About this event
1:00–2:00 pm Methods of Marronage Dr. Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado, Boulder “The Maroon Method”
Dr. Robert A. Benson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University “Maroon Is Not a Color: Physical and Cultural Sustainability in the Fugitive Slave Community of Jamaica”
Mr. Marcus Goffe, Attorney at Law, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Queen Mary, Univ. of London “The Caribbean Court of Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of the Maya v Belize”
2:00pm–3:00pm Maroon Legacies
Dr. Frances Botkin, Towson University “Maroons and the Colonial Police State”
Dr. Corinna Campbell, Assistant Professor of Music, Williams College “Personalizing Tradition: Folkloric Interpretations of Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname.”
Mr. David Brown, Senior Research Fellow, African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Memory Bank “Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Windward Maroons, Jamaica”
3:00 pm – 5:00pm Wrestling Competition in the Sand Pit 5:00 pm–7:00 pm Conversation between Rastas and Maroons with Mutabaruka
7:00 pm–7:30 pm Phillip Supersad and the Akwaaba Drummers
7:30 pm–8:00 pm Charles Town Maroon Drummers and Dancers
8:30 pm–8:30 pm Short Films from Zimbabwe
Jerusarema Dance - traditional Mbende dance "A short film showing performance of Jerusarema, a Mbende traditional dance in Zimbabwe which was recognized as World Intangible Heritage by UNESCO. (15 minutes)"
Mhuri Yekwa Simbanegavi (Simbanevagi family) "A short film about a rural family in Zimbabwe which makes and plays traditional instrument called mbira. (12 minutes)"
Concert
Nacpit Echoing Voices