CHANGÁ: Griot Moves | Breakfast, Screening and Conversation for Art Basel

Film, conversation and dominoes with Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe and Prof. Patricia J. Saunders. Part of the 12th AfriKin Art Fair. CHANGÁ: Griot Moves | Breakfast, Screening & Conversation Part of GRIOT: Urgent Storytelling for Our Times | 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair Thursday, December 3, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Maison AfriKin | Scott Galvin Center | 1600 NE 126th Street, North Miami, FL 33181 What does a game of dominoes have to do with survival, art, and the African diaspora? Everything. AfriKin Foundation invites you to an intimate morning of film, scholarship, and cultural play during Miami Art Week 2026. CHANGÁ: Griot Moves brings together the documentary Changá, a keynote by its co-director Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe, a conversation between Prof. Dr. Guadeloupe and Prof. Patricia J. Saunders of the University of Miami, and a live domino art activation. FEATURING Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe Endowed Chair in Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations, University of Amsterdam Senior Research Fellow, Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW) Former President, University of St. Martin. Author of Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University of Mississippi Press, 2022) and Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009). Prof. Patricia J. Saunders Professor of English and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Miami President, Caribbean Studies Association Co-Editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. Author of Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022), shortlisted for the Bocas Prize for non-fiction, and Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Lexington Books, 2007). MORNING PROGRAMME 10:00 AM | Doors Open and Light Breakfast 10:30 AM | Film Screening: Changá 11:25 AM | Keynote: Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe 12:00 PM | In Conversation: Prof. Dr. Francio Guadeloupe and Prof. Patricia J. Saunders, followed by questions from the audience 12:30 PM | Domino Activation: Art, Play and Exchange 1:00 PM | Close THE FILM Changá uses the Caribbean game of dominoes as a lens on how Dutch Caribbean communities create, express, and thrive within the Netherlands. From Hip Hop to Dancehall to Punk Rock and Drum and Bass, the film weaves Caribbean philosophy, rhythm, and cultural code into a meditation on diaspora, conviviality, and belonging. Directors: Francio Guadeloupe and Manpreet Brar Cinematography and Editing: Ian del Angel Featuring: Juny Martina, Ray Fuego, Amy Miyu, Earthquake Brass Band Runtime: 55 minutes | Dutch, English, Papiamentu THE DOMINO EXPERIENCE The morning closes at the table. Guests are invited into a live domino activation, designed as both art experience and cultural conversation, where the game becomes a shared language across the diaspora. The game is the medium. The table is the classroom. PART OF GRIOT: URGENT STORYTELLING FOR OUR TIMES CHANGÁ: Griot Moves is part of the 12th Annual AfriKin Art Fair, curated by Dr. Joseph L. Underwood, November 29 to December 6, 2026 at Maison AfriKin during Miami Art Week. GRIOT is on public view daily, November 30 to December 6. Light breakfast is included. Seating is limited. Event page: afrikin.org/afrikin-changa.html Questions: [email protected] | 305-760-5515 AfriKin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) African diaspora cultural institution headquartered in North Miami, Florida. EIN: 85-2592611.