Film Screening & Book Discussion of Ori and The Dialectic is in the Sea

About the film:

"While giving an overall look at the documented history of BLACK MOVEMENTS in Brazil (during the 70's & 80's), ORI tells the story of a woman, Beatriz Nascimento, activist and historian, who searches for her identity through research into the history of the QUILOMBOS as warrior establishments and focuses of cultural resistance, from 15th century Africa to Brazil in the 20th century."

About the Book: 

Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally important figure in the…