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SUMMARY:ON VIEW | Vizyon Atistik | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) is excited to announce our forthcoming exhibition in collaboration with the Archive of Alan Lomax (1915-2002)\, a pioneering ethnomusicologist for over six decades. From 1936-1937\, at the urging of heralded African American anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston\, Lomax traveled to Haiti to record the nation’s music and rituals on behalf of the US Library of Congress.\nThe Association for Cultural Equity\, which stewards Lomax’s archive\, selected 40 essential recordings from the nearly 50 hours of recorded sound from Haiti. Building a conversation between the past and present\, HCX invited visual artists of Haitian descent to respond and connect their own work through an Open Call.  \nFrom textiles to film\, the artists selected evoke both personal and resonant responses to the recordings that most spoke to them — from lullabies to Rara\, from the sacred to the Konbit. The exhibition will feature curated pairings of recordings and artwork\, connecting their modes of communion and communication over time and place. \nFeaturing the work of:\nLaïssa Alexis • Love Aritus • Marie Casimir • Megan Delianne • Stephanie “Philomen” Dorceant • Jennica Drice • Sydney Rose Maubert • Christopher Mitchell • Marie Guilloto Stuppard • Zarita Zevallos \nSoundscape by Davidson Toussaint \nTechnical support provided by ENU Builds \n   \nThis project is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.\n— \nVizyon Atistik | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End\nArtists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive\nOn view from September 19 to November 15\, 2026 \nThursday – Sunday\, Wednesday by appointment.\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \n— \nSat. Sep 19 | 6-9pm\nOpening Reception and An n Pale with Artist and Gage Averill\nRSVP Here »  \nSun. Oct 18 | 4-7pm\nLive Music with Fanmi Asoto\nRSVP Here »  \nSun. Nov 8 | 3-5pm\nCyanotype Workshop with Jennica Drice\nRSVP Here »  \nSun. Nov 15 | 4-7pm\nClosing Reception with 2Cent\nRSVP Here »  \n—\nCuratorial Statement \nRasin San Bout builds a conversation between the past and present. Over forty contemporary visual artists of Haitian descent responded to our open call and were provided access to a selection of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s recordings from Haiti. The outpouring of interest is a testament to the deep connections felt throughout Haiti and its Diaspora to our roots – Rasin San Bout.  \nWe’ve witnessed this throughout our work at Haiti Cultural Exchange and it is a representation of the fabric of our strength. Time and time again\, we look back to look forward. We dig deep to find ourselves\, to belong.  \nLomax traveled to Haiti in 1936 at the urging of the anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston\, with funding and recording equipment supplied by the Library of Congress.  At the time\, his interests were to capture the sounds and ceremonies of Haitian music that connected it to music in the American South\, to African drums and spirituals\, to the rhythms and traditions of other Caribbean nations. What he likely did not anticipate was that these recordings would someday be an opportunity for Haitians to reconnect to themselves. \nArchives have two elemental purposes: preservation and access. One is meaningless without the other. Archives are not time machines\, they are the cornerstones of relationships. The time\, place\, history\, and perspective of the viewer of any artifact holds the other side of the conversation.  In this sense\, every instance of access is an opportunity to discover meaning in the present moment. \nThe 10 artists selected responded through a variety of mediums from traditional to the latest technologies. Their engagement was also diverse – from analytical and historical points of entry to pure sensory response.  The thread that connects them all was that the recordings of people in Haiti 90 years ago felt distance-less\, timeless\, and intimately connected to their lived experience as Haitian Americans living and creating art in the present day.  \nWe thank the Association for Cultural Equity\, stewards of the Lomax archive\, for approaching us and supporting this exhibition; and we thank all those who continue to dig deep with and for us to bring forth something new for our collective futures. \nCurated by Régine M. Roumain and Micaela Walker \n— \nAbout the Artists \nLaïssa Alexis\nLaïssa Alexis (she/her) is a Haitian-born\, Chicago-based artist\, researcher\, and filmmaker working across multiple mediums. She is currently making non-fiction films that broadly explore topics on Blackness\, grief\, death\, and memory. Laïssa enjoys daydreaming about the future and hopes to use her practice to articulate these dreams. \nLove Aritus\nLove Aritus is a multimedia artist based in Denver\, CO whose work examines memory and honors ancestry through figurative portraiture influenced by her Caribbean identity. Her work investigates