Believe the Hype: Poetics of Propaganda | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

On Friday, June 16th Believe the Hype culminates in an expansive night of exploration, conversation, intellectual exchange and art performance.

• 7:30 pm – Doors Open
• 8:00 pm – The Poetics of Propaganda ft. Poets Reading the News – Poets and thinkers will start to unravel the night’s themes of propaganda, the Internet and new activism.
• 8:45 pm -Critical Data Mining: A Community Conversation – The crowd breaks into facilitated discussions at stations throughout the room. It’s a chance to educate each other, find solutions, and debate. This culminates back into a group discussion.
• 9:30 pm – Sin Adjetivo Dance Performance – Amelia Uzategui Bonilla will enact a language without adjective — without description, without seduction, without artifice — through her dance.

Free but an RSVP is required.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.