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SUMMARY:**Lecture Postponed Until Further Notice!** 2025 African Diaspora Lecture with Dr. Arturo Lindsay, artist, filmmaker, professor
DESCRIPTION:***Postponement Notice: Please note that the 2025 Diaspora Lecture with Dr. Lindsay has been postponed. We will share the new date when we are able to reschedule. ***\nAbstract: CONGO ART, AESTHETICS AND THE VISUAL CULTURE OF Taller PORTOBELO\nThe painting workshop of Taller Portobelo (the Portobelo Workshop) was founded in the mid-1990s as an artist cooperative dedicated to the preservation of Congo history and culture through works of art. The founders include the renown photographer Sandra Eleta, Virgilio “Yaneca” Esquina, a leading member of the Congo community and artist, cultural investigator and educator Dr. Arturo Lindsay. Portobelo is nestled in a bay on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama.\nThe Congos are descendants of cimarrones – maroons. On January 20th – St Sebastian’s feast day – the Congo flag is raised declaring that Tempe de Soto, meaning, “our time” has begun. This period is dedicated to the remembrance of their ancestors through a series of festive performances know as el juego de Congo.\nCongo Art, Aesthetics and the Visual Culture of Taller Portobelo is a slide/video/lecture that provides an insider’s understanding of a new Afro-centric Panamanian art movement known as Arte Congo that was born at Taller Portobelo. This presentation explores Congo traditions by examining how the artists of Taller Portobelo recount the history of their ancestors by memorializing past, present and unknown Congos. Seminal to Arte Congo is the depiction of the beauty of the Black woman. This presentation includes a description of Congo social structure, music, dance, language, unscripted traditional performances, the use of buffoonery as a subterfuge, material culture, intangible cultural expressions and more.\n
URL:https://stonecenter.unc.edu/events/2025-african-diaspora-lecture-with-dr-arturo-lindsay-artist-filmmaker-professor/
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