how everyday rituals\, domestic spaces\, and cultural traditions shape identity across generations\, transforming ordinary moments into visual archives of remembrance and resilience. Drawing from her familial connection to Aquin\, Haiti\, Love’s work explores the ways cultural traditions and family histories continue to shape contemporary identity. \nMarie Casimir| Website \nMarie Casimir is a Haitian-born interdisciplinary artist\, producer\, and curator based in Brooklyn\, NY. She was raised in Spring Valley\, NY following her family’s immigration from St. Michel de L’Attalaye\, Haiti. Her artistic practice often blends improvisational movement\, choreography\, and text\, exploring cultural memory and Black diasporic identity. Featured at venues across the country\, including Constellation (Chicago)\, Oklahoma Contemporary\, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans\, DANCE@30FPS\, and the Austin Dance Festival\, Casimir’s honors include a Ragdale Artist Fellowship\, SixTwelve Residency Award\, and a Heartland Regional Emmy nomination for her short film I Dream of Greenwood. \nAs the founder of Djaspora Productions\, she creates interdisciplinary performances\, cultural events\, and global artistic exchanges that connect artists and communities across the Black diaspora. She co-founded the Instigation Festival\, celebrating improvised music and dance in Chicago and New Orleans\, and serves as Festival Co-Founder and producer of Juneteenth on The East (OKC). Casimir previously served as Associate Director of Links Hall\, Curator of Public Programs and Performances at Oklahoma Contemporary\, and taught in the Clara Luper African & African American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma. Her work can be explored at www.marie-casimir.com. Photo credit: Colin Danville \nMegan Delianne | Website\nMegan Delianne is a computer graphics generalist and multimedia artist based between New York and Berlin\, working at the intersection of technology\, history\, and collective memory. Born in America to Haitian parents who emigrated in the 1990s\, their practice is shaped by the experience of holding two worlds simultaneously. \nStephanie “Philomen” Dorceant | Website\nPhilomen is a Brooklyn\, NY- and São Paulo\, Brazil-based Haitian-American audiovisual artist\, filmmaker\, photojournalist\, and cultural producer whose practice moves between both cities. Rooted in her family’s Haitian heritage and informed by a background in journalism and international media production\, her work explores identity\, memory\, spirituality\, migration\, and cultural preservation through documentary film\, visual storytelling\, and cultural production. Her documentary Where We Walked\, an intimate portrait of the Guarani people’s struggle to protect their ancestral lands in São Paulo\, was officially selected for the 33rd Ecocine International Film Festival. Working across documentary\, experimental film\, photography\, and visual arts\, her practice draws from visual anthropology to examine the intersections of history\, tradition\, and contemporary culture. \nBeyond filmmaking\, Philomen co-produced Black: Cite; Sight-Site Black Arts Festival\, a week-long festival presented alongside the 36th São Paulo Biennial that transformed Galeria do Reggae into a vibrant platform for contemporary Black artistic expression and public dialogue. Through her Black and Queer woman-owned production company\, PhilOmen Media\, she develops films and cultural initiatives that amplify the histories\, traditions\, and contemporary experiences of African diasporic and Indigenous communities\, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and preserving cultural memory through storytelling. \nJennica Drice | Website\nJennica Drice is a Brooklyn-based textile artist and first generation Haitian American\, raised in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. Her practice explores how identity is carried\, altered\, and reconstructed across displacement\, informed by her own hyphenated experience between Haiti and the United States. Working primarily in blue through cyanotype and indigo\, her work draws from personal and communal histories to explore memory\, migration\, and cultural inheritance. \nShe has exhibited across New York City and teaches workshops in cyanotype and natural dyeing. \nSydney Rose Maubert | Website\nSydney Rose Maubert (b. 1996) is a Haitian-Cuban artist and architect based in Miami. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Haiti\, and her maternal grandparents from Cuba respectively. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami\, with double minors in writing and art. \nMaubert is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC.\, her art and mural practice\, which has been awarded by the Graham Foundation\, Oolite Arts\, and Locust Projects. Maubert has been awarded residencies with Artist in Residence in the Everglades (June 2023)\, Bakehouse Art Complex (Summer 2025)\, Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, Snowmass Village\, CO (Spring 2026)\, DVCAI in Suriname (June 2026)\, and a residency African Heritage Center in Miami\, FL (2025- ongoing). Most notably\, her work is in the 21C Museum’s permanent collection. \nMaubert was the Strauch Fellow at Cornell College of Architecture (2022- 2024). Maubert is the Rowe Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (2024- ongoing). She has assisted in teaching courses at Yale University\, Morgan State University\, City College of New York\, and the University of Miami. Maubert sits on the board of the Center for Architecture’s Scholarship Committee (2023- ). \nChristopher Mitchell | Website\nChristopher Mitchell (b. 1978\, New York) is a Haitian-American photographer and filmmaker whose work explores memory\, place\, and cultural experience across Haiti and its diaspora. Raised in South Florida\, Mitchell lived in Haiti for 15 years\, where he developed long-term documentary projects rooted in research\, preservation\, and close collaboration with local communities. Working primarily with analog film\, he uses photography as a means of documenting resilience\, ritual\, and everyday life\, creating archives of cultural traditions that are increasingly vulnerable to erasure. His practice centers on Haitian cultural traditions\, particularly Kanaval Jacmel and Vodou ceremonies\, as well as the evolving landscape of Little Haiti in Miami\, where he currently lives and works. His long-term fieldwork in Haiti also informs two ongoing documentary films examining the ceremonial traditions of Souvenance and Gonaïves and the cultural history of Jacmel Kanaval. \nMitchell is the recipient of the Knight Foundation Art + Tech Expansion Fund\, a Wavemaker Grant supported by Locust Projects and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, and a Miami Individual Artist Grant. He is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. Recent exhibitions include Shattered Structures at FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios\, commemorating the 15th anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake; Les Sirènes at MOCA North Miami; and a solo exhibition at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Across photography\, film\, and community-based archival projects\, Mitchell’s practice is dedicated to preserving the cultural memory of Haiti and its diaspora. \nMarie Guilloto Stuppard | Website\nMarie Guilloto Stuppard is a Haitian artist raised in New York City\, and living in Seattle. She paints from a place shaped by the play between islands and city blocks\, between what was handed down and what had to be learned. Growing up\, she adopted different ways of seeing\, speaking\, and belonging. That tension lives in her work. \nMarie uses acrylic paint and materials that have already lived another life. Her process relies on an intuitive “pull” leading her to layer\, remove\, stain\, and rebuild surfaces until they begin to hold weight. Marks are covered\, edges blurred\, objects are embedded or partially buried. What remains matters more than what is added. The work moves the way memory does—uneven\, physical\, resistant to comfortable narratives. She stays with uncertainty long enough for something honest to surface. Sometimes\, figures appear faintly\, as if resisting full visibility. They are not meant to explain themselves. They exist as traces of ancestry\, of loss\, of survival carried forward. \nMarie’s practice holds space for what has been pushed aside or silenced. Her work acknowledges discomfort\, allowing its presence to spark dialogue about heritage and the sometimes not so subtle rejection of traditions that are deemed “different”. \nZarita Zevallos | Website\nZarita Zevallos is a Haitian architect\, photographer\, and conceptual artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. Raised in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, she comes from a Haitian family lineage rooted in Cap-Haïtien. She works as a Studio Lead in exterior façade restoration at a Manhattan consulting firm and spends her creative time developing conceptual artwork. \nHer practice combines hand-edited photography with materials such as thread\, glass\, bullets\, and barbed wire to create textured\, layered images\, and more recently she has experimented with sculptures. Through these elements\, she explores themes of identity\, gender\, and the influence of socio-political structures. Her work uses symbolism and materiality to spark reflection\, encouraging viewers to engage with both the beauty and the tension present in each piece. \nZevallos holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from CUNY and an Associate degree in Engineering from the Universidad Interamericana in San Germán\, Puerto Rico. Her work has been featured in Ocean’s 8 set design and exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery\, Chashama Galleries\, Haiti Cultural Exchange\, Photoville\, the ICP Museum\, and the University of Illinois Chicago\, among other venues.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/on-view-vizyon-atistik-rasin-san-bout-roots-without-end/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Late Fall Series | Bonga & Sanba Kebyesou Danlè
DESCRIPTION:Join HCX on Thursday nights for the second edition of the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Late Fall residency will be held by Bonga Jean Baptiste & Sanba Kebyesou.\nHeralded for their skill as musicians\, educators\, and culture bearers\, Bonga and Kebyesou Danlè maintain the power of Haitian culture held in the tanbou. With a wide-ranging repertoire of Haitian traditional rhythms\, they have revitalized the rasin mizik movement through their many years on stage. \nBonga and Kebyesou are founding members of the band Foula. Their name\, originating from Congo and meaning “the breath of life\,” now feels almost prophetic as Foula breathes new life into Vodou music\, lifting it out of the purely ritual space and transforming it into a modern artistic language without stripping it of its sacred essence. \nBonga and Kebyesou’s music continues to be listened to\, sampled\, remixed\, and studied\, with their band Foula’s album Voodoo Jazz from Haiti now considered a classic\, included in international selections of “essential Haitian albums.” \nThis powerful duo with unique weekly performances and guest musicians awaits you for five nights this Fall. \n—\nDates & Tickets \nGet your tickets today and don’t miss out on these incredible performances!\nPerformance will take place weekly on Thursdays this Fall:\nNovember 5\, 12 & 19 and December 3 & 10\n6-9pm (45 min sets at 6:30 & 7:45) \nGet your tickets to one\, or all these performances\, here »\nTickets include a complimentary beverage.\nSpecial pop-up offerings from Bon Pâtés.\nLimited capacity\, RSVP strongly recommended. \n—\nHCX | Mizik Ayiti! Residency \nHCX positions this invitational residency as an opportunity to innovate and workshop concepts and works-in-progress\, showcase new work\, and build networks for artists’ future presentation (e.g. booking\, touring) at other cultural institutions and stages. \nRarely do artists receive a consistent opportunity to create and share in “real time”–to develop their ideas in a beta form\, experiment\, and refine amidst presenting publicly. Over the course of 6 weeks\, resident artists receive a platform to fine tune approaches\, activate jam sessions\, and explore sonic possibilities while developing relationships with their audiences. \nOn Thursday evenings\, artist-composers host unique sets joined by a rotation of guest artists and ensembles. Performances offer the opportunity to showcase new work and workshop arrangements across the musical landscape\, from traditional genres reverberating the strength of the tanbou to the contemporary sound like fusion jazz and electronic music carrying Haitian vibration into the future. \n— \nAbout Bonga Jean-Baptiste \nGaston Jean-Baptiste\, known as Bonga\, is a musical virtuoso who has been performing and studying traditional Haitian drum\, dance and song since the age of seven. He began playing drums in his family’s peristil in his hometown of Croix-des-Mission in La Plaine\, an area of Haiti known for culture and history. \nBonga is regarded as a master of the Afro Haitian drum\, sought-after for his extensive repertoire of pan-African rhythms. A dynamic performer\, accompanist\, session player and educator\, Bonga works on stage\, in the recording studio\, and in educational settings. He is one of the few drum experts and craftsmen outside of Haiti who continues to build traditional drums using techniques that are centuries old. \nAs a core member of the seminal Haitian roots bands\, Boukman Eksperyans and Foulà\, Bonga was invited to the U.S. in the ’90s when musicians were becoming a strong voice for the Haitian people. Since then\, Bonga has continued to play solo and in ensemble and at numerous worldwide venues. He is a featured performer with Peter Yarrow\, Grace Jones\, Dan Zanes and Urban Tap\, to mention a few. His drums opened the NY premiere of the Rolling Stones “Voodoo Lounge” tour\, and he is prominently featured on recordings by Wyclef Jean and Salif Keita. \nBonga’s first CD\, Kanzo (2000)\, incorporates elements of jazz\, blues\, and funk to create a dynamic version of mizik rasin. The recording features Lou Reed\, bassist Fernando Saunders\, and trumpeter Frank London. Bonga’s second CD\, Ayiti Afrika (2006)\, received critical acclaim. Featuring cellist Rufus Cappadocia\, multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond and Guinean balafonist Famoro Dioubate\, Ayiti Afrika explores the African roots of Haitian music. \n—\nAbout Sanba Kebyesou Danlè \nJean-Raymond Giglio\, also known as Sanba Kebyesou Danlè (or simply Sanba Kebyesou)\, is one of the pioneers of the Vodou Jazz and Rasin movement out of which come bands like Boukman Eksperyans\, Boukan Ginen\, and others. His performance history is organic\, generative and has brought him to the stage to accompany musicians ranging from Tafa Mi-Soleil\, James Germaine\, Pauline Jean\, and countless others. \nThe story of Sanba Kebyesou and Foula begins in 1978\, in a Haiti caught between political tensions and a cultural effervescence searching to reclaim its roots. A group of young musicians\, led by Jean-Raymond ”Sanba Kebyesou” Giglio and Wilfrid “Tido” Lavaud\, sensed that within the ancestral rhythms of Haiti lay a force worth rediscovering. \nGiglio and Lavaud began by traveling through villages\, attending Vodou ceremonies\, recording rhythms\, observing dances\, and listening to stories. At that time\, they were closer to ethnomusicologists than performers\, fascinated by how Petwo\, Rada\, Banda drum patterns and vaksin — those bamboo or metal trumpets — could tell the history of a people without uttering a single word. In 1981\, after years of documentation\, they decided to transform this knowledge into a band. \nFoula was born as a sonic laboratory\, a space where Vodou tradition was preserved intact\, yet opened toward modern harmonies. They were soon joined by Chico Boyer\, a bassist and vocalist with a rare melodic-rhythmic sensitivity\, Gaston Bonga Jean-Baptiste\, one of the most important percussionists of his generation\, and Thurgot Theodat\, the saxophonist who would become the voice of air in a music dominated by earth and fire. \nIn 1993\, the band released the album Foula\, which quickly became a landmark album released by Blue Vision in Germany and carried their music even further. Today\, the album is considered one of the finest examples of the fusion between Vodou and jazz\, a record that influenced entire generations of artists\, from rasin musicians to explorers of world jazz. \nFoula was among the first groups to transform Vodou into a contemporary artistic language\, paving the way for bands such as Boukman Eksperyans\, RAM\, Ayibobo\, and Lakou Mizik. At a time when many rara groups were disappearing or modernizing superficially\, Foula managed to preserve the essence of tradition and pass it on to a new generation.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-residency-late-fall-series-bonga-sanba-kebyesou-danle/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series
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SUMMARY:Salon d’Ayiti: A Living Tribute to René Depestre
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Cultural Exchange and The Center for Fiction collaborate to celebrate the work & living legacy of Haitian author René Depestre.\n\n\n“The real conversation between spirit and flesh most likely takes place in some undefined realm\, a place neither here nor there\, where the soul pounds into the body—or flees the body—in a way that only some among the living can fully understand.” \n—Edwidge Danticat on René Depestre \n  \nThis evening at The Center for Fiction will feature a discussion with the English translator of his work\, Yale University professor Kaiama L. Glover\, renowned author Edwidge Danticat\, and a staged reading with special guest performance by Kebert Bastien. \n  \nJoin HCX directly after for a Salon d’Ayiti Nightcap in their space at 35 Lafayette Ave (map »).  \nHaitian author René Depestre is one of the most important voices of twentieth-century world literature. Depestre was born in Jacmel\, Haiti\, on August 29\, 1926. His vast corpus includes works of poetry\, prose fiction\, literary criticism\, and political essays. A peer of and collaborator with such influential political and literary figures as Aimé Césaire\, Jacques-Stephen Alexis\, Pablo Neruda\, Jorge Amado\, and André Breton\, Depestre has engaged with the politics and aesthetics of Negritude\, Marxism\, social realism\, and Surrealism\, among other major twentieth century phenomena\, over the course of a career that has spanned more than half a century. \nHaving lived and written through significant moments in Haitian\, New World\, and Pan African history––from the overthrow of Haitian dictator Elie Lescot in 1946\, to the first Pan African Congress in Paris 1956\, to a struggle with Haiti’s François “Papa Doc” Duvalier in 1957\, to collaboration with Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and a fraught relationship with Fidel Castro in the 1960s and 70s––René Depestre has been uniquely placed to narrate how the entirety of the Americas and Europe are implicated in Haiti’s past and present reality. \nDepestre’s distinct style is at its best in such timeless works as Hadriana dans tous mes rêves [Hadriana in All My Dreams]\, Le Mât de Cocagne [The Festival of the Greasy Pole]\, and Un arc-en-ciel pour l’Occident chrétien [A Rainbow for the Christian West]\, among other major publications\, many of which have been awarded prestigious literary prizes\, including the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle\, the Prix Renaudot\, the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire\, and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde \n\nRSVP on Eventbrite while availability lasts! »  \n—\nAbout the panel \n \nKAIAMA L. GLOVER  \nKaiama L. Glover is a translator and scholar of Black Studies\, French and Literary Studies. She is a professor at Yale University in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Glover’s research\, writing\, and teaching are situated at the intersection of French\, francophone\, Caribbean\, and Haitian