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2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women

April 14

3:00 pm

2024 AfroMundo Festival
Maroons, Rebels, Dreamers & Visionaries
Featuring Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica & USA
April 12 – 20, 2024
Music, literature, oral histories theater, films, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more.

2024 AfroMundo Festival: Historic Rebel Women. Screening of Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess.
Directed by Roy T Anderson, 2015, 59 min

This film documents the military genius of Nanny of Jamaica, one of the most successful yet least recognized heroines of slave rebellions.

The screening is followed by a panel discussion of inspiring, historic rebel women. Panelists include Ronald D. Cummings, Jamaican Maroon Scholar; Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Costa Rican author of award winning historical novel Finding La Negrita; Diana Carolina Angulo Ramirez, co-author of “Unveiling the past: Enslaved Lives Matter,” and Belinda Deneen Wallace, UNM Associate Professor of Caribbean and African Diasporic literatures, Afrofuturism, Queer Studies, and more.

All events are free and open to the general public. Please make your reservation below.

*AfroMundo Festival 2024 graphic “Thorns & Blooms” by Lauryn Mills Bohannon, featured courtesy of Bold Futures.

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April 14
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Venue

Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
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Phone
(505) 724-4771
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