VOX ATL: An Overview Of The 2018 Afropunk Festival

Reflecting on the Afropunk festival earlier this month, VOX ATL’s Erin Davis says that the event’s “musical culture is wide-spanning and ever-evolving.” However, the festival is more than music. It also serves “as a creative platform and art showcase for a range of works such as film, installation, painting and multimedia,” Davis writes.

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By Erin Davis

Led by this generation of change-makers, artists and activists, Afropunk brings its 2018 Carnival of Consciousness to the streets of Atlanta’s Mechanicsville neighborhood for its third year.

A festival celebrating the avant-garde, Afropunk reflects a thriving subculture of individuals that have not only made a space and platform for themselves but also spurred a movement for alternative blackness.