The Deep Diasporic Dive
Channel: CAM/MAC Anthropologie / Anthropology / U Ottawa
Date: 2019-01-18

The Deep Diasporic Dive is the attempt to access your past through
activism and advocacy by becoming one with the present and future of your own community. Follow me as I leave the comfort of my couch to discover the African, Black and Caribbean advocacy project called Connecting the Dots. Backstage as well as on set I will find friendly faces, collect pearls of wisdom both physical and spiritual from the old as much as from the young and find a space where I can simply and comfortably, be.

This film surrounds part of the core Connecting the Dots team (Eldon, Natalie, Soraya, Luciana & Moïse) as we both plan and run our community events in Ottawa and Montreal. This film was crafted with care in order to show an unglamorized but no less exciting and ultimately rewarding experience advocating for one’s own community. The film touches on friendship, duty, professionalism as well as keeping a lighter side and sense of humor. Expect an inner dialogue regarding your view of the next generation, your own sense of belonging and advocacy in your own life. You can also expect to make a friend in my interviewee as she gives a fresh perspective on the project that some of our more veteran members may have outgrown.