Joining us at 1 PM (AST) on Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 is CATAPULT Grantee, Jonathan van Arneman (Sint Maarten), who will be speaking with Dr. Yanique Hume (Barbados)!
Jonathan van Arneman (AJ) is a dancer, choreographer, and musician from Soualiga (the indigenous name for St Martin, meaning land of salt). He is the 2019 recipient of the Momentum New Dance Works grant for emerging choreographers in Minneapolis and is the current Artist in Residence at the National Institute of Arts (NIA) in Soualiga. His training includes Yorchha, Haitian Dance, West African dance forms, Modern, Caribbean Social and Traditional Dances, and Capoeira. His current project, entitled Atlantis Rebirth, is both a nod to the defiant history of black peoples in the Caribbean as well as an imagination of a post-colonial Caribbean utopia.
Dr. Yanique Hume is a multifaceted scholar, priestess, dancer and choreographer with extensive research expertise and specialization across the Americas and the African Diaspora. Operating from the disciplines of cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and performance studies. Dr. Hume’s research experience and teaching areas include: religious and performance cultures of the African diaspora, Caribbean cultural thought, popular culture, migration and diasporic identities. As a multilingual researcher, her fieldwork experience in the sacred arts and African diaspora performance expressions are centered in the Caribbean and Latin America, especially Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, Brazil and Colombia. In applied research, her work has focused on the creative industries and cultural policy; migration and tourism; museological production and management.
Huge thanks to the CATAPULT Partners The American Friends of Jamaica, Kingston Creative and Fresh Milk for making this happen, and remember to tune in again at 4 PM to see Dr. Hume in discussion with Trinidadian dancer & cultural practitioner, Sonja Dumas!
CATAPULT | A Caribbean Arts Grant presents our first session of the Lockdown Virtual Salon Programme, creating virtual platforms for Caribbean-based cultural practitioners from all across the region to share and explore their evolving practices. Each selected cultural practitioner has been paired with a co-discussant in their field for an open conversation about their work.
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