Screening and Discussion

MIAMI RARA (MR)

The Jewel Box, YoungArts, 2100 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

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Miami Rara takes its form from the Haitian carnival tradition. For the past 200 years, the Rara masquerade (ceremonial) dance has been performed during Lent by Haitians and their diaspora — descendants of African and Indigenous Caribbean people —as a festive symbol of anti-colonial resistance. Miami Rara is multi-generational, appropriate for all ages, and is designed to embrace everyone, serving as a meeting place for audience and visitors to engage with Miami’s pan-Caribbean heritage and communities.

Charo Oquet’scommunity-engaged practice dates back to the 1980s. In 1997 she founded Miami Arts collaborated and in 2004 she founded Edge Zones, again in Miami, FL. She has exhibited internationally at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC), Italy; Ft. Lauderdale Museum; Bass Museum; New Zealand National Gallery; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ.; New Zealand National Museum; Casal Solleric, Spain; Nikolaj Kunsthal; Denmark Ballhaus; Naunynstraße, Berlin; Kunstnerne Hus, Norway. Her work is found in the permanent collections of the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Spain; the Ft Lauderdale; Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo and Frost Museum of Florida; New Zealand National Museum, Wellington, N.Z.; Govett-Brewter Art Gallery, N.Z.