on Environments & Ecologies after Octavia E Butler

Moderator: Shelley Streeby

Speakers:

~ Monique Dixon (she/they), “Octavia E. Butler, the Eaton Fire, and Environmental Racism”

~ Stephanie Martinez (they/them), "From Cali to Pali: Seeding Solidarities and other Feminist Topographies of Relation”

~ Aimee Bahng (she/her) “Octavia's Queer Protean Animacies”

11:15 AM to 12:30 PM

Creative Visions I: Film Screenings and Conversations

Moderator: Curtis Marez (he/him)

~ India Martin (she/her), Out of Focus (6 minutes)

~ Sarah Oberholtzer (they/them), We Call Each Other (14 minutes)

~ Moya Bailey & Jason Walker (he/him), You Just Watch and See (13 minutes)

12:30 PM to 1:00 PM

Boxed Lunches (Provided for Invited Speakers)

1:00 PM to 1:45 PM

Creative Visions II: Fiction

Speakers:

~ Cassandra Jones (she/her), “Therapeutic Imagining: Restorative Fabulation in Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory”

~ Alexis Lothian (she/her), “Queer Fan Fiction and the Politics of Fantasy”

1:45 PM to 2:00 PM

Break

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Keynote

~ Dr. Nicole Rawls (she/her), “Getting Back to Human”

(Q and A facilitated by Moya Bailey)

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Reception/Light Refreshments

3:30 PM to 4:15 PM

Roundtable – “And the Word was Change”

Moderator: Joo Ok Kim (she/her)

Speakers:

~ Nikki High (she/her), Creating Octavia’s Bookshelf

~ Ola Ronke Akinmowo, Free Black Women’s Library

~ Asha Grant (she/her), Free Black Women’s Library LA and Salt Eaters Bookshop

4:15 PM to 5:00 PM

Creating New Spaces, Schooling, and Communities

Moderator: India Pierce-Jackson (she/her)

Speakers:

~ Joseph Cuillier (he/him), “Building The Black Schoolhouse”

~ Mackenzie S. Rector (she/her), “Dreams Realized: Artistic Expression, Environmental Consciousness, and Community Practice at The LOVE Building”

~Manuel Antonio Carrión Lira (he/él)

~Allen Makere (he/him) “Inundation: A Graphic Novel on Adaptation, Regeneration & Abolition - A Visionary Fiction Practice”

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Closing Recap

~ Whitney Peoples

6:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Departure: Institute of the Americas to Estancia

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Dinner @ Estancia