HaMapah / The Map: Dance-on-Film | Screening & Storycircle + Afterparty

Join us for the Canadian premiere of HaMapah / The Map Dance-on-Film with award-winning U.S. artists, director Daniel Banks and dancer/choreographer Adam W. McKinney, the married artist duo and founders of DNAWORKS, dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts.

This stunningly beautiful film (30 min.) accompanied by a stirring soundtrack follows McKinney’s return to his ancestral homelands in Benin, Poland, and across the United States to trace the intersections of his African American, Native American and Jewish heritages. The work was created as a way to investigate the possibility of healing transgenerational traumas and celebrating the fullness of McKinney’s mixed-heritage identity.

Following the screening, the audience comes together for DNAWORKS signature “storycircle” inviting dialogue on how viewers’ own personal stories and experiences intersect with the key themes of family, identity and heritage laid out in the film. The storycircles – which the artists have led over two decades in 17 countries – offer community members an opportunity to get closer, enhance or build relationships and engage in community healing.

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Presented as part of a season-long production of FENTSTER, Prosserman JCC and DNAWORKS together with No Silence on Race, Jewish&, LGBTQ+ at the J, dance Immersion, Jews of Colour Canada, Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism and BAND: Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue. Made possible with the support of the Kultura Collective.

Learn more about the exhibtion, HAMAPAH, the May 23 art party and more, click here