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The Time Bandit Launch Event
December 1, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Legacy Reclaimed celebrates the launch of Li Sumpter’s “The Time Bandit of The 7th Ward.”
Friday, December 1 | Starting at 5PM
Rex at the Royal, located at 1524 South Street
Join us for happy hour or make a dinner reservation and enjoy DJ John Morrison and live performances throughout the night.
Portraits by Ken McFarlane will be taken in the Mezzanine from 5PM-7PM.
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“Time Bandit of the 7th Ward” will feature a “fictional artifact” from Illadelph Dreams: 2045, Sumpter’s latest chapter of the transmedia narrative Graffiti in the Grass. The artifact takes the form of a fully functioning 1910 Bell Mills vintage slot machine running on 5-cent nickels and its original century-old machinery but playing with a set of 6 new symbols. Sumpter designed these symbols to reflect the rich black history of Philadelphia’s 7th Ward, her own family legacy, and the archetypes and iconography of Illadelph Dreams: 2045. Time Bandit is designed to blur the lines between art and artifact, history and myth, the past, and the speculative future.