View of the Rio Grande River from the Boquillas Canyon Trail, near Big Bend National Park along the US/Mexico Border. REGISTER The Overlapping Territories Symposium is a program of Overlapping Territories: A Knowledge-Building Research Lab, on view April 1 - April 23. Organized by DiverseWorks Curator, Ashley DeHoyos, the symposium centers on topics such as Indigeneity, settler-colonialism, and migration. Advance registration is required. All events are at MATCH, 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. DOWNLOAD THE OT SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (PDF) Schedule Friday, April 22, 5:30 - 6:30 PM Welcome Happy Hour & Overlapping Territories Exhibition Tour with Curator Ashley DeHoyos Optional (requires a separate ticket): Friday, April 22, 7 PM Womb, a project of Body as a Crossroads A new dance work by Los-Angeles based choreographer Marina Magalhães Saturday, April 23 9 AM WELCOME & LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ASHLEY DEHOYOS, Curator, DiverseWorks 9:30 AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS NIKESHA BREEZE, interdisciplinary artist (Santa Fe, NM) Working from a Global African Diasporic, Afro-Centric and Afro-Futurist perspective, Nikesha Breeze’s interdisciplinary work reimagines the possibility of healing intergenerational traumatic inheritance through the intersection of art and ritual. 11 AM WHY DOES LAND MATTER? CAROLINA ARANIBAR-FERNANDEZ, visual artist (Phoenix, AZ); JENELLE ESPARZA, interdisciplinary artist, (San Antonio, TX); MATT MANALO, visual artist (Houston, TX). […]