11AM - 12PM: BRUNCH
12PM - 1PM: FILM SCREENING
1PM - 2:15PM: PANEL DISCUSSION
TIFFANY MADERA, FILMMAKER AND FOUNDER OF HAVANA HABIBI
This event is part of "Havana Habibi Week", a series of dance workshops, community talks and film screenings in Miami, presented by Tiffany Madera, founder of the Havana Habibi Bellydance Festival in Cuba.
"Havana Habibi is a respite from the exhaustion and gender related trauma our culture is experiencing now", states Madera. #METOO and #WHYIDIDNTREPORT has given voice and brought to the surface wounds that have been buried, exposing systemic and structural forms of gender violence that are both universal and localized."
”Havana Habibi - both the film and festival, offers an alternative space for women to create and heal,” Madera continues. “The film will surprise you, take you on a journey and the hope is that the audience will arrive at a deeper and renewed space within, that catalyzes action, tolerance and understanding. My work is about identity, hybridity and gender".
Tiffany "Hanan" Madera is the creator of the "Bellydance Cuba" project in 2002. Since then, Madera has founded the yearly Havana Habibi Festival modeled on an intersectional feminist and social justice model providing no cost participation for 200 Cuban women- and has produced the documentary film Havana Habibi, which documents her 13 year process of creating a bellydance movement in Havana, Cuba. Her theatrical productions and projects examine topics such as female genital mutilation, gender and domestic violence, human trafficking and structural oppression. Madera's Havana Habibi is also one of 43 projects awarded The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight Arts Challenge 2017 with a matching grant from the Ware Foundation.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy. For more, please visit knightfoundation.org.
Ticket price is $20, which includes the brunch, film screening and bellydance roundtable.
The Brunch is generously supported by Whole Foods, Mojo Donuts and Nespresso.
