BEN VINDU! BEM VINDO!
SPIA’s mission is the documentation, preservation and dissemination of cultural productions from Africa, the Caribbean and the United States, with a particular emphasis on Cape Verdean-American and Cape Verdean history, culture and traditions. This includes films, videos and multi-platform productions that explore, in innovative and qualitative ways, the multiplicity of voices, images and stories that are rarely seen or heard.
SPIA, which means “to look” in the Cape Verdean language was launched in 1998, and is based in New England, home to the oldest and largest population of Cape Verdeans outside of Cape Verde. SPIA is the culmination of my journey as a second generation born Cape Verdean-American, historian and filmmaker that began as an undergraduate history major and continued through my PhD in History/African Studies.
