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Journalists Taylin de la Caridad Jimenez Sevilla and Ana González Vila join Camila Tiburcio Rubio to discuss how reparto’s music, performance, and subcultures shape new forms of expression and belonging in Cuba and its diaspora.

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December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Reimagined by contemporary artists, the event honors the creative legacy of the National Black Theatre.

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November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Visualizing Legacies and Futures reflects the historical and contemporary memory of the National Black Theatre, celebrating its ongoing legacy in shaping Black performance, art, and cultural imagination.

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November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Join us on Tuesday, 12/10 @ 3:30 pm for “Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti”

📍 Virtual Event
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Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti Tuesday, December 10 at 3:30 PM EST On October 2nd, 2024, the Dominican Republic announced that it would drastically increase deportations to Haiti with a target of deporting 10,000 people each week. By the end of the campaign’s first month, Dominican authorities reported that over 60,000 had been repatriated to Haiti. On International Human Rights Day, join NYU Law’s Global Justice Clinic, Edwidge Danticat, Dominican and Haitian activists, and the Hemispheric Network for Haitian Migrants’ Rights for a webinar discussing the human rights violations resulting from this deportation campaign and actions to address the ongoing harms. This is a virtual online event that requires registration. Interpretation will be provided in English, Kreyol, and Spanish.
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Join us today, 3/13 @ 5:30pm for “Movements for Reparations: Racial Justice, Climate Justice, and the Case of Haiti”

📍 NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South – Snow Dining Room, Vanderbilt Hall
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4hl8DQk

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This year marks 200 years since France imposed an independence ransom on Haiti–which the country spent more than 100 years paying off–that has long grounded the country’s claim to reparations. At the same time, there is increasing recognition globally that colonialism and slavery have shaped the unequal, racist, and unjust impacts of the climate crisis in Haiti, the Caribbean, and around the world. Speakers will address how the unjust impacts of climate change–as outlined in the Global Justice Clinic and The Promise Institute for Human Rights’ recent report, Bay Kou Bliye, Pote Mak Sonje: Climate Injustice in Haiti and the Case for Reparations–may connect to and reinforce demands for reparations for colonialism, slavery, and ongoing racial injustice. They will also examine the possibilities and limitations of international law to advance reparations claims.
March 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Join us tomorrow, 2/27 @ 6pm for “Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance”

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor — Conference Space
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4jaxc4C

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Join us for “Women’s Voices in the NYC Afro-Puerto Rican Musical Renaissance”! This event will feature women who were part of the early bomba and plena scene in New York City before the emergence of Los Pleneros de la 21, and women who were inspired by this East Harlem-based ensemble to form all-women groups. It is part of the Pleneros de la 21 Oral History Project, and is directed by Elena Martínez, 2025 Folklorist in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.
February 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Join us Friday, 5/2 @ 6pm for “An Elders’ Gathering & African Dance Circle: The History & Humble Beginnings of Afrofuturism from a Sankofa Lens”

📍 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn – Multipurpose Room
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3EtkpLl

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We invite you to join us for an exploration of Art, Movement, and Music, curated by the Hemispheric Institute’s first Folklorist in Residence, Aissatou Bey-Bara. This conversation and community dance circle reflects on the foundational influences and creative beginnings of African performance arts. It measures the long collective impact of African dance, visual arts, music and performance in a global diaspora – an impact that informs the Afro future. Panelists Aquah Tcherbu Beale, Januwa Moja, Amaniyea Payne, and Obara Wali Rahman King will discuss the power of the drum, of embodied performance, and the visual grandeur of African regalia. The panel will be followed by a movement workshop led by Amaniyea Payne and drummer Obayana Olumide. This program is the culminating event of the series, “We Not New To This, We True To This”, curated by Archivist Camille Lawrence, at the Hemispheric Institute. Camille will moderate the event, which will be documented and preserved in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL).
April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Join us tonight, 12/9 @ 5 pm for the “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective”: Book Launch Party

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor – Conference Space
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“Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective”: Book Launch Party Monday, December 9th at 5:00 PM Join us for a book launch party for “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating Performance Archives,” celebrating the first-ever retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin. This book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as performer, curator, and community activist and asks: How do archives perform? With a riot of full-color photographs, “Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective” provides unparalleled access to Dobkin’s artistic process and production from the last thirty years.
December 9, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Join us tomorrow, 12/10 @ 3:30 pm for “Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti”

📍 Virtual Event
🔗 Register: bit.ly/3BbecSt

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Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti Tuesday, December 10th, 3:30 PM EST On October 2nd, 2024, the Dominican Republic announced that it would drastically increase deportations to Haiti with a target of deporting 10,000 people each week. By the end of the campaign’s first month, Dominican authorities reported that over 60,000 had been repatriated to Haiti. On International Human Rights Day, join NYU Law’s Global Justice Clinic, Edwidge Danticat, Dominican and Haitian activists, and the Hemispheric Network for Haitian Migrants’ Rights for a webinar discussing the human rights violations resulting from this deportation campaign and actions to address the ongoing harms.
December 9, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Archives Without Dust: Research Practices and the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library

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Archives Without Dust: Research Practices and the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 7:00 PM Hemispheric Institute — Virtual Conversation As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the Hemispheric Digital Video Library (HIDVL), the largest digital video archive devoted to performance practices in the Americas, Hemi launches a series of conversations about preserving performance, archival practices, and research scholarship. We reflect on the collection’s conception, its reach, its politics, and its meanings, as well as its importance to scholars whose research plumbs or builds the collection. Join us for a conversation between present and past HIDVL Collections Specialists, Dr. Daniel Howell (New York University) and Ph.D. candidate Jehan Roberson (Cornell University), as they meditate on the relationship between their work as scholars and their work as archivists. hemispheric.org/fw24-10
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Join us Thursday, 2/6 @ 6pm for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture”

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor Conference Space
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🔗 Register for Zoom: bit.ly/4ast3oL

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It’s About “The Movement,” Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture February 6th 2025 at 6:00 PM We invite you to join us for “It’s About ‘The Movement,’ Not Only The Steps: Honoring Sankofa in the Afrofuture.” This conversation will bring together key figures, trailblazers, and artists to take a deep dive into the origins, migrations, and evolution of African folkloric dance and music in the West. 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence, Aissatou Bey Bara, will lead us in a dialogue with elders through a Sankofa lens by honoring the past, celebrating the present, and mapping the future.
January 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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A conversation with the creative leaders of South Africa’s Magnet Theatre on the company’s history, contemporary work, and theatre as cultural infrastructure.

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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Reimagined by contemporary artists, the event honors the creative legacy of the National Black Theatre.

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November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Presented by the National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.

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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Presented by the National Black Theatre, the Fall 2025 Arts Institution in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute.

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November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Visualizing Legacies and Futures reflects the historical and contemporary memory of the National Black Theatre, celebrating its ongoing legacy in shaping Black performance, art, and cultural imagination.

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November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This work is produced by the Hemispheric Institute in collaboration with TEATRO LATEA. Radical Goddesses is a ticketed event.

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October 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Join us Thursday 10/02 at 12:30 pm for Huracán Architectures: Artist Talk and Luncheon

📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
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September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Convened by our Fall 2025 Artist in Residence, Charlotte Brathwait. Participants include Malick Welli, Ebony Noelle Golden, Dr. Wendell Marsh, Kamau Sadiki, and Anaïs Maviel.

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September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Join us TONIGHT 09/18 @ 6 pm for “I Was There”: Stories from the Elders of the House/Ball Community
📍 NYU Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor
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September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The Hemispheric Institute is pleased to announce the beginning of a new academic year. We invite you to join us for forthcoming events and projects, and kindly ask that you mark your calendars.

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September 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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We are looking forward to their work this semester!

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September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Join us 09/10 from 3-6 PM for the 20 Cooper Live! Provostial Centers and Institutes’ Open House
📍 20 Cooper Square, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor
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September 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM