FUTURE COLOR
On a night when two diasporas mark their own histories of refusal, we gather…
Accented Projects present
FUTURE COLOR
A Black x Asian Futurists Gathering
June 20, 2026 · Box of Moonlight · Bed-Stuy/Bushwick
Future Color is a one-night gathering that holds two diasporas in the same room. Inside a 4,300 sq ft warehouse in Bed-Stuy, we’re building an evening that moves between performance film, conversation, dance battle, and rap. All in honor of the long, often-forgotten lineage of Black and Asian solidarity.
The night includes:
A performance film screening: Smuggling Back Through Play: Nostalgia, Capital, and the Postcolonial Stage
A Q&A with the artists
A 7 to smoke dance battle open cypher, judged rounds, full-room energy.
A live rap performance to close the night
Programming co-hosted with Accent & JMacDonough, in collaboration with Still Moving Co. and other community partners.
Why this date
June 20, 2026, holds two histories of refusal on the same day.
It’s Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had legally declared it. Freedom delayed, then claimed, then carried forward through red foods, family gatherings, and over a century and a half of Black memory.
It’s also Duanwu (端午节), the ancient Chinese holiday remembering the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 278 BCE in protest of a corrupt state. Villagers raced boats out to find his body and dropped zongzi into the water so the fish would not eat him. Two thousand years later, the dragon boats still row.
Both holidays insist that grief and joy can sit on the same day. Both keep history alive through food, gathering, and the body’s memory. Future Color doesn’t collapse them-it lets them share a room.
The lineage
The political and cultural conversation between Black and Asian communities is older and deeper than the news cycle suggests. From the 1955 Bandung Conference, where newly independent African and Asian nations first organized around shared liberation, to Yuri Kochiyama holding Malcolm X in the Audubon Ballroom, to Fred Ho’s Afro-Asian jazz, to the everyday solidarities lived out across Brooklyn blocks. There’s a tradition here. Future Color is one night inside that tradition.
Solidarity is a room. Come build it with us.
The room
Box of Moonlight is a 4,300 sq ft warehouse space at the edge of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick. A space the night gets to take over.
Dress code: Ancestral Futurism. Wear your lineage. Bring your tomorrow.
Details
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Time: 8-11:30pm
Location: Box of Moonlight, Bed-Stuy / Bushwick, Brooklyn
Tickets:https://posh.vip/e/accented-projects-presents-future-color
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