Enter the Afrofuture
Enter the Afrofuture
Immerse Yourself in Quantum Afrofuturism this Black History Month
A history of visually striking curation. We have the eye.
Secure an Unforgettable Black History Month Experience
Expand your imagination and your heart this BHM through an immersion into striking Afrofuturist Black art, film and other media.
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Build lasting bonds across your team and community by having expansive conversations in a safe space. Great art has a way of bringing us together by expanding our collective imagination, lifting our spirits and delighting our minds.
From poor race relations to Diaspora Wars, we know that the solution to intercultural tensions is innovative educational experiences that help us to understand history while imagining brighter futures–in the immediate and the long term.
Thus we’ve created the Portal to African Intelligence (PTAI), a curation of stunning Black Diaspora art, sound and film embedded into an immersive digital journey teaching on Black history and futurity.
As a game-changing Black History Month experience, the PTAI traverses stories that help us see the Black influence on the world around us, since antiquity.
This virtual or in-person experience, launched in 2022 with Yale African Studies, is designed to uplift, enlighten and more deeply connect your team, community, organization or campus.
Get a peek into the African origins of Artificial Intelligence, the rich history of Hip Hop’s global influence, the Black founders building a Silicon Valley for the Arts, and more.
To book your team’s excursion, submit your inquiry below
Limited slots are available and are secured on a first come first served basis. Once all Feb 2024 slots are filled, subsequent requests will be scheduled for later in 2024 of Black History Month 2025
Your Presenter
Olori Lolade Siyonbola
“From sleeping while Black to putting Black dreams on screen.”
Olori Lolade is a creative intuitive, corporate mystic and digital evangelist using interdisciplinary art and tech to help communities cultivate, amplify and profit from their genius. Through creative intelligence, Olori believes we can build equitable, Liberated futures in which all humans have the opportunity and access to understand, amplify and flourish from their innate gifts and talents. She’s helped teams at Amazon, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Yale and other organizations to cultivate thriving communities focused on innovating for equitable futures.
A multidisciplinary artist and master storyteller, Olori Lolade is the host of the Black Genius podcast where she elucidates the stories of the world’s future Black leaders. A Gates Cambridge Scholar and Harambean Fellow, she began doctoral studies in Sociology at Cambridge University on the heels of her Yale MA in African Studies, where her research focus was worldmaking through cultural production.
Olori Lolade is the Founder of NOIR Labs, where she is spearheading the development of Portal X, a gamified social ed-tech platform, as well as Black Genius University, the interdisciplinary African-centered learning system to be housed on Portal X.
Olori is mother to her best friend and Chief Executive Officer in training, 14 year old Yetunde Olowosoyo, with whom and for whom she is launching this Liberatory ecosystem.
In 2018, Olori went viral after livestreaming an incident in which police were called on her for sleeping on a Yale common room couch. Her words, “I belong here” inspired millions around the world to take up space and to own the infinite value of their Black identity. Olori’s experience with the media following this incident reinforced her commitment to helping create an independent, futurist Black media industry.
In 2022, Olori was interviewed by Brooklyn Nets owner and Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai on her vision for social equity through art, media and technology.
From 2021 to 2023 Olori went through a period of deep spiritual rest and personal excavation, healing her dependency on internalized Western oppression and on external approval. It is in this period that she began production on her first collections of original music, textile art, speculative futurist literature and more–alongside consulting on data and tech strategy for creative organizations.
Olori continues to be sought after by organizations and leaders for her thought leadership at the intersection of ethical tech, creative intelligence and revolutionary healing.
Her first book, Market of Dreams, is available on Amazon.
Truly, we could not be happier with how it went.”