Afro travesti cinema evening
Lola Lieven,
Rodenrijsstraat 43,
Amsterdam
Eleggua Luna Laverde (@_mojana) is a multidisciplinary afrocaribbean artist from Bazurto, Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Now based in Cali, she is the founder of Mojana Estudios (@mojana_presenta), an audiovisual studio centering black and afroindigenous trans and queer voices.
Her practice explores the ways black trans (travesti) and queer (marica) communities navigate ancestry, weaving together past, present, and future to both nourish her community and honor the travestis and maricas who paved the way.
She has curated Macumbas, a project that intertwines ballroom culture with yoruba spirituality and locally rooted black antipatriarcal anticolonial trans and queer practices in Cali. As a filmmaker, through music, documentary and the short film Danzan Las Luciérnagas, she has ventured into the realms of Afrofuturism (although she has a lot to say about that term).
This evening, Eleggua Luna Laverde will share her work and engage in conversation with the audience.
Time: 16:00 merienda with arepas
18:00 talk and screening