Join us for our next installment of Afro-Picks, a CCCADI a virtual talk series that highlights emerging filmmakers and films set in the communities of the African Diaspora.
This special Curators in Conversation public program brings together art critics and curators Suset Sánchez and Yanelys Núñez Leyva to discuss a history of institutional and independent exhibitions that address the problem of race and racism in Cuba. The conversation will be moderated by Aldeide Delgado, Guest Curator of The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race. Jasmine Chavez Helm, CCCADI Curatorial Fellow will serve as the Respondent and CCCADI Curator-at-Large Grace Aneiza Ali will offer Introductions.
Image: Marta María Pérez Bravo. No son míos, 2008-2010. © Marta María Pérez Bravo. Courtesy of the artist
Our upcoming Afro-Picks program will feature the film “Black Motherhood Through the Lens”, a documentary that features four Black women's experiences in navigating the reproductive and maternal healthcare system from conception to postpartum.
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.
Join us in kicking off Kwanzaa with UMOJA! - a CCCADI virtual celebration to reflect on the past year. Umoja means unity in Swahili.
A virtual musical performance showcasing the newest generation of olu-bata, omo-alanya, and akpwon in NYC’s Lucumi community and commemorating the feast day of Shango.
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.
CCCADI commemorates Juneteenth by celebrating the freedom to make music and address social justice with its AFRO WAVES program. This event will feature Cvgebird and aja monet, one of a series of concerts that celebrate Black cultural evolution with vanguard artists of the African Diaspora.
Filmmaker Elegance Bratton joins us live for our June installment of Afro-Picks featuring the film “Pier Kids”.
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.
Dee Dwyer, a photographer based in Southeast, Washington, D.C., will share her personal and professional mission to counter the misrepresentation of the Southeast community with more genuine documentation.
Jennings will be in conversation with celebrated photographer Jamel Shabazz, known for his iconic portrayals of Black life throughout New York City and beyond.
Vanessa Charlot will speak about Am I Next?—part of her ongoing documentary series to capture both the Black Lives Matter movement and everyday life in St. Louis, Missouri.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Afro-Caribbean curators are discussing the powerful work of the Diaspora during CCCADI’s Curators in Conversation!
Afro-Caribbean curators are discussing the powerful work of the Diaspora during CCCADI’s Curators in Conversation!
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!
On SEPTEMBER 8th, Rudy Francisco is coming to the IG Poetry Live stage!
On August 18th, Meccamorphosis is coming to the IG Poetry Live stage!
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!
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