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Created with the support of the Green Family Foundation and the FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, ReadCaribbean is a series of readings, discussions, writing workshops, and more highlighting the vibrant and diverse literary culture of the Caribbean. The Miami Book Fair program covers a multiplicity of topics, ranging from mythos and futurism, where historical and generational implications can be viewed through the looking glass, to the unpacking of the current climate through the lens of the diaspora's intersectional identities.
Those currently in the Caribbean and from the diaspora charter a course of conversation and allow the rhetoric itself to take shape and mold the speakers, just as much as the listeners. Panelists enable “a broader Caribbean literary pantheon,” upon which time, territorial boundaries, identities, religions, mother tongues, and autonomy are discussed concerning both the individual and the collective. The Nation is also addressed as they discuss occupation versus liberation, the effects of sovereignty, and breaking from the shackles of historical subjugation.
ReadCaribbean exemplifies that aesthetic is not only materialistic, but rather a complex and fluid consciousness that “exerts emotional, cultural, spiritual, and imaginative influences both on the individual and collective consciousness."
The Panel topics and speakers are included below:
Saturday November 23, 2019
CARIBBEAN MYTH, MYTHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE FICTION at 11 AM
Imam Baksh (Guyana), Ann Dávila Cardinal (Puerto-Rico), Karen Lorde (Barbados), and Breanne McIvor (Trinidad)
Moderated by: Eddy Edwards (Riddims)
CARIBBEAN WRITERS: RACE, GENDER, AND REPRESENTATION at 1 PM
Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Kevin Adonis Browne (Trinidad), Candice Carty-Williams (Jamaica), and Jaquira Diaz (Puerto-Rico)
Moderated by M.J. Fievre (Haiti)
CARIBBEAN JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME AND SPACE at 3 PM
David Chariandy (Trinidad/Toronto), Sara Collins (Jamaica/London), Angie Cruz (Dominican Republic/New York), and Uva de Aragón (Cuba/Miami)
Sunday November 24, 2019
HAITIAN DRAMA IN ITS DEATH THROES | TEYAT AYISYEN AN AGONI at 11 AM
Paula Clermont Pean, Menes Dejoie, Bob Lapierre, and Frantz Kiki Wainwright
IS HAITI A NATION STATE? | ÈSKE AYITI SE YON ETA-NASYON? At 1 PM
Victor Benoit, Christophe Charles, and Alin Louis Hall
Moderated by: Pierre Gerson Joseph (WSRF)
CARIBBEAN VOICES: RISING TIDES | VOIX CARIBÉENES: MARÉES MONTANTES at 3 PM
Ernest Pepin, Dominique Lancastre, Yamile Stitt, and Lyonel Trouillot
Moderated by Jean-Jacques Garnier
CHARM CITY
CHARM CITY delivers a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore. The film speaks to a nationwide crisis, exposing layers of disconnect and distrust between communities and law enforcement. Join us to talk about the positive actions undertaken by groups and individuals in Miami working towards reclaiming their city, offering humanity as common ground.
Film website & trailer: www.charmcitydoc.com.
Q&A moderated by John Yearwood, featuring filmmaker Marilyn Ness, HRW Researcher John Raphling, and Branden Jones from Circle of Brotherhood.
Sponsored by Green Family Foundation
Preserve Your History!
Documenting Caribbean Diasporic Communities
EXPLORING THE ART OF HAITIANS
IN PÒTOPRENS AFRICAN TRADITIONS MEET COLONIAL, AND RELIGIOUS NORMS
RON ALEXANDER SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI TIMES JUL 3, 2019
When I was invited to view an exhibition of Haitian art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, I was slightly intimidated and curious, awe struck yet open minded. I was challenged to understand the complexities of Haitian art and what fuels Haitian artists to create paintings, sculpture and photography steep in history and rich in tradition.
“'PÒTOPRENS' is a large-scale exhibition of sculptures, photographs, and films, accompanied by a recreated Port-au-Prince barbershop as well as extensive public programming,” says MOCA. “The exhibition gives viewers an eye-opening look into the immense diversity of Haiti’s civilization and depicts the city’s chaotic intersections of history, art, religion, political scene and cultural shifts.”
What amazed me were the diverse sculptures intricately fashioned from metals, wires, discarded shoes and human skulls, sequined Voodoo flags, stone and wood carvings, many of the seven-foot sculptures never seen in the United States. Every piece in the sculptures has a significance, representing history and tradition. The sculptures are shrouded in voodoo and religious mysticism, highlighting the artists’ community in Port-au-Prince situated behind the remains of a Catholic Cathedral where art is created... The exhibition runs at MOCA through Aug. 11.
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