The Alma Experience - An Exclusive Gathering of the Alma Film Festival’s Global Council of Culture with Special Festival Announcements & Visual Showcases

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The Alma Experience - An Exclusive Gathering of the Alma Film Festival’s Global Council of Culture with Special Festival Announcements & Visual Showcases

The Alma Film Festival invites Atlanta’s creative community, cultural leaders, and partners to a special Pre-Launch Gathering at the historic APEX Museum. This intimate, high-end experience will bring together our broad coalition of supporters as we prepare to launch one of the most dynamic cultural festivals of 2026.

This afternoon will highlight:

  • Meet & Greet – Building connections across Atlanta’s creative, cultural, and business communities.

  • Festival Updates – Exclusive insights into programming, partners, and global initiatives.

  • Special Announcements – Unveiling new collaborations and opportunities for community involvement.

  • Visual Presentations – A first look at the Alma Film Festival experience.


Featured Performance

Acclaimed artist Ciara A. Shaw will perform a stirring excerpt from her award-winning one-woman show, Ain’t But A Few of Us Left. A trained artist with an MFA in Acting, Shaw’s work lives at the intersection of story, performance, and healing. The piece is a multimedia exploration of grief, sisterhood, and time—seen through the dreams and memories of a young Black woman navigating loss while holding on to hope.

Described as “personal, poetic, and grounded in emotional truth,” the production has earned Best Actress and Best Drama honors and captivated audiences at national festivals such as IndyFringe, where it sold out performances. Each show is designed as a shared emotional experience that lingers long after the lights go down.

Special Film Presentation

The evening will also feature a cinematic excerpt from Liberation—a visionary film by Iyabo Kwayana, filmmaker and Dartmouth College professor. Structured as an improvisational dialogue between memory, music, and myth, Liberation unfolds through the reflections of her father, Eusi Kwayana, a Guyanese elder statesman and philosopher.

The film journeys from oral testimony to underwater dreamscapes, blending the spiritual, ancestral, and elemental to reimagine freedom not as destination but transformation—a baptism through earth, fire, and water. Liberation resists linear storytelling and instead invites audiences to experience cinema as ritual and rebirth, a meditation on the layered nature of freedom

Venue: APEX Museum, 135 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA

Date & Time: Sunday, November 9, 2025 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Tickets Available Here

This marks the beginning of an inspiring journey toward March 2026, when the Alma Film Festival debuts in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic. Join us as we honor Atlanta’s pivotal role in shaping a global cultural conversation rooted in art, intellect, and shared humanity.

Media inquiries: BlueBistroCreative@gmail.com 
Follow us: @AlmaFilmFestival | #AlmaFilmFestival | #GlobalCouncilOfCulture

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