About this Event
CHANGÁ: Griot Moves | Breakfast, Screening & Conversation
Part of GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times | 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair
Thursday, December 3, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Maison AfriKin | Scott Galvin Center | 1600 NE 126th Street, North Miami, FL 33181
What does a game of dominoes have to do with survival, art, and the African diaspora? Everything.
AfriKin Foundation invites you to an intimate morning of film, scholarship, and cultural play during Miami Art Week 2026. CHANGÁ: Griot Moves brings together the documentary Changá, a keynote by its co-director Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe, a conversation between Prof. Dr. Guadeloupe and Prof. Patricia J. Saunders of the University of Miami, and a live domino art activation.
FEATURING
Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe
Endowed Chair in Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations, University of Amsterdam
Senior Research Fellow, Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW)
Former President, University of St. Martin. Author of Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University of Mississippi Press, 2022) and Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009).
Prof. Patricia J. Saunders
Professor of English and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Miami
President, Caribbean Studies Association
Co-Editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. Author of Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022), shortlisted for the Bocas Prize for non-fiction, and Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Lexington Books, 2007).
MORNING PROGRAMME
10:00 AM | Doors Open and Light Breakfast
10:30 AM | Film Screening: Changá
11:25 AM | Keynote: Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe
12:00 PM | In Conversation: Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe and Prof. Patricia J. Saunders, followed by questions from the audience
12:30 PM | Domino Activation: Art, Play and Exchange
1:00 PM | Close
THE FILM
Changá uses the Caribbean game of dominoes as a lens on how Dutch Caribbean communities create, express, and thrive within the Netherlands. From Hip Hop to Dancehall to Punk Rock and Drum and Bass, the film weaves Caribbean philosophy, rhythm, and cultural code into a meditation on diaspora, conviviality, and belonging.
Directors: Francio Guadeloupe and Manpreet Brar
Cinematography and Editing: Ian del Angel
Featuring: Juny Martina, Ray Fuego, Amy Miyu, Earthquake Brass Band
Runtime: 55 minutes | Dutch, English, Papiamentu
THE DOMINO EXPERIENCE
The morning closes at the table. Guests are invited into a live domino activation, designed as both art experience and cultural conversation, where the game becomes a shared language across the diaspora. The game is the medium. The table is the classroom.
PART OF GRIOT: URGENT STORYTELLING FOR OUR TIMES
CHANGÁ: Griot Moves is part of the 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair, curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, November 29 to December 6, 2026 at Maison AfriKin during Miami Art Week. GRIOT is on public view daily, November 30 to December 6.
Light breakfast is included. Seating is limited.
Event page: afrikin.org/afrikin-changa.html
Questions: [email protected] | 305-760-5515
AfriKin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) African diaspora cultural institution headquartered in North Miami, Florida. EIN: 85-2592611.
Event venue & nearby stays
Scott Galvin Community Center, 1600 Northeast 126th Street, North Miami, United States
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