(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AFROPUNK, the global movement exploring all aspects of Black culture around the country and across the world, returns home to Brooklyn this summer for AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN.

This highly anticipated event will take place from August 23-24, 2024 at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, in partnership with BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the longest running free performing arts festival. The two-day event will be an immersive experience that reimagines the future of Black life, creativity, community, and expression as a lead up to AFROPUNK’s 20th anniversary that will take place in 2025.

This year’s event will feature a general admission ticket structure, reinforcing the theme of an inclusive future alongside Erykah Badu, who will make her return as a headliner to the AFROPUNK stage for the first time since 2018. Additional performers & programming to be announced.

AFROPUNK continues to explore the diasporic spectrum of Blackness while actively redefining the modern cultural experience, celebrating life, music, food and culture, offering a safe haven for all attendees to show up who they are and as they are.

At AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN, festivalgoers will experience a space where the future of Black life, creativity, community and expression are reimagined. BLKTOPIA is the manifestation of an inclusive and intentional tomorrow, centered around a Black perspective, embodying the collective 'future of' and our unapologetic 'freedom to.'

Tickets to AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA BKLYN are now available to AFROPUNK email subscribers at a reduced price and are accessible through an exclusive pre-sale link until 2 PM ET on Saturday, July 20th. Tickets will be available for non-subscribers to purchase beginning Saturday, July 20th at 3 PM ET on Ticketmaster.com. Stay tuned for all official updates and announcements surrounding this summer’s event on social at @AFROPUNK on X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

ABOUT AFROPUNK

AFROPUNK is an integrated media platform and global music event platform giving voice to the unwritten, unwelcome and unseen. AFROPUNK is redefining the modern multicultural experience through its mission to unleash freedom of expression and to honor the power of individuality while strengthening our community. AFROPUNK creates an anchor for its growing audience of multicultural youth through its annual AFROPUNK BROOKLYN event and other events in Miami, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Atlanta, Johannesburg and beyond, while continually enhancing engagement and promoting conversation through content, commerce, and community.

AFROPUNK is devoted to creating safe spaces for the expression of Black liberation and a Black Future where we love ourselves and each other without preconception. The AFROPUNK tenets serve as a North Star and remind people to check themselves, ego, and each other when we enter the shared spaces.

ABOUT ESSENCE VENTURES

A multi-faceted ecosystem that uplifts the Global Black experience through frictionless, borderless economic advancements at the intersection of community and culture, ESSENCE Ventures is a member of the Sundial Group of Companies and is the parent company for ESSENCE Communications, Inc., AFROPUNK, Beautycon and Essence Studios.

ABOUT BRIC

BRIC is a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. For over forty years, BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers. As a creative catalyst for their community, BRIC ignites learning in people of all ages and centralizes diverse voices that take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC builds Brooklyn’s creative future.

Source: AFROPUNK