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The presentation coincides with the exhibition “A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie” currently housed at the UTPA Visitors Center. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, recreates the triangular trans-Atlantic slave trade route from London to West Africa to the Americas through the story of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship which sank off the coast of Florida near Key West in 1700.
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Haffner, who just this week presented at Yale University’s “Slavery and Public History Conference,” is a descendent of enslaved Africans who returned to freedom in Africa and has devoted his creative life to preserving the history of the trans-Atlantic slavery. His play, “Amistad Kata-Kata,” about the 1839 slave rebellion, premiered a decade before Stephen Spielberg’s film “Amistad” and has been performed internationally to critical acclaim.
Haffner has also combined West African storytelling traditions with radio drama to help Sierra Leone recover from its recent civil war. Several of these radio plays have been rebroadcast internationally on BBC and he has featured on NPR’s nationally syndicated show “Fresh Air.” Active in a wide range of cultural activities, Haffner recently worked on the upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamond” and on a documentary film with Raekwon from the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
The presentation will take place in the Student Union Theater and is free to the public. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and seating is limited, so everyone is encouraged to arrive early.
For more information or if special accommodations are needed, call 956/316-7989.
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