An added event to the 2016 Shomburg Symposium, <em><a href="http://tallerpr.org/event/20th-arturo-schomburg-symposium/" target="_blank">Shifting Identities: Expressing AfroLatinidad</a></em><strong><em>, </em></strong>we will present<em><strong> Self -Portrait Family</strong></em>,  a public participatory performance by Shaun Leonardo.

In this performance, <a href="http://elcleonardo.com" target="_blank">Shaun Leonardo</a> draws on his own family history and readings linked to identity politics of the Dominican Republic from colonial and post-colonial literature, developing a non-linear narrative about identity that participants from the audience are asked to embody and do as newly bestowed identities.  Leonardo is a multidisciplinary artist who uses modes of self-portraiture to convey the complexities of masculine identity and question preconceived notions of manhood.

Following is Amber Henry's, <strong><em>Selling Afrolatinidad</em></strong>, a multi-media presentation of video, music, and live performance exploring, from the perspectives of government officials, tourists, and street vendors, the multiple actors involved in marketing blackness as a cultural product in Colombia.

Amber Henry is a Ph. D. Student in Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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[caption id="attachment_4111" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ICantBreathe_still6-copy.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-4111"><img class="wp-image-4111 size-medium" src="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ICantBreathe_still6-copy-300x170.jpg" alt="Shaun Leonardo, &quot;I Can't Breathe&quot;" width="300" height="170" /></a> Shaun Leonardo, "I Can't Breathe" - performance still, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2015[/caption]

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