Wednesdays, 5–8PM
August 27 at Huntington Library: 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108
September 3 at FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
September 10 at FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
$60 — 20% off for FCCW Community
Whether we are being asked to imagine a world without prisons, police brutality, or borders, our communities – of queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, working class, immigrants, people with disabilities – have always been at the forefront of world building. But we are rarely seen as futurists, even though we continue to rebuild worlds, sometimes without any other choice, to initiate our own cycles of freedom.
The Speculative Futures Seminar Series is a 3-part skills building workshop for artists, storytellers, and creatives interested in building visions of the future. Led by artist and educator, Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, the series examines elements of science fiction, social justice, and speculative object-making as tools that can be used by any creative. By the end of the series, participants will walk away with a diverse set of creative outputs (digital, print, conceptual work, etc) that help us dream beyond moments of crisis and bring us closer to worlds we want.
Level Ground is offering FCCW community 20% off this series at check-out with the code: LG+FCCW
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Bianca Nozaki-Nasser is a Japanese-Lebanese-Syrian interdisciplinary artist. She is the founder of Practicing Futures, a creative lab that fosters community, education, and collaborative practice to reclaim, reimagine, and shape the futures we want to see.
Bianca works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the future. Her work is rooted in social practice and has spanned across immersive audio video installations, speculative objects, and community engagement programs. She invites collective wrecking and reckoning, exploring the tension between building new worlds and redecorating old ones.
Bianca holds a Masters degree in Media Design Practice from the Art Center College of Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Southern California . They have exhibited their work across the United States and participated in several artist residencies including the Level Ground Residency Program in Los Angeles and Activation in New York. Additionally, they have co-founded and organized with artist and worker-led collectives committed to radical pedagogy and collective liberation.
Over the last ten years, Bianca has worked across industries developing strategic storytelling, creative interventions, and community power for clients and collaborators like Sundance, UNICEF Innovation, Asian American Documentary Network, and The California Endowment. During her five year tenure as 18 Million Rising’s inaugural Creative Director, Bianca built the visual identity that established the organization as a digital leader in progressive Asian American organizing. Previously, she co-founded a med-tech platform for patient generated health data management.
Bianca currently resides in Los Angeles and is the Director of Storytelling at Emergent Fund, a rapid response resource fund that supports emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color. In addition to her creative practice, Bianca is also an assistant professor and teaches interdisciplinary studios and intensives on design, futurism, and political education.