Marronage in the Americas

Please make sure to register for each event you plan to attend. FILM SCREENING: "QUILOMBO" FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 5:30 P.M. HISTORIC TABERNACLE CHURCH 801 8TH STREET, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33401 This is the first event of the three-day program. Screening of "Quilombo"-- renowned feature film of the maroon community of Palmares, Brazil. Evening includes reception and discussion. This event is sponsored by the Consulate General of Brazil. The weekend's activities, commemorating Maroon history across the Americas, are sponsored by FBHRP, Inc. and held in partnership with Loxahatchee Battlefield Preservationists and Palm Beach County Parks. (Registration required) FILM SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ON MARRONAGE IN THE AMERICAS SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 10:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. HISTORIC TABERNACLE CHURCH 801 8TH STREET, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33401 Screening of films of marronage in Florida, Jamaica, Surinam, North Carolina (The Dismal Swamp) with filmmakers Clare Vickery, Dr. Anthony Dixon, Hari Williams, Roy Anderson, other scholars and authors of Maroon history, and more. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION AND SCREENING OF MALUALA SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 7:00 P.M. HISTORIC TABERNACLE CHURCH 801 8TH STREET, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33401 Keynote presentation and screening of Maluala, the late Sergio Giral's feature film of the Maroons of Cuba. ANNUAL SEMINOLE MAROON SPIRITUAL REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 10:00 AM LOXAHATCHEE RIVER BATTLEFIELD PARK (AT RIVERBEND PARK) 9060 W. INDIANTOWN RD., JUPITER, FL The three-day event culminates on Sunday, January 18, as a tradition of 33 years continues with the Annual Seminole Maroon Spiritual Remembrance at Riverbend Park. Program of Speakers begins at 10:00 am, and tour of battlefield site begins at 1:00 pm. Above image: “Sanctuary” by Johnny Montgomery, South Carolina Sea Islands Seminole Maroon Descendant. Artwork on exhibit January 16 and 17 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 801 8th Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.