Afropunk Festival
WHY IT'S HERE
Emerged from 2003 documentary, global chapters across five cities, defining cultural moment of alternative Black culture with music, fashion, and art programming.
Afropunk began as a 2003 documentary by James Spooner about Black participation in punk subculture. The festival emerged from the film's community and has grown into one of the defining cultural moments of alternative Black culture worldwide, with chapters in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Paris, Johannesburg, and London. The Brooklyn flagship takes place each August at Commodore Barry Park and features music spanning punk, rock, hip-hop, R&B, electronic, and experimental, alongside fashion, art installations, and activist programming. Past performers have included Erykah Badu, Bad Brains, Solange, FKA twigs, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar.
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