Walking With My Ancestors: Ama Aduonum

On Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m., you’re invited to attend Walking with My Ancestors, a one-woman, multimodal performance piece by Ama Aduonum, to be offered live over Zoom.

Event link will be posted to the UVA Music Department’s page the day of the event.

The performance generates fresh perspectives on the experiences of the nameless Black women, men, and children who once lingered in the dungeons of West Africa and suffered the agony of the middle passage.

Through live drumming, singing, dancing, and acting the performer explores how today’s racial and cultural problems connect with truths of our shared and painful pasts. The presentation concludes with a “talk-back” that allows the audience to have deepened conversations about trauma, equity, multicentricity, ghosts of slavery, and emotional justice, moving us towards the healing of our hurting communities.

More information at the UVA Music department’s page.

Sponsored by the UVA IHGC Lab in Performance Cultures & Embodied Creative Practices, with support from the UVA departments of Music and Drama.