Sun, Sep 13
|The Wheelhouse @ Fair Game
Yamauka: My Ancestors Still Sit Here — Documentary Sneak Peek & Q&A
Catch an exclusive sneak peek and Q&A for Falani Spivey’s upcoming documentary, Yamauka: My Ancestors Still Sit Here, at 5:00 PM during Pepperfest. Follow her powerful ancestral journey in this special festival event.
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
The Wheelhouse @ Fair Game, 192 Lorax Ln, Pittsboro, NC 27312, USA
About the event
At 2 PM on the Main Stage, join Falani Spivey as she explores how peppers carry migration, memory, and ancestral foodways across generations in her talk, From Seed to Story: The Malagueta Pepper and the Roots We Carry. At 5 PM, she shifts from the pepper's journey to a deeply personal narrative of lineage and place, sharing an exclusive 6–7 minute preview of her upcoming documentary, Yamauka: My Ancestors Still Sit Here, followed by an intimate Q&A on the making of the film.
About the Documentary: "Yamauka: My ancestors still sit here"
In the liminal space between memory and myth, between the fields of Granville County and the sacred sands of Formosa, a woman follows whispers carried across centuries. When ancestral voices speak through her Great Uncle's recollections, filmmaker Falani Spivey embarks on a pilgrimage that transcends geography—a journey not merely to a remote island off Guinea-Bissau's coast, but into…