About the Event
This year's AfriKin Talks is built around Changá, a 55-minute documentary that uses the Caribbean game of dominoes to examine how Dutch Caribbean communities create and thrive in the Netherlands. The morning opens with breakfast, followed by the screening and a conversation, and closes with a live domino art activation.
In Conversation
- Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe, co-director of Changá; Endowed Chair in Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations at the University of Amsterdam; former President of the University of St. Martin
- Prof. Patricia J. Saunders, Professor of English and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies at the University of Miami; President of the Caribbean Studies Association; author of the Bocas Prize-shortlisted Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
Program
- Breakfast
- Screening of Changá (55 minutes)
- Conversation with the co-director and Prof. Saunders
- Live domino art activation
Presented with the support of Dutch Culture USA.
About AfriKin Foundation
AfriKin Foundation, Inc. is a Miami-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit art institution dedicated to contemporary African and diaspora art and culture. Founded in 2015 by Alfonso D. Brooks, AfriKin is guided by the principle that culture creates commerce, commerce strengthens community, and community safeguards culture. AfriKin Art Fair 2026 is presented with Miami Art Week partners the City of North Miami, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and Art of Black Miami, Dutch Culture USA, Tito's Handmade Vodka and CNW Network, with additional support from North Miami Parks.
About the Venue
All programs take place at Maison AfriKin, Scott Galvin Community Center, 1600 NE 126th Street, North Miami, FL 33181. AfriKin has operated Maison AfriKin since 2022 as a cultural home in Downtown North Miami, nestled between Aventura, Miami Shores and Bal Harbour. It welcomes collectors, scholars and cultural leaders from around the world to experience Miami Art Week through the lens of Africa and its diaspora.
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Event venue
Scott Galvin Community Center, 1600 NE 126th St, North Miami, FL 33181, United States, Miami Shores
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