Jenkins, a multi-instrumentalist, follows the thread of African American history that weaves through America’s traditional music forms, and shares histories, expressed through recovered songs, many of which were forsaken after emancipation due to the proliferation of Blackface minstrels stereotyping African American traditions. As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens band, Hubby has performed at festivals and venues around the world, earning both Grammy and Americana award nominations. Today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music through his dynamic solo performances and engaging workshops.

This film documents the military genius of Nanny of Jamaica, one of the most successful yet least recognized heroines of slave rebellions.

Screening is followed by a panel discussion of inspiring, historic rebel women. Panelists include Ronald D. Cummings, Jamaican Maroon Scholar; Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Costa Rican author of award winning historical novel Finding La Negrita; Diana Carolina Angulo Ramires, co-author of "Unveiling the past: Enslaved Lives Matter,"" and Belinda Deneen Wallace, UNM Associate Professor of Caribbean and African Diasporic literatures, Afrofuturism, Queer Studies, and more.

A literary reading of poetry and prose. Poet Shirley Campbell Barr is author of 5 poetry collections, among them De Negro Vengo Ataviada, the seminal Rotundamente Negra y Otras Poemas, and Palabras Indelebles de Poetas Negras. Suzanne Barr is the author of, My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen. Yashika Graham is a Jamaican writer, visual artists, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Some of Us Can Go Back Home.

“Farming While Black” examines the historical plight of Black Farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.

Screening is followed by a panel discussion with New Mexico Black farmers. Alyssa Frye is a community organizer, holistic health advocate, and nomadic eathworker. Shahid Mustafa is the founder of Taylor Hood Farms and Board Vice President of the New Mexico Agrarian Commons. Eugene Pickett is Chairman Founder of Black Farmers and Ranchers.

Throughout the Americas, Afro and Indigenous communities are doing the global work of conservation. Sonic Forest features two such Colombian communities risking their lives to preserve the earth.

Screening followed by a Panel Discussion. Jose Luis Rengifo is of Rights & Resources and of Procesos de Comunidades Negras which this past June succeeded in having ancestral land rights recognized for 150 maroon families. Yineth Balanta Mina is with Asomuafroyo, a Columbian grassroots, rural activist women’s group that successfully expelled toxic miners from their territories. Shirley Campbell Barr is a Poet & Costa Rican Human & Land Rights activist. Sofia Martinez is a Farmer & Land Rights activist: one of the many local South Valley residents who fought for the detoxification of their neighborhood, lands which now make up the only urban wildlife refuge in the United States.

For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, of cultural retention, and innovation. Come join in this culinary discussion with Angelica Mena: Afro-Columbian Chef and Founder of San Francisco’s Sukulentas; and with Chef Suzanne Barr, recipient of a 2021 Social Advocate of the Year Award, and featured in acclaimed documentary “The Heat: A kitchen (R)evolution.”

This wondrous documentary short was directed by young activists who decided to tell their own story after a documentary was done about them without their consent.

Screening followed by a Panel Discussion. Lauryn Mills-Bohannon is an Artivist and AfroMundo Collective member. Vanessa Eiland is a Bold Futures Ascend Parent Advisor focused on moving young parents ages 18-24 toward opportunity. Elijah Cage is a Leader for Change Fellow at Generation Justice, a national radio program run by youths and young adults. Kiara Holloway, a Voting Rights Activist, has worked for multiple legislators. Kimora Toledo is an advocate for New Mexico’s Indian Family Protection Act.

An enhanced Reader’s Production of a play by Karen Jones Meadows. "In the 1800s a 150-Year plan fueled by war, vision, passion, naïveté, rage, secrets, entrepreneurship, and African-American sweat, fashion a clandestine community determined to leave a living-legacy of sovereignty and strategies for generations."

New Mexico resident Karen Jones Meadows is the author of multiple anthologized and performed plays, and the recipient of a 2020 Story Protector Award. She has presented at the United Nation, UNESCO, International Women’s Economic Forum, and much more.

A Grammy Nominee and Winner of a Premio Shock, Nidia Góngora is a singer, composer, tradition-bearer, folklorist and champion of the Pacific coast’s Afro-Colombian cultural heritage. Her songs bridge the roots music of her native Timbiquí with that of other world genres for a breathtaking musical dialogue.

In her own words, "Timbiquí’s traditional music is a sound that comes from the jungle, and the sea. It’s a sound that represents the natural elements. So we have the marimba de chonta which sounds like rain, we have the bombo and the cununo which are drums that represent the thunder, the strength, and power that inhabits the jungle. All of them are made with materials found there. That’s why the music made in the Pacific region is always reminding us that we live amongst nature, and we have to live in harmony with it."