EP #56 | Sunday, November 10th featuring Jon Goode in conversation with Lia Bascomb.  

ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.

Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon. Lia Bascomb to moderate a conversation with artist Jon Goode. The conversation will dive into Jon's new book Black Curio. Black Curio is a collection of short stories that live in the now, the not-so-distant past, and the far-flung future of the Black experience. It's filled with true stories from private spaces and public transit, almost true stories from office buildings and chess parks, and imagined realities from worlds not yet born. There will be moments that will make you smile, make you laugh, make you cry, and hopefully make you sit, examine, and reflect.

Feel free to read Black Curio prior to the Salon date! To purchase the paperback search Black Curio Jon Goode on Amazon or purchase the PDF version on Jon Goode's website. 

ADAMA Arts Salon | Ep #56

November 10, 2023

2-3 pm EST

Register to attend in person or virtually! The live stream link will be sent to all RSVPs via email.  

About Moderator: Lia T. Bascomb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, and affiliated with the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She trained at Yale University and UC-Berkeley as an interdisciplinary Black studies scholar with emphases in diaspora theory, Caribbean studies, cultural theory, visual culture, performance studies, gender and sexuality, and literature. Her scholarly interests focus on representations and performances of nation, gender, and sexuality across the African diaspora. She has published in journals such as Meridians, Souls, Palimpsest, Anthurium, Antipode, and the Black Scholar, and her book, In Plenty and In Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity, is part of the Critical Caribbean Studies Series at Rutgers University Press.

Jon Goode: Goode is an Emmy nominated writer raised in Richmond, VA and currently residing in Atlanta, GA. Jon’s work has been featured in CNN’s Black in America, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, BET’s Lyric Café and TVOne’s Verses and Flow. He has also written radio commercials for McDonalds, print ads for Nike, and written and appeared in commercials, vignettes and interstitials for MTV, Comedy Central, VH-1 and TVLand/ Nick@Nite. Jon’s work earned him the 2006 Promax Gold for the best copyright in North America. In 2022 he won a gold American Advertising Award for Branded Content and Entertainment Non-Broadcast, a Silver Telly Award, and was again nominated for a Promax. Jon's collection of poems and short stories, Conduit, was #1 on Amazon for sixteen weeks. His debut novel, Mydas, was a #1 new title on Amazon for five weeks. Jon's latest collection of short stories, Black Curio, has been #1 on Amazon since its release on September 22nd, 2024. Jon is a Fellow of AIR Serenbe, and a host and storyteller with The Moth.