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.
In this special uptown collaboration, we will unite with Harlem Stage to present world-renowned Cuban percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martinez, in a special program that celebrates Martinez's musical path from Afro-Cuban rumba to high-energy timba.
In this special uptown collaboration, we will unite with Harlem Stage to present world-renowned Cuban percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martinez, in a special program that celebrates Martinez's musical path from Afro-Cuban rumba to high-energy timba.
An ongoing talk series that examines the shared Pan-African experience from a diverse set of Black lenses.
Photographer and poet Nadia Alexis will present photographs from her series, What Endures, which she deems “a form of homage to the departed and the living.” Alexis’s photographs of Southern landscapes, paired with a dual presence and absence of the self, are a statement of resistance to the erasure of the Black women lost to violence and whose spaces for mourning have been stolen. Alexis will be in conversation with Zainab Floyd, a current CCCADI Curatorial Fellow in Afro-Caribbean Art and the founder/artistic director of Caribbean Archive, which features Black Caribbean women’s scholarship on agency and resistance. The conversation will be hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali, curator of On Protest and Mourning.
Nadia Alexis is a poet, photographer, educator, and organizer born in Harlem, New York to Haitian immigrants and currently based in Oxford, Mississippi where she is pursuing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Her poetry has been published in Kweli Journal, Indiana Review, MQR: Mixtape, Texas Review, and others. Her photography has been published in Forgotten Lands, MQR: Mixtape, TORCH Journal, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2019 honorable mention prize winner of Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is also a fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole.
Zainab Floyd is a Haitian and Afro-American interdisciplinary artist born and based in New York. Floyd is interested in themes of Black feminism and post-colonialism. Floyd is the founder and artistic director of Caribbean Archive, an archival page of Black Caribbean women who have created a scholarship of work representing agency and resistance. Alongside Angelica Calderon, Floyd also co-founded ZAZA Uptown, an artist collective dedicated to the progress of Afro-Caribbean femmes, women, and GNC artists in uptown New York. Floyd will be an M.A. candidate at Columbia University in the African American studies department with a concentration in Caribbean studies.
Join us for a conversation highlighting the work of CCCADI’s Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellows. Jade Foster, a British curator and founder of Black Curators Collective will be in conversation with Katherine Kennedy, curator and cultural practitioner working for The Fresh Milk Art Platform in Barbados.
Filmmaker and photographer, Carlos Javier Ortiz will take us through his documentary film We All We Got (2014)—an elegy for the city and people of Chicago as it grappled with the scourge of violence and inconsolable loss while trying to rebuild. Ortiz, who thinks critically about place and the built environment as he examines the impact of violence in our communities, will share his work to illuminate the stories too often reduced to stereotypes. Ortiz will be in conversation with Laurence Ralph, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and Director of Center on Transnational Policing, whose research examines policing and militarization in our contemporary moment. The conversation will be hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali, curator of On Protest and Mourning.
Jennings will be in conversation with celebrated photographer Jamel Shabazz, known for his iconic portrayals of Black life throughout New York City and beyond.
A Cartoon Telenovela of a young girl whose life changes when she realizes she's Black.
On Thursday, March 4, CCCADI will be hosting its last ZUMBI program. This program will feature two short films, UM Jantar –The Dinner and I, A, Woman, Resist, and a panel discussion with Sharrell Barber and Rachel E. Harding.
Award-winning chef, Gabriela Alvarez, is sharing her approach on how our community can heal through food. Gabriela specializes in creating plant-based and culturally relevant meals for our community to enjoy.
Curators in Conversation is back! This virtual talk will feature Nic Brierre Aziz, artist and Community Engagement Curator for the New Orleans Museum of Art and manager of the Haitian Cultural Legacy Collection alongside Joëlle Ferly, artist and Founder of L’Artocarpe, an international artist-driven space in Guadeloupe.
The film tells the story of Mestre Cobra Mansa who seeks to understand his Afro-Brazilian heritage, and in particular to explore the ancestry of his art, capoeira.
We’re thrilled about our next AFRO-PICK where we will be in dialogue with Through the Night, documentarian Loira Limbal.
CCCADI will be showing a documentary celebrating the work and life of Clyde Morgan - teacher, researcher, dancer and choreographer, who for 10 years taught and was Artistic Director and Choreographer of the Contemporary Dance Group, the Dance School of the Federal University of Bahia.
CCCADI will be showing Afro-Atlantic Legacies along with a conversation with Professor Xavier Vatin and Dr. Ken Dossar. This documentary tells the story of how and why Lorenzo Turner – Professor at Fisk University came to Bahia in 1940. Professor Lorenzo Turner is best remembered as the father of Gullah studies. He researched creole language in Sierra Leone, and Portuguese in Brazil. His research showed the continuity of language and culture across the diaspora. The film’s objective is to give back to the Afro-Brazilian religious communities that welcomed Turner to record their history through photographs and to record their sacred songs.
Our last Curators in Conversation for 2020 is here! As curators with leadership roles at institutions in service to Caribbean Art, María Elena Ortiz and O’Neil Lawrence will share their thoughts on the role of the curator and the future of museums in navigating this fragile yet generative moment. Grace Aneiza Ali, CCCADI’s Curator-At-Large, will be moderating this riveting discussion.
Cinco, Seis, Sete, Oito, Samba! Samba is part philosophy, part dance and the life blood of Brazilians worldwide. On December 2, there will be a live virtual performance of BANDA DNA from Bahia. You don’t want to miss this exciting cultural performance.
CCCADI will be showing the documentary, Alápini, with a discussion with Dr. Ken Dossar. Alápini describes the life of a priest, writer, healer, educator, artist Deoscoredes Maxililiano dos Santos – Mestre Didi - through the memories of his family, and members of the terreiro(spiritual community) he created - Ile Asipá Terreiro. (In Portuguese with English subtitles).
Afro-Caribbean curators are discussing the powerful work of the Diaspora during CCCADI’s Curators in Conversation!
Do you want to learn more about African-based religions? We are presenting The Orisha Tradition: An African Worldview to give our community an opportunity to learn more about these sacred traditions. The workshop’s title lends itself to the documentary with the same name, and it is an introductory overview of the Yoruba/Lucumi belief system. Tune in on October 1st at 7pm to get some insight about these African-based belief systems.
Hey Community, save the date for CCCADI’s 2nd Annual AfriBembé Virtual Festival. The Festival will include an African Diasporic soundtrack from the Caribbean, Latin America, and the States. Be ready to celebrate, dance, shop, and vibe with the sonic energy of the Diaspora on Saturday, September 19th from 2-8pm!
An Exploration of Black Music & Media thru the Black August Hip Hop Project
Black Women have been at the forefront of the liberation movement. Whether at home or in the streets, black women have used their voices, strength, and wisdom to ensure that the revolution moves forward. On August 24th, Rosa Clemente and Chelsea Miller will have a conversation about the dynamics of navigating through the liberation movement as a black woman.
The Puerto Rican community has been an integral part of the Black Liberation movement. On August 18th’s Sankofa Talk, we will be having former Young Lord and poet, Felipe Luciano along with social justice activist, Iman Abdul, as they discuss the Boricua community and its involvement in Black liberation movements.
Education is the first step to achieving liberation, and Black educators are the change agents who create space for our community’s liberation. For August 17th’s Sanoka Talk, Michael Wiggins, Director of Engagement and Education for Little Island, and educator and organizer, Akiea “Ki” Gross, will be discussing how they envision equitable education for the Diaspora.
On Tuesday, August 4th at 8pm, CCCADI is having Ghanaian writer, educator, and activist, Yaw Kyeremateng. Yaw’s work thrives because he connects to his audience through poetic story-telling on topics related to racial identity, family and immigration.
Spoken word artist and scholar, @FabianVillegas1 will be sharing his wonderful poetry on our IG Poetry Live TODAY at 8pm!
Elizabeth Acevedo, poet, novelist, and National Poetry Slam Champion, is sharing her inspiring work on our next IG Live Poetry Reading!
Gabriel Ramirez is dropping gems on this week’s IG Poetry Reading. Watch on our IG!
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