Zong: A Living Memorial - a durational, improvisational performance with M. NourbeSe Philip’s performing her poetry, staged at Historic Virginia Key Beach in Miami during the 37th Annual West Indian Literature Conference in October 2018.
EVENTS
An archive of upcoming and past events
Haitian Arts & Culture Festival | September 24-27, 2026 | Berkeley, CA
INTERVALLE - Martinique Dance Biennale, will take place from October 27 to October 31, 2026 with La Maison Rouge. Creations, performances, conferences, master classes... 5 days dedicated exclusively to female choreographic creation (Caribbean, European, African) to make bodies, stories, and territories speak.
The 7th annual meeting of the Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory will be held November 5-7, 2026 as a hybrid conference, with in-person events taking place at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
New Waves! Institute is a site of creativity, experimentation, and critical thought in the Caribbean, organized through a principle of “Emancipation” and committed to connecting participants in ways that alter and bring out light in one another. Organized by Makeda Thomas, Dr Hume In the 2023 New Waves! program in Trinidad & Tobago, led a course that explored sacred dance practices and embodied knowledge rooted in ancestral wisdom across Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and resonances from Trinidad and Grenada.
Dance Africa Fest: Rhythm Routes: Dances of the African Diaspora. Dance Africa Fest offers a wide variety of African Diaspora dance and features artists representing countries and creative dance practices that showcase the global footprint of Africa through a variety of dance cultures. Rhythm Routes is a daylong conference featuring 90-minute workshops that showcase different African Diaspora dance practices.
Keynote speaker Professor Yanique Hume, Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados,
Research Fellow, Research Centre for Material Culture, Wereld Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands (June 9–July 19). Workshop: "Wake-Work: Embodying Ancestral Memory and Reparative Healing in Interdisciplinary Performance.
A promotional poster for the Ciphers of Wisdom Leadership Summit, taking place from May 25 to 30, 2025. The background resembles a swimming pool with light reflections. The poster features headshots of various speakers, including Dr. Lela Aisha Jones, Dr. Oley Cruz Banks, Dakota Camacho Ma, Dr. Toni C. King, Adesola Akinkoye, Yanique Humile, and others.