Description
Black Futures are not singular, fixed, or predetermined. They are plural, emergent, and deeply shaped by history, culture, place, and imagination. Reimagining Black Futures is part of Tamarack Institute’s Black Futures Month programming.
This webinar invites participants into a generative conversation about how Black communities across Canada are already imagining, prototyping, and living into future possibilities, and how Afrofuturism can serve as both a method and a mindset for systems change that resists colonial rigidity and centres Black joy, creativity, and complexity.
Together, we will explore how to move beyond deficit-based narratives and instead cultivate strengths-based approaches that celebrate Blackness in both ordinary and extraordinary settings. Panellists will reflect on the importance of allowing futures to emerge without prescribing them, while remaining grounded in care, belonging, and relational accountability.
The first hour will feature a moderated panel conversation, followed by 30 minutes of generative dialogue with participants.
Participants Will Explore
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What it means to speak about Black Futures in the plural, and why this matters for equity and systems change
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How Afrofuturism can support decolonial, emancipatory approaches to imagining the future.
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Ways to avoid reproducing harm or colonization when working with future-oriented narratives.
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How place-based futures work can strengthen belonging, agency, and collective imagination.
Speakers
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Sa’adatu Usman. CEO, Global Citizen Incorporated
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Julius Lindsay. Co-Lead, The Prismatic Project
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Treno Morton. Founder & President, North End Halifax (New Roots) Community Land Trust
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Daren Okafo. Consulting Director of Collective Leadership
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Rochelle Ignacio. Director, Equity, Anti-Racism and Reconciliation
