Workshop presented by Yasmine Espert

What can we learn from the art and organizing of our Caribbean elders? This workshop invites participants to reflect on our elders, their creative experiments, and some of the lessons they’ve left for us to rediscover. Drawing from over a decade of research, interviews, and storytelling rooted in the Caribbean, we’ll do mapping and journaling activities to explore how travel, diaspora, and displacement shape creative work. We’ll also touch on the roles of grief, love, and archives—both personal and institutional.

The session includes a brief, lightning-round presentation on artists and elders who navigated similar journeys. Along the way, we’ll ask: What efforts did they make to become more undisciplined in their artmaking? How did this freedom shape the stories they needed to tell? By the end of our session, participants will gain clarity on what cinema offers them and what their own stories require—whether it’s specific journeys, tools, techniques, community, and other resources.

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