Examining the understudied poetic, theatrical and musical performances that emerged from transnational contacts between Filipina and Black women performers, this presentation adds to scholarship in Philippine and African American performance histories by centering Black and Filipina women’s relational experiences and collective artistry through an invocation of an “Afro-Filipina Chorus.”
Jewel Pereyra is a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s American Studies program, where she holds a secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. As a 2023-24 Radcliffe Institute Graduate Fellow, she will complete her dissertation, “Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Sound Cultures and Dance Performances,” which examines the understudied poetic, theatrical, and musical performances that emerged from transnational contacts between Filipina and Black women performers across the twentieth century.
LOCATION:Barker Center, Room 133 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20231026T210000Z DTEND:20231026T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR