Name: iWitness Lunch Break at BBC: Visualizing the Everyday with Vanessa Charlot
Start: 2026-01-09T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-09T13:00:00-05:00
Location: The Forum, Academic Two (ACII) Building

iWitness Lunch Break at BBC: Visualizing the Everyday with Vanessa Charlot

Lunch Break at FIU's BBC campus will feature a conversation with visiting artist Vanessa Charlot and singers from the Florida Grand Opera.
About this Event

Join us for our January iWitness Lunch Break at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Professor Vanessa Charlot of the University of Mississippi will be in conversation with award-winning photojournalist Carl-Philippe Juste and others about the art of capturing the everyday. We will also welcome singers from the Florida Grand Opera who will give a bilingual performance. As always, we will be joined by Master of Ceremony, DJ Mack.

Thanks to a grant from South Arts, we are joined by Ten North Group Visiting Artist, Vanessa Charlot. Charlot is an award-winning photographic artist, filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media. Charlot, herself a Miami native and a member of Miami’s Haitian community, will take us through her practice of documenting and uplifting community.

Lunch will be served.

This event is presented in partnership with iWitness, a dynamic, multifaceted community nonprofit that works closely with the Green School’s Public Humanities Lab. iWitness invites us to engage in visual storytelling, critical reflection and civic dialogue, focusing on issues that impact and shape communities in Latin America and the Caribbean and their global diasporas.

Partners:

Ten North Group
Florida Grand Opera
The Humanities Edge
IPC ArtSpace
Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance
African & African Diaspora Studies Program
Kimberly Green Latin American & Caribbean Center

Sponsors:

Green Family Foundation
South Arts

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