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2024-2025, Year of Haven:Harbor

CEE NEWS #61

 At this moment, when all that is solid is melting into air (again), we must attune ourselves to both old and new forms of institutional categorization, and in so attuning, curate relations of care (redundancy intended!) with each other and the worlds around us.  Happy summer everyone!  Read a book, see a show, make some music, just chill…
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UPCOMING EVENTS

Immanuel Wilkins BLues blood, Sonia Sanchez and Imani Perry

This performance and conversation will be an offering in color, sound and transmuting the of violence state and carceral systems in ways that Black people have always embodied through relationship to community, self and spirit. The performance reflects on the idea of home places and witness, with Sonia Sanchez and Immanuel Wilkins sharing roots, inheritances and formational experiences in Philadelphia. The performance will also involve cooking by chef, farmer and educator Laquanda Dobson, and will be followed by a conversation with the writer and professor Imani Perry, author of the recently published and critically acclaimed Black in Blues.  
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ASMR4apocalypse

For our Spring Fellow s final event , zavé martohardjono takes us into a soundscape of multichannel sound and performance, to set the room to facilitate our visualization of geological futures. Expanding a solo performance into a collaborative work with Philadelphia artists, zavé martohardjono is joined by performance into a collaborative work with Philadelphia artists , zavé martohardjono is joined by performers Mel Rodman and Amalía Colon-Nava and asmr4apocalypse features the biomaterial sculptures of Cecilia McKinnon. Music by Daphne Silbiger and spatialized sound design by Mike Clemow New choreographic research for this iteration was cultivated in zavé's Center for Experimental Ethnography at the Penn Museum course and local dance workshop made possible by the support of Leah Stein Dance Studios. 

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APRIL 23rd |  6Pm | Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum 

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APRIL 26th |  7:30Pm | vox populi

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RESTITUTION CINEMA PRoGRAM

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March 8th  | Rainey Auditorium| 6-8pm

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March 15th  | Rainey Auditorium |  6-8pm

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March 7th  | PUblic trust | 

CAMRA presents RESTITUTION CINEMA!
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Restitution Cinema is a film program that considers the impossibility of repair, and the traction and possibility in reaching for it anyways. It is about the many errant pathways towards recovery, removed from the idealism of a pure precolonial, pre-contact past, and rooted in the material, psychic and embodied ways of restoring our cultural endowments in the current anti-colonial terrain.​

PAST EVENTS

Love Sent Across Seas: Preserving Connection in Philadelphia’s Caribbean Disapora

 Love Sent Across Seas: Preserving Connection in Philadelphia’s Caribbean Disapora was a a collaborative CEE + Caribbean Community of Philadelphia pop-up art exhibit at the Penn Museum
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For Caribbean migrants living in Philadelphia, a simple shipping barrel can hold a whole lot of love for families back home. Stories of remembrance and care sent from afar, alongside personal histories, in this special exhibition of painted shipping barrels and artwork from diaspora communities. This exhibit included the work of Frito Bastien, Leniqueca Welcome, Dori Stewart, Joy O. Ude and Edwin Nwaoguegde, Rebecca Rose Metzger,  Neisha Terry and Tennecia Dacass.
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Curated by Alissa Jordan and Miranda Alexander
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Alissa Jordan and Miranda Alexander

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Penn Museum Nov. 8 - 30th 
    

From GUlf to gulf to gulf

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, was a film screening on Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 6-8:00pm that follows trade journeys between western India, eastern Africa and the Persian/Arabian gulf across a sea of piracy and sanctions. The event will also feature a public conversation with artists and CEE Fall Fellows Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran of the collaborative studio CAMP.
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Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran

presented with the Department of Cinema & Media Studies and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. 
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The Public Trust



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