Language: English (mozilla)
** If there is an error message when joining the room - it is due to us being at capacity, we encourage you to join one of the overflow rooms to watch the performance with other members of the community: **
- Overflow Room 1
- Overflow Room 2
- Overflow Room 3
This year, the MozFest Science Fair theme is inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower - An Opera. This marks the beginning of a two year collaboration with composer and librettist, Toshi Reagon. Drawing from the core thematic focus, and narrative direction of this powerful book, we will translate and emulate these themes through projects, people and programs from across the internet health movement. The event will be held in Mozilla Hubs in order to build an experimental virtual and interactive imagining of the Parable narrative and world.
We will demo projects that align with the story, and present manifestations of the themes: sustainability, decolonization, planting seeds, and emergence.
Exhibiting projects include:
URSOR - A search engine and browser for kids,
Pollicy,
Internews ADAPT (Advocating for Data Accountability, Protection, and Transparency) Project,
Internet Freedom Foundation,
Climate Refugees,
Waste as a Public Good.
<img alt="MozFest Science Fair 2022 Image" src="https://pretalx.com/media/mozfest-2022/submissions/LH7PUP/MozFest_Screenshots_02_o0eGFhA.jpg" />
This session is being livestreamed and can be viewed from the main page of the MozFest Plaza.
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Why did you choose that space? How does your session align with the space description?:Feature Mozilla community members and their aligned projects
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session? What if 30 participants attend? What if there are 3?:Participants can move from one presenter to the other over a period of 90 mins and engage as they please. Rooms may have max numbers depending on the platform chosen.
What happens after MozFest? We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after MozFest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:Projects get featured on blog
What language would you like to host your session in?: —
Temi leads developer-focused strategy around Trustworthy AI and MozFest. She is also a Forbes featured entrepreneur.
TOSHI REAGON(Singer, Composer, Musician, Curator, Producer) is a multi-talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock.
While her expansive career has landed her at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House and Madison Square Garden, you’ll just as easily find Toshi turning up at a music festival, an intimate venue, or at your local club.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Black feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. Alexis is the facilitator of "God is Change" an online educational portal in honor of Octavia E. Butler, and proud participant in Parable Path component of Toshi Reagon's "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of The Sower: The Opera." Alexis is the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She was a 2020-2021 National Humanities Center Fellow and is a current National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Her biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is forthcoming. She is co-founder of Mobile Homecoming Trust in Durham, North Carolina.