CHANGÁ: Griot Moves | Breakfast, Screening and Conversation for Art Basel
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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 – 1:00 PM
Maison AfriKin | Scott Galvin Center | 1600 NE 126th Street, North Miami, FL 33181
AfriKin Foundation invites you to an intimate morning of film, scholarship, and cultural play as part of the 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair's surrounding programming during Miami Art Week 2026.
What does a game of dominoes have to do with survival, art, and the African diaspora in Europe? Everything.
CHANGÁ: Griot Moves brings together the documentary film Changá, a keynote address by its co-director Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe, and a live domino art activation that transforms a classic Caribbean game into a space for cross-cultural dialogue. Light breakfast is served. Seating is limited.
MORNING PROGRAMME
10:00 AM | Doors Open + Light Breakfast
10:30 AM | Film Screening: Changá (55 minutes)
11:25 AM | Keynote Address: Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe
12:00 PM | Open Q&A and Conversation
12:30 PM | Domino Activation: Art, Play & Cultural Exchange
1:00 PM | Close
ABOUT THE FILM
Changá, co-directed by Francio Guadeloupe and Manpreet Brar, with cinematography and editing by Ian del Angel, uses the Caribbean game of dominoes as an analytical lens to document 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 features artists Juny Martina, Ray Fuego, Amy Miyu, and the Earthquake Brass Band, weaving Caribbean philosophy, rhythm, and cultural code into a meditation on diaspora, conviviality, and belonging.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe holds the Endowed Chair in Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations at the University of Amsterdam and serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW). He is the 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), with more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. He is a former President of the University of St. Martin and one of the leading voices in Caribbean public anthropology.
THE DOMINO ACTIVATION
Following the keynote and Q&A, guests are invited to participate in a live domino experience designed as both art activation and cultural exchange, honoring the game's deep roots in Caribbean social life and its central role in the film's philosophical framework.
CONTEXT
This program is presented as part of GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times, the curatorial theme of the 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair (November 29 – December 6, 2026), curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, hosted at Maison AfriKin, AfriKin Foundation's permanent cultural home in North Miami.
Light breakfast included. Space is limited. Register now to secure your seat.
AfriKin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) African diaspora cultural institution headquartered in North Miami, Florida. EIN: 85-2592611.
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