Caribe Negro Series en Brown University, Rhode Island

CARIBE NEGRO SERIES

@ Brown Univ. Churchill House BassPas

155 Angell St., Providence

FREE and Open to EVERYONE

EDDIE’S PEREJIL

Thursday, March 2, 2017 @ 7PM

A solo performance about a working-class Dominican-American student who stumbles upon a document describing a genocide known as the 1937 Haitian Massacre, el Corte

LEGACY WOMEN

Saturday, March 4, 2017 @ 7PM

All-women’s traditional musical group rooted in Afro-Dominican and Afro-Puerto Rican musical traditions including Palos, Congos, Salves, and Bomba

LA SIRENE: RUTAS DE AZUCAR

Friday, March 3, 2017 @ 7PM

Through sound and movement, La Sirene probes Cuban revolutionary José Antonio Aponte's libro de pinturas (book of paintings) of black heroes that served as a catalyst for an attempted rebellion against colonists, leading to the first conspiracy and abolition charge in Spanish-speaking Latin America

Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre with generous support from the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown Arts Initiative, CLACS, Heimark Fund, Latino Heritage Series - BCSC, CSREA, CSSJ and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

For more information, contact us:

africana_studies@brown.edu

401-863-3137