Vintage Black Canada's founder and curator, Aaron T. Francis shares his family genealogy and journey.
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About this event:
From Ghana's Ashanti Empire in West Africa to the Island of Jamaica to the Panama Canal and many places in between - join Vintage Black Canada founder and curator Aaron T. Francis as he shares his family genealogy and journey through photo and conversation.
Audience level: Beginner/ Intermediate
About Aaron:
Aaron T. Francis is a doctoral student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a multidisciplinary artist, and a curator. Images from Aaron’s Vintage Black Canada™ initiative have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (in collaboration with CAFKA) and at the BAND Gallery, Toronto. Currently, Aaron is producing a documentary in collaboration with Kyle Sawyer and Taylor Jones (Digital Sabbath) about his Juno-award winning uncle, Kitchener-Waterloo’s own Errol Starr.
Vintage Black Canada™ is a multidisciplinary creative initiative documenting the transnational modern history of the African Diaspora in Canada with often specific reference to Kitchener-Waterloo, centered on archiving the visual and oral history of Black diaspora families and all they have richly contributed to Canada’s cultural milieu
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