Podcast en vivo: Infancias con Afro Chingonas / Live Podcast: Childhood with Afro Chingonas

Este programa se presentará en español / This program will be presented in Spanish.

Featured Participants: Afro Chingonas (Valeria Angola, Mar Bella Figueroa, Scarlet Estrada)

Afrochingonas es un podcast entre amigas dedicado a temas random, desde la experiencia de 3 mujeres Negras en Ciudad de México. / Afrochingonas is a podcast hosted by friends and dedicated to random topics as experienced by three Black women in Mexico City.

Constructing Blackness through the Young Lords

This session seeks to interrogate the notion that blackness can only be expressed through a singular African American lens. The Young Lords are heirs to the Black Power Movement echoing the freedom cries of antiwar and black radicalism by African American organizations like the Black Panther Party and the Independence Movement in Puerto Rico by Afro Puerto Rican figures like Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, the movement's outspoken leader.

View the session here: https://youtu.be/yORnHjHIh00

MOLAA Zoom Project: Carlos Martiel

Martiel is an activist and artist, who lives and works between New York and Havana. He graduated in 2009 from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro,” in Havana. Between the years 2008-2010, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by the artist Tania Bruguera. His work focuses on themes surrounding racial violence, implications of colonialism, the global diaspora of blackness, and the visual consumption of blackness.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/o6Ezqsh3Jo0

Capoeira Demonstration

Featured Performers: ABADÁ Capoeria – San Francisco

ABADÁ Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) presents a demonstration of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form known for its integration of acrobatics, dance, and songs. Developed as an expression of resistance by enslaved African people in Brazil, today Capoeria is a celebration of the diverse cultural heritage of Brazil and an art form popular throughout the globe.

Website: https://www.abada.org/

View this presentation here: https://youtu.be/gh6TkSafE6A

Hosted by Tasha W. Hunter from African American Cultural Center of Long Beach (AACCLB) and Griselda Suarez, Executive Director of the Arts council for Long Beach (ACLB)

This conversation aims to break down some of the divides in the Black & Brown community through storytelling. Come to listen, come to share.

Local cultural leaders Tasha Hunter of the African American Cultural Center of Long Beach and the Arts Council of Long Beach’s Griselda Suárez host a dialogue with local artists and poets of Afro-Latinx descent. Presentations will be followed by a session where the audiences will have the opportunity to share stories on their own cultural experiences in Long Beach.

View this panel here: https://youtu.be/xokyhSapDZo

Podcast en vivo: Apropiación cultural con Afro Chingonas / Live Podcast: Cultural Appropriation with Afro Chingonas

Este programa se presentará en español / This program will be presented in Spanish.

Featured Participants: Afro Chingonas (Valeria Angola, Mar Bella Figueroa, Scarlet Estrada)

Afrochingonas es un podcast entre amigas dedicado a temas random, desde la experiencia de 3 mujeres Negras en Ciudad de México. / Afrochingonas is a podcast hosted by friends and dedicated to random topics as experienced by three Black women in Mexico City.

Watch this panel here: https://youtu.be/cg_zwF6wc_8

Featured artist: Robert Liu Trujillo

Author and illustrator Robert Liu Trujillo conducts a live book reading of his book, Furqan’s First Haircut, a story about an Afro-Latino boy’s imagination, his first haircut, and the relationship between him and his father. A live Q & A will follow the reading.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/6LPHMVrzbHM

Ariana & Alán: The Kindred Tour

Featured speakers: Ariana Brown & Alán Pelaez López

The Museum of Latin American Art presents: The Kindred Tour, featuring Alan Pelaez Lopez and Ariana Brown. This event will consist of a virtual performance centered on Black healing and queer kinship. The Kindred Tour aims to address Black childhoods, care, and queer futures while insisting on joy, futures, and radical policies. Join them on February 20, 2021 @ 2PM PST for an intimate poetry reading followed by a Q&A session.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/4tl6AdK-6p0

Featured speaker: Zahira Kelley-Cabrera

Antiblackness in Latin America: A run-through of the history of Latin America in terms of colonialism and racial hierarchy, with a focus on Black Latin Americans and how antiblackness has manifested in our communities historically and in the present.

Watch this session here: https://youtu.be/dUBajox6n-U

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) invites you to learn more about the diversity of Afro-Latinx experiences directly from artists, scholars, and community organizers most actively bringing attention to contemporary Afro-Latinx communities and their histories. For over a decade, MOLAA has dedicated a day to celebrating the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas through music, dance, and food at its Afro-Latinx Family Festival. MOLAA’s 2021 online festival spans almost two weeks and highlights the voices and experiences of Afro-Latinx through conversations, performances, and presentations.

All events will take place via Zoom and are free and accessible to the public. See complete itinerary here: https://molaa.org/afrolatinxfest-2021