Coming to Leeds Millennium Square on 2nd and 3rd September as part of Year of Culture, Ancient Futures is a free outdoor show blending circus, storytelling, Sound System Culture – a cornerstone of Jamaican music – and West African folklore.
Ancient Futures is built on a ‘super fiction’ created by writer Oneness Sankara that imagines the return of fantastical visitors from a society rooted in West African culture that have emerged in our dimension. These Afrinauts arrive in Millennium Square and explore what it might be to live amongst us. They set up for their daily ritual: a dance party, service, celebration that fuses West African Mythology with a pop sensibility. A joyful celebration of what future might be, it includes music from Grime artist Afrikan Boy.
The free show is staged at 4pm on Saturday 2nd September and 12.30pm and 4.00pm on Sunday 3rd September. Running time is 30 minutes
More information – https://leeds2023.co.uk/whats-on/ancient-futures
Picture by Paul Blakemore
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