CCCADI’s Afro-Picks series returns this fall. Gear up for our November installment featuring Alexis Garcia and scenes from her film “Yemaya” by viewing the film at this year’s NYLFF.
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CCCADI continues its efforts to create strong institutional partnerships across the Diaspora through its recent visit to New Orleans, Louisiana. Earlier this month, Executive Director Melody Capote, Director of Programs Sabine Blaizin and Regina Bultrón Bengoa, CCCADI Crossroads Interim Project Director & Executive Advisor connected with the leadership team of Ashé Cultural Arts Center and the New Orleans African American Museum.
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The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race, guest curated by Aldeide Delgado focuses on identity and resistance.
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The 45-year-old organization expands its physical location to further serve its local community and network of artists and cultural workers.
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In collaboration with Ashé Cultural Arts Center, this installment will feature two New Orleans natives exploring Mardi Gras traditions from their respective lenses as culture bearers.
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For our virtual event, we have partnered with The BEAUCOUP HOODOO ATRs Book Club to present a special screening of Voices of the Gods (1985) followed by a Q&A with the Brooklyn-based filmmaker Al Santana, Okomfo Dr. Adwoa Tano, a priest in the Akan tradition and Iya Mandisa Mchawi, Osun Priest and Alásè in the Lucumi tradition. The discussion will be moderated by Iya Shantrelle P. Lewis, founder of ATRs BOOK CLUB and Sango Priest in the Lucumi tradition.
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An ongoing talk series that examines the shared Pan-African experience from a diverse set of Black lenses.
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Annually, CCCADI hosts a panel of Lucumi priests to discuss the year's forecast. You are invited to join us for this Sacred Traditions panel discussion.
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Cohort III kicks off their participation in the Caribbean Cultural African Diaspora Institute’s Digital Evolution Artist Retention (DEAR) intensive fellowship with a virtual retreat taking place throughout December 2021.
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