Schedule

  • Wednesday Nov 3
  • Thursday Nov 4
  • Friday Nov 5
  • Saturday Nov 6
  • Day 1
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01:30 PM - 01:50 PMWelcome By Christina Sharpe and Andrea A. Davis
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01:50 PM - 03:30 PMOpening Conversation | with Q&A By Shivanee Ramlochan, Kevin Quashie, Emily Greenwood, Rinaldo WalcottDeborah McDowell (Moderator)
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03:45 PM - 04:30 PMFilm: UNDERcurrents | with Introduction and Q&A By nia lovein conversation with Christina Sharpe and Rinaldo Walcott
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05:00 PM - 06:30 PMExhibition Opening | Thresholds: Wading through Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return | with Q&A By Abdi Osman, Canisia Lubrin, Christina Battle, Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, Cecily Nicholson, Chantal Gibson, and Kevin Adonis BrowneEllyn Walker (Moderator)
  • Day 2
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12:00 PM - 01:30 PMPanel | with Q&A By K’eguro Macharia, Tiana Reid, Sam Tecle, and Zakiyyah Iman JacksonDavid Chariandy (Moderator)
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02:00 PM - 03:30 PMFields of Imagining | with Q&A By Natalie Diaz, Torkwase Dyson, Kaie Kellough, Canisia Lubrin, and Brandon ShimodaNanjala Nyabola (Moderator)
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05:00 PM - 05:45 PMStaged Reading of Map | with Q&A By Jaye Austin Williams, Amber Starr Friendly, and Evan Michael LeeDanielle A.D. Howard (Moderator)
  • Day 3
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12:00 PM - 01:30 PMPanel | with Q&A By Josh Myers, Ronald Cummings, Marcelle-Anne Fletcher, and Bedour AlagraaAndrea A. Davis (Moderator)
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02:30 PM - 04:00 PMPanel | with Q&A By Warren Crichlow, Biko Mandela Gray, Alissa Trotz, Jon Jon MooreRinaldo Walcott (Moderator)
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05:00 PM - 05:45 PMRadio Play: Dwellers at the Door | with Q&A By a.k. payne, Clark Burnett, and Whitney Andrewsin conversation with Shaunasea Brown

Shaunasea Brown (Moderator)

Dwellers Play Collective is a budding, ever-growing theatre ensemble that makes space for Black folks to play, experiment, question and dwell. With love, we strive to create conditions in which Blackness may be boundless, diasporic and defy binaries on every front. 

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06:00 PM - 07:00 PMMusical Performance | with Introduction By Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo SmithAjay Heble (Moderator)

Iyer and Smith have made music together for nearly two decades, frequently over the last several years as a duo, as on their award-winning recording A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (2016, ECM). Writing in The New Yorker, Alec Wilkinson described their music in this way: “[It] begins with Smith playing a bright rising phrase like a herald, that seems to announce a character’s taking the stage. What follows might be a two-figure play in which the exchanges involve mortality or impermanence or divinity. The musicians seem to trade remarks and sometimes talk along with one another […] Sometimes they appear to reflect on an exchange and sometimes they brood separately. The discourses are both cultivated and passionate.” 

  • Day 4
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02:00 PM - 02:30 PMFilm: What is a Better Life | with Introduction and Q&A By Alberta WhittleChristina Sharpe (Moderator)
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02:45 PM - 03:15 PMFilm | with Introduction and Q&A By Arthur JafaRinaldo Walcott (Moderator)
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03:30 PM - 05:15 PMClosing Conversation | with Q&A By Dionne Brand, Mabel O. Wilson, Saidiya Hartman, Andrea A. Davis, and Françoise VergèsTina Campt (Moderator)

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