Sacred Memories: Recalling Garifuna Women Methods of Belonging

In honor of Garifuna Heritage Month (March 11-April 12), join us for a two-day symposium honoring Garifuna Intellectual history. Black and Indigenous Feminist Future Institute Postdoctoral- Fellow Dr. Daisy E. Guzman Nunez. With Special guests from Livingston (Labuga) and New York City, this Garifuna delegation will address the past, present, and future of Garifuna belonging across the diaspora. Through performance, conversation, and food, they recreate the Garifuna interior as an intergenerational, matrilineal space that calls to the ancestors regardless of borders.

Friday, March 28th 4:00-8:00 pm

Brooks Hall, The University of Virginia

Garifuna Women Symposium- Presentations by Gloria Nunez, Ingrid Gamboa, and Berta Englenton

Saturday, March 29th 4:00-8:00 pm

Jefferson School

Garifuna Guatemalan Women from New York Roundtable

with Performances by

Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater  and Lanigu Nati Goyu

Host or Publisher Dr. Daisy Guzman Nunez