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KANKANTRI on exhibit at Staten Island Museum
Jan
24
to Oct 31

KANKANTRI on exhibit at Staten Island Museum

Here You Are presents new work in fiber, painting, film, photography, and graphic design. Seven Staten Island artists forge a path through the here and now, navigating questions and anxieties around identity, heritage, and home. Featured artwork is introspective and far reaching, exploring spaces that feel familiar, haunting, lonely, and powerful. This triennial exhibition investigates layered worlds hidden in plain sight.

Gabri Christa’s semi-autobiographical film, KANKANTRI, plays on a loop in the exhibit.

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Homework: Architectures of Belonging
Mar
12
to Apr 3

Homework: Architectures of Belonging

Homework: Architectures of Belonging

The founding of the original Weeksville community teaches us that the intimate act of building a home was connected to the public act of claiming a space in the wider society. Black men owning property valued at $250 or more secured the right to vote. But property alone does not make a home.

“Homework” borrows its title from the assertions of scholar Sarah Ahmed, who tells us, “we have much to work out from not being at home in a world.” This labor, “work on and in our homes” seeks the transformation Audre Lorde demanded, requiring new tools to overturn the structures sheltering inequality and domination.

Dwelling in the subjectivity that enacts such transformation, the artists exhibited in Homework, inhabit that first native land, the domestic sphere, and the thresholds between inner and outer worlds. Displacement and yearning appear in these works, alongside gestures and structures that lay claim to space, determined to rebuild.

Presenting an international, multigenerational group, “Homework” is an invitation to the dream houses in which we can reimagine where we live, and how.

Curated by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Weeksville’s inaugural Curator in Residence, on view through April 3, 2026.

Featured Artists:

Menna Agha
Auclair
Beverly Buchanan
sonia louise davis
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs & Gabri Christa
Lonnie Holley
Ajamu Kojo
Zenobia Lee
Zyanya

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FREE ONLINE SALON: YANIQUE HUME + GABRI CHRISTA
Sep
19

FREE ONLINE SALON: YANIQUE HUME + GABRI CHRISTA

Jamaican anthropologist and dancer Dr. Hume analyzes Caribbean dance, embodiment and identity. Curaçaoan choreographer and filmmaker Christa responds through movement and film exploring diasporic memory. They highlight storytelling through body and lens.

RFTMI hosts monthly virtual meetings consisting of select scholars and artists, and their dialogue.

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KANKANTRI shown at Cinedans Young: ROC
Mar
27

KANKANTRI shown at Cinedans Young: ROC

Cinedans Young: ROC

Since 2011, ROC College Zuid (PACT+Dans program) has been coming to Cinedans every year for a special dance film program. Each time, it is a special moment full of wonder and inspiration! This year, we will also be showing Catch my Eye, a dance film by Marga Douma-Alta, made with the students for their final performance in 2025 and inspired by the impressive architecture of Eye.

Gabri Christa’s semi-autobiographical film, KANKANTRI, plays as part of the program.

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“Kankantri” at Fifth Wall Fest
Oct
19
to Oct 20

“Kankantri” at Fifth Wall Fest

Fifth Wall Fest presents Gabri's new film KANKANTRI at an in-person screening of FIFTH WALL Dance Film Competition winner and shortlist on October 19 from 12:00-13:00 in New Manila, QC in the Philippines.


KANKANTRI is the winner of the 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 Competition Grand Jury Prize!

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KANKANTRI Screening at Moving Body-Moving Image 2024
Oct
11

KANKANTRI Screening at Moving Body-Moving Image 2024

Gabri Christa's new film KANKANTRI will be featured at Moving Body - Moving Image 2024, on Friday October 11 at 6pm, as part of the public screening of specially selected films around the black body and environmental justice and the black / brown body relating to ancestry and history.

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“Kankantri” Featured at Conch Shell International Film Festival 2024
Oct
11
to Oct 13

“Kankantri” Featured at Conch Shell International Film Festival 2024

The Conch Shell International Film Festival 2024, a Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora film festival, will feature Gabri Christa’s KANKANTRI as part of their 2024 Official Selection. There will be two screenings, on Friday, October 11th at 5:00 PM and on Sunday, October 13th at 1:30 PM both at Regal UA Midway Cinema. The film will also be available online for the duration of the festival.

KANKANTRI is also nominated for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM!

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Moving Body-Moving Image 2024
Oct
7
to Oct 18

Moving Body-Moving Image 2024

Moving Body-Moving Image MOVES with the times, ever evolving. This year we are not producing a festival, but hosting the Digital Black Dance Ecologies Laboratory, an initiative from Dr. Tia -Monique Uzor. The invitation only Lab will take place from October 11-13, 2024 at the Barnard College Movement Lab

In addition to the Laboratory, Moving Body-Moving Image will curate a two week long public installation at the Movement Lab with works of some of the participating DBDE Laboratory artists / researchers from October 7 - 10 and October 14 - 18.

On Friday October 11 at 6pm,  there will be an additional public screening of specially selected films around the black body and environmental justice and the black / brown body relating to ancestry and history.

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Workshop with Gabri Christa and "Sheila" Screening at Kenyon College
Sep
22
to Sep 23

Workshop with Gabri Christa and "Sheila" Screening at Kenyon College

The Department of Dance, Drama and Film at Kenyon College welcomes guest artist Gabri Christa for a series of events Sept. 22 - 23. On Sunday September 22nd, Gabri will be leading a screendance seminar followed by a screening of her experimental documentary short Sheila and artist discussion. On Monday September 23rd, Gabri will teach a film and motion workshop.

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Gabri at New Waves! Institute
Jul
26
to Aug 1

Gabri at New Waves! Institute

Gabri Christa will show her films Kankantri and Sheila and will teach a screendance workshop at the University of The West Indies during the NEW WAVES! INSTITUTE, a gathering of dance artists, scholars, teachers, students, and leaders in the field of dance who embody the depth and spirit of contemporary dance and performance practice in the Caribbean and its Diasporas. In an organizing principle of ‘Emancipation’, New Waves! participants connect in essential ways that alters and brings out light in one another. Founded and Directed by Makeda Thomas.

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Kankantri at Festival de  VideoDanza de Puerto Rico
Apr
24
to Apr 28

Kankantri at Festival de VideoDanza de Puerto Rico

Kankantri has been selected to be part of the Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico, which brings to Puerto Rico the best of international video dance and dance on screen! They aim to promote uncompromising work that explores synergies with other forms of motion, work that includes bodies that dance forgets and encourage work that explores the future of dance in dialogues with new forms of technology that are redefining the field of participation and access.

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"Kankantri" at Cinedans Fest
Mar
20
to Mar 24

"Kankantri" at Cinedans Fest

  • Cinedans at Eye Film Museum & Online (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gabri Christa’s new film KANKANTRI will be presented at Cinedans Fest in a program entitled “Breaking the Chains”. Cinedans FEST ’24 is a hybrid festival with the main festival programme accessible during both in-person events and through the Cinedans WEB.

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"Sheila" at Women Over 50 Film Festival
Sep
9
to Oct 9

"Sheila" at Women Over 50 Film Festival

Gabri Christa’s experimental documentary Sheila will be presented at the 2023 Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF2023) as part of their Experimental program. All 54 selected films for WOFFF will be available online from September 9, 2023-October 9, 2023 (Early Bird Festival Pass available until August 23rd). A not yet revealed curated selection of films will be screened in person at Depot, Lewes on Saturday September 23rd.

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"Sheila" at DC Black Film Festival
Aug
18
to Aug 30

"Sheila" at DC Black Film Festival

  • The Miracle Theatre (and online) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gabri Christa’s new experimental documentary Sheila will be presented at the 2023 DC Black Film Festival as part of the “This Is What You Came For!” film block. The in-person screening will take place on Friday, August 18th at 5:10pm at The Miracle Theatre. Sheila will then be available online starting August 21st at 3:30 pm.

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"Quarantine" at Dance (Lens) Festival, Australia
Jul
13
to Jul 31

"Quarantine" at Dance (Lens) Festival, Australia

  • Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse (and On Demand) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gabri Christa’s work Quarantine will be touring Australia at the 2023 Dance (Lens) Festival as part of “Material Moves” curated by Siobhan Murphy, which will screen in person at Dancehouse on Thursday July 13th at 7:30pm. Quarantine will also be available On Demand from July 13th-31st, streaming with the other “Material Moves” curated films.

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"Sheila" at Denton Black Film Festival
Jan
28
to Feb 5

"Sheila" at Denton Black Film Festival

  • Alamo Drafthouse Theater 8 and Online (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gabri Christa’s experimental documentary Sheila will be presented at the 2023 Denton Black Film Festival as part of their “When We Move” program screened live at Alamo Drafthouse Theater 8 on Saturday, January 28, 2023 2:30 PM CST. Sheila will then be available for online screening until February 6th.

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