AfriKin Talks 2026: CHANGÁ: Griot Moves
Thursday, 12/03/2026-12/03/2026, 10:00 am-01:00 pm
Maison AfriKin, Scott Galvin Community Center
1600 NE 126th Street, North Miami, FL 33181,
North Miami, Florida, 33181
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Cost: $12.51

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