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GSM: Documentary Films & Embodied Healing

  • Green Space Miami 7200 Biscayne Boulevard Miami, FL, 33138 United States (map)

Join us for an afternoon of films and conversation around the topics of displacement, identity, and memory. After a Curator's Tour, a panel of experts will discuss dance, diaspora, and social justice along with the presentation of two documentaries.

Seating is limited. This is a free event with a suggested donation of $10 accepted to support Hanan Arts and Global South Movements.


Choose our Full Day Ticket to immerse yourself in the experience of Global South Movements, or select a ticket for a specific event from our schedule below.

SCHEDULE

12 PM - 12:35 PM - Curator's Tour

Tour the Global South Movements exhibition, an immersive experience of new works by globally acclaimed artists Ya La’Ford and Juana Valdes with recent commissions by local artists Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez and Karelle Levy of KREL - alongside other never before seen works. Together the artists’ works discuss resistance, the body, cultural inheritance, fluidity, temporality, identity, and gender. With large format photos, dance, immersive video, photography, textile art, mixed media installations, and multiple activations.


1 PM - 2 PM - Ya Habibi Story of a Song (2020) Screening

After the screening, Gina Margillo, Filmmaker and Professor of Communication, Barry University, will discuss story development in the film Ya Habibi: The Story of a Song and lead a brief storytelling workshop.

2 PM - 3 PM - Havana Habibi (2016)

Havana Habibi (2016) documentary screening with a post-film discussion, hosted by Tiffany Madera. The documentary looks at the cross-cultural exchange and inter-migration between Africa, Cuba, and the USA; what it means to be a Cuban Belly-dancer in Revolutionary Cuba as well as the Diaspora, and travels throughout time, geography, and space to tell a human story of healing, transformation, empowerment, liberation, and Identity through the metaphor of Bellydance.


3:15 PM - 4:15 PM - Embodied Healing Workshop

Dr. Sambra Zaoui, Barry University, will lead a discussion on how our neurobiology is our autobiography and how we understand implicit memory in our bodies. The interactive presentation will include learning various ways to discharge trauma in our bodies, including tracking, EFT tapping, and giving voice to our bodies.

Space is limited, RSVP today.

Suggested donation of $10 to support Hanan Arts.



About Hanan Arts

Originally known as Mid Eastern Dance Exchange, Hanan Arts is a Miami-Based 501C-3 organization founded in 1991. Hanan Arts globally innovates the genre of Raks Baladi (Belly Dance) as an instrument for social justice and community connection through workshops, film, interdisciplinary performance, social practice collaborations, international projects,  visual art and academic investigation.

Later Event: April 8
GSM: Dance Workshops