The Lunch Break is a curated, multi-genre and multi-disciplinary creative and scholarly activation each month (September through April) at the beautiful and vibrant Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay Campuses that uplifts the Global Borderless Caribbean in all its dimensions.
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Once per month we will draw in students, faculty, staff and publics, and provide food for the mind, the body and the soul. We welcome everyone from the university community and public to gather in the Atrium of ACII to embrace music, ideas and arts for a curated brief interaction to strengthen our collective community. Part of iWitness: The Lunch Break is the sharing of FIU’s research and creative excellence. iWitness: The Lunch Break includes a social media campaign as well as curated thematic playlists each month.
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Sept. 12, 2025 |
The Global Borderless CaribbeanDance Performance: A’Keitha Carey |
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Oct. 10, 2025 |
Film: "The Creole Pig"Film Presentation: “The Creole Pig: Haiti’s Great Loss” |
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Nov. 14, 2025 |
A Celebration of HaitiDance Performance: Nancy St. Leger Dance Ensemble |
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Dec. 5, 2026 |
Miami Art Week in Little Haiti: Immigrant Artists at WorkConversation: Curators Edouard Duval-Carrie, Carl-Philippe Juste and Marie Vickles discuss curating the exhibitions on display at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex and neighboring spaces. The talk moderated by Dr. Rebecca Friedman of the Public Humanities Lab. |
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Jan. 9, 2026 |
Visualizing the EverydayMusic Performance: The Florida Grand Opera Conversation: Professor Vanessa Charlot of the University of Mississippi in conversation with award-winning photojournalist Carl-Philippe Juste and others about the art of capturing the everyday. |
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Feb 13, 2026 |
Curating the Caribbean & Its DiasporaDance Performance: A’Keitha Carey Conversation: Cultural curators Ludlow Bailey (Managing Director of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (CADA), Tayina Deravile (Manager of Girl’s Club) and Imani Warren (Filmmaker, artist, and curator of Black Beauty as Resistance) in a dialog with Marianne Lamonaca (Humanities Edge-FIU) about the curation of diasporic voices. |
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March 27, 2026 |
The Business of ArtDance Performance: Michelle Murray Grant |
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Sept. 20, 2024 |
The Global Borderless CaribbeanDance Performance by Nancy St. Leger |
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Oct. 18, 2024 |
Climate: Miami Heat RisingDance Performance by A’Keitha Carey |
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Nov. 15, 2024 |
Thanks. Giving. Hope.Song Performance by Florida Grand Opera Students, and Lucia Nunez and Steven Parnelle from Floating Woman |
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Jan. 17, 2025 |
The Soul of FreedomDance Performance by Michelle Grant Murray |
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Feb. 21, 2025 |
I Am A Man: A Delaration on BaldwinMusic Performance by Danny Mixon Conversation: Dr. Shawn Christian and Dr. Rebecca Friedman |
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March 21, 2025 |
March ForwardPoetic Performance by Janet Arelis Quezada Film Presentation by Oana Martisca Conversation: Isabella Persad, Sasha Wells, and Beverly Muzii |
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April 18, 2025 |
Being Human Festival: Celebrating Little HaitiSong Performance by Inez Barlatier |