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9-10am • Breakfast & Registration

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10-11:30am • Cultural Memory, Spiritual Heritage, and Story Telling​

moderated by Monique Miles, panelists: Kelly Brown Douglas and Jessica Davenport 

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11:30am-1pm • Lunch

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1:15-1:45pm • Presentation Block I

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2-3pm • Community Organizing Roundtable

moderated by Maia Peele, panelists: David Ragland, Terri Ofori, &

William Dickerson III

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3:15-3:45pm • Presentation Block II

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4-5pm • Healing and Wholeness

moderated by jarrett hill, panelists: Chantay Love and Melissa Bartholomew

 

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This panel will focus on Afrikan Diasporic spiritual-religious practices that have significant dance traditions. Panelists will discuss the hxstories of dance traditions of Vodou, Candomblé, Umbanda, and Traditional Ifá, and Regla de Ocha-Ifá amongst other spiritual-religious practices, the dance traditions’ role in their sacred spaces, their codification in institutional-secular training, and in choreography alongside Modern and Contemporary compositions. This panel will focus on Afrikan Diasporic spiritual-religious practices that have significant dance traditions. Panelists will discuss the hxstories of dance traditions of Vodou, Candomblé, Umbanda, and Traditional Ifá, and Regla de Ocha-Ifá amongst other spiritual-religious practices, the dance traditions’ role in their sacred spaces, their codification in institutional-secular training, and in choreography alongside Modern and Contemporary compositions.