Description: In recognition of Caribbean American Heritage Month, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History will host the 2019 Caribbean Film Festival. Learn about Caribbean culture through the films of the Caribbean region. Enjoy thought provoking discussions about the region and the films screened, and meet and network with others who share similar interests. Caribbean Film Festival Poetry is an Island, Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) 79 minutes | Documentary 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 14. The Auburn Avenue Research Library’s (AARL), Second Fridays at Auburn is a quarterly informal social networking mixer for local creatives, cultural enthusiasts, and devoted Afrophiles to communally experience Africana art and culture in a relaxed interactive atmosphere. In observance of Caribbean American Heritage Month (2019, this Second Friday at Auburn event will Kicks Off the 2019 Fulton County Caribbean Film Festival with a taste of the Caribbean reception followed by a screening of Poetry is an Island, Derek Walcott. This documentary presents an intimate portrait of poet / playwright and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, set in his beloved native island St. Lucia. Saturday, June 15 (Time TBD) Forward Home: The Power of the Caribbean Diaspora (Caribbean Diaspora) 50 minutes | Documentary A documentary film, shot in 9 countries, revealing the economic power of the people of the Caribbean Diaspora living in global cities; the significance of their contribution to their homeland, as travelers and entrepreneurs. Locations: London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Suriname, New York, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago. Saturday, June 15 (Time TBD) Diggers: The Men Who Built the Panama Canal (Panama) 90 min | Documentary This documentary film examines the lives of black men who came from the West Indies (primarily Barbados and Jamaica) to work on the construction of the Panama Canal from 1881 to 1914. Saturday, June 15 (Time TBD) Havana Time Machine Sunday, June 16 (Time TBD) The Merikins: America, Trinidad and Canada's Forgotten History This powerful documentary unveils the hidden history of the Merikins, enslaved Africans who secured their freedom by fighting for the British Army in the Corps of Colonial Marines during the War of 1812. At the war’s conclusion these soldiers would emigrate from the United States to Trinidad establishing prosperous Black expatriate communities where some of their direct descendants continue to live. This event will include a post screening community dialogue with renowned artist Tina Dunkley whose multimedia solo exhibition, Sanctuary for the Internal Enemy: An Ancestral Odyssey presented at the Auburn Avenue Research Library responds to uncanny discovery of Trinidadian ancestry in the War of 1812. Sunday, June 16. (Time TBD) Green Days by the River (Trinidad) 102 minutes | Drama Trinidadian film, directed by Michael Mooleedhar based on the novel of the same name by the Trinidadian author Michael Anthony. Set in 1952 Trinidad, the film follows Shell an ambitious African village boy struggling with poverty and his sick father finds solace in a wealthy Indian farmer, Mr. Gidharee, and his captivating daughter, until he falls for a city girl, and discovers the scheming entrapment of his solace that would shatter his love life and manhood.

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