This Might, UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences offers a thirty day period-very long collection of performances and conversations on Afrofuturism, a worldwide creative and social motion, employing the arts, science, and technologies to imagine—and create— a globe where African-descended peoples and cultures can stay and prosper. Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism is spearheaded by a trio of UCSC-affiliated artists: composer/performer Karlton Hester, choreographer Gerald Casel, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga.  The program of multidimensional and transcultural music and dance performances, film screenings, and conversations, provides with each other artists and thinkers to creatively engage and foster the growing Afrofuturist movement for liberation and the restructuring of society…