AfroMundo Festival: “Manifesting the Envisioned”

Thursday, April 16, 2026 7:00 pm NHCC | Salón Ortega 2026 AfroMundo Festival: “Futurism: Manifesting the Envisioned” Featured Regions: U.S. & U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands Artistic presentation by Puerto Rico’s award-winning Las Nietas de Nonó. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Panelists include Las Nietas de Nonó; liberation strategist and fabulist c.j Davison; multidisciplinary CHamoru artist Dakota Camacho; and Alabama playwright, performer and cultural worker David H. Parker. Moderated by artist AfroMundo Youth Council member, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon. The 2026 AfroMundo Festival is free to the general public with limited seating and includes films, concerts, literature, oral traditions, panel discussions, culinary and other arts to foster a greater understanding of our shared humanity. Learn more at afromundo.org. PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! c.j Davison: c.j Davison (they/them) is a Black, Southern, and queer cultural organizer from Birmingham, Alabama. At the root of their work; cj practices art as liberation strategy to fabulate, investigate, and document the world around us through a Black-queer paradigm. As a cultural organizer and artistic facilitator, cj has raised over $2.5 million for artists and organizations led by and serving people living within the margins of the margins. Their work spans the stage and screen from producing and directing plays and musical across the country to creating short-form documentary and episodic projects that reimagine community, care, and liberation. Dakota Camacho: Dakota Camacho comes from the Matao/CHamoru peoples of Låguas and comes from the villages of Tomhom, Mongmong, and Hagåtña, and descends from the Che’ and Eging clans, and they also have Ilokano lineage. Camacho was born in the lands of the Snohomish and raised in Snohomish, Swinomish, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and Suquamish territories. They grew up in the Soufend of Seatle where they found their calling for poetry, dancing, and chanting. Amongst the Native peoples of that land, Black, Filipinx, and other Peoples working towards justice on earth, they learned of the transformative potential of culture. Camacho arrived in Guåhan, Låguas (the Mariånas) in the year 2011, to find Matao/CHamoru language and culture teachers. Camacho became friends with Jeremy Cepeda, a fino’ håya language teacher, and Jeremy guided Camacho on yo’ña (their) language learning journey. For many years, Camacho traveled around the world sharing their dance and musical creations, and cultivating relationships with Indigenous peoples in Aoteara, Turtle Island (so-called “North/South America”), Hawai’i, and momentarily so-called Australia and Africa. In 2019, Camacho and Cepeda started the Gi Matan Guma’ collective to give life to their ancestral language and traditions in an attempt to walk the path of ináfa’maolek (peace and equity for all living beings). Camacho started the MALI’E’ project to try...