More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
Two Grammy nominees — Charo Goyonehe, appointed Meritorious Person of Afro Peruvian Culture, and Rosa Guzmán, champion of Peru’s criolla music — fly in from Peru for a legendary concert with Freddy “Huevito” Lobatón, Master of of Afro Peruvian percussive instruments, and Yuri Juárez, Master of Afro-Peruvian folk guitar.
Charo Goyonehe and Rosa Guzmán are Cultural Activists who through songs preserve Afro-Peruvian traditions and combat racism, sexism and marginalization.
Free, but tickets required.
Come learn of the significance of Afro Brazilian communal dances Samba de Roda & Samba de Caboclo. Bridge cultures, build community, and join in this dance that is a feat of resistance and perseverance and whose steps are a call to unity and strength. At the Valle del Oro National Wildlife Refuge—a gem of a bird sanctuary and communal gathering space tucked in Bernalillo’s South Valley, minutes away from Albuquerque.
With visiting Brazilian tradition-bearers Viviam Caroline de Jesus Queirós and Marcus Gonçalves da Silva aka Guellwaar Adún. Samba de Roda is an endangered Masterpiece of Humanity’s Oral and Intangible Heritage.
This short (18-min) documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.
Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group, The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.
For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. The foods of Afro peoples continue to incorporate ingredients of ancestral dishes and to preserve African ways of preparing ingredients native to the Americas. Presenters will discuss the African roots of various dishes and defy stereotypes of what “soul” food is.
Food pickup at Three Sisters Kitchen from 4-6 pm; panel discussion at National Hispanic Cultural Center at 7:30.
Screening of short (15-min) film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” followed by panel discussion.
Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.
“Garifuna in Peril” delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna.
Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Indigeneity Scholar Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means; and Big Queen of the New Orleans Washitau Nation, Ausettua AmorAmenkum.
