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The Garifuna Collective has arrived on campus at Brandeis University! After years of planning, the band has landed safely from Belize. Their Fall 2022 residency kicks off today! Catch them all week in classes throughout the university, and then on Saturday night 10/29 at The Garifuna Collective: Afro-Indigenous Music from Belize & Honduras

We are so excited to welcome The Garifuna Collective to Brandeis University October 24-29! Check out the link for more information and to see their full schedule for the week. Also, mark your calendar for their final concert on October 29 at 8 pm (talk @ 7) at the Slosberg Music Center / Brandeis University! Arts at Brandeis

Fall 2022 Garifuna culture was forged when a ship carrying captive Africans wrecked off the coast of St. Vincent in the 1600's. The survivors swam ashore, mixed with the island's native Arawak population, and created a unique, resilient society of free people that successfully resisted European enslavement si...