What happens when LGBTQ+ Yorùbá practitioners across Nigeria, Brazil, and the U.S. in their quest for liberation? How does their indigenous religion deconstruct the colonization and embrace their truth?

Join us for a showing of AFROMYSTIC and have a chance to meet the director Seyi Adebanjo. After the viewing, we will have a chance to speak with the director, ask them questions, and listen to their journey in filmmaking.

We are thrilled to partner with The Cucalorus/Working Films Works in Progress Lab to share this amazing documentary. Tickets are free, but limited. Reserve your seats here:

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AFROMYSTIC is a groundbreaking, lyrical documentary that follows LGBTQ+ Yorùbá practitioners across Nigeria, Brazil, and the U.S. in their quest for post-colonial liberation through indigenous religion. Directed by Seyi Adebanjo, the film centers on four protagonists: Afro-Puerto Rican artist Tenjin Falase Ikeda, lesbian priestess Sojourner McCauley, transgender Candomblé priestess Iya Thiffany, and Seyi, a gender-nonconforming Nigerian. Through a blend of interviews, ritual footage, animation, and performance, AFROMYSTIC highlights Yorùbá stories such as deities that change gender or are born from same-sex couples, affirming the historical existence of LGBTQ+ people; and it reveals the vibrant spiritual lives of Yoruba’s Queer practitioners.