CMCArts is pleased to invite you for the film screening and artist talks “We Were Never Meant to Meet”, within the context of La Vaughn Belle’s solo exhibition “Being of Myth and Memory”. The event is organized in collaboration with the international network Reparative Encounters and the Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center (VICCC).

Reparative Encounters is a project that brings together artists and researchers from the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and Denmark to exchange knowledge and foster artistic collaboration across these locations differently impacted by coloniality. The participating artists and researchers are La Vaughn Belle (USVI), Julie Edel Hardenberg (GL), Dorothy Akpene Amenuke (GH), Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld (DK) and Daniela Agostinho (PT/DK).

The title of the event, “We Were Never Meant to Meet”, is inspired by a quote from La Vaughn Belle’s video Between the Dusk and Dawn (how to navigate an unsettled empire),…