Lili Bernard: Orishas and Saints Through Afro-Cuban American Eyes

2pm: Lili Bernard: Orishas and Saints Through Afro-Cuban American Eyes

Afro-Cuban artist, actor and activist Lili Bernard will be in conversation with special guests speaking about her work. Bernard’s narrative artwork chronicles sexual, racial and domestic violence and explores the roles that performance, ingenuity and resilience play in the survival of the sexual attack on womanhood from antebellum slavery through today's #MeToo Movement. Bernard is also a stARTup LA 2020 exhibitor and her artwork can be found in Room 214.

The discussion will follow the premier of a short performance, entitled Carlota and the Other Harriet. 

Carlota Lucumí (died March 1844) was an enslaved Yoruba woman in Cuba who survived the Middle Passage as a child and was a leader in the Matanzas, Cuba slave rebellion of 1843.  Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was an American author, abolitionist and fugitive slave who wrote the autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861.