Selected Events 2007

Arturo Lindsay and Opal Moore, U.S. artists and professors at Spelman College in Atlanta, present "The Voyage of the Delfina" in Frankfurt

February 7, 2007. Arturo Lindsay and Opal Moore, professors and artists at Spelman College in Atlanta, presented a performance art project in Frankfurt called "The Voyage of the Delfina," which combines images and poetry of the middle passage.

"The Voyage of the Delfina" is a magnificently produced performance art ritual that seeks to symbolize a rite of passage for the millions of men, women and children abducted from West Africa during the Middle Passage of the transatlantic slave trade. Staged aboard the Portuguese slave ship Delfina that set sail in April 1832 from unknown ports of West Africa to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the ship’s bounty of 159 slaves serves as the centerpiece of this heart-wrenching dramatic depiction—a microcosm of the vast number of tormented souls that remains a shameful legacy of this and other slave-trade voyages.

Moore and Lindsay launched the Black History Month series at the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt together with Consul General Jo Ellen Powell. At Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Moore and Lindsay also led a workshop for teachers and students discussing interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and ideas on how to combine the requirements of the curriculum with the personal lives of high-school students.

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Video: Rainer Arnold, U.S. Consulate General