Join Havana Habibi film Director Joshua Bee Alafia for an interactive online workshop on the transformative power of the creative process. Drawing from his extensive background in filmmaking and leading meditation groups and retreats, joshua bee alafia will facilitate a program aimed to focus creative ideas into action that is healing at the personal and community level. This prolific artist will share best practices in film and meditation as well as share his creative trajectory and philosophy.
Presented as part of Shift. Shimmy. Pivot. - an initiative of Hanan Arts, in partnership with Havana Habibi Festival.
This is a free online workshop but space is limited. Register today to reserve your spot.
ABOUT JOSHUA BEE ALAFIA
joshua bee alafia started making films in high school and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Film in 1995. Since then, he has been freelancing as a Cinematographer and Editor in World Cinema and writing and directing his own feature films. His cinematographer credits in documentaries include; Every Day Art in Cuba, We Just Tellin’ Stories: Rodessa Jones’ Medea Project, Making Tortillas with the Mayans, Besouro Preto, Behind the Green Line, the Road to Sao Tome, the Cuban Hip Hop All Stars, Dub Poet: Oku Onuora, Maybe Dreams Can Come True, 24 Hour Musical, Fashioning Peace in Kenya, and Havana Habibi. His editor credits include the documentaries Juneteenth Community, Maybe Dreams Can Come True, Louisiana Cane, and the Sundance Jury Award Winning Wet Dreams and False Images. He has shot music videos for Luciano, Bikram Singh, King David, 77 Klash and Poets; Ainsley Burrows and Queen Godis. His film credits as writer/ director include the shorts; Drift, the Anti Vigilante, Bold As Love and feature films; Se Safando, The Seed, Let’s Stay Together(the film, not the series) and the award winning Cubamor. A longtime collaborator with the Brooklyn Renaissance, joshua bee alafia now resides in Chicago, IL.
joshua bee alafia’s meditation practice began in 1989 when his mother gave him a mantra to work with. This sparked a rich journey into different styles from the Hawaiian Shamanic, Hindu, Sufi, Dzogchen, Taoist, and Vipassana traditions. Wanting to bring Vipassana practice to the youth, he began teaching mindfulness practice to incarcerated, court involved and system vulnerable youth through New York’s Lineage Project in 2010. He is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He currently teaches mindfulness meditation with South Side Insight Meditation Circle and Taoist Meditation with Immortal Arts Chicago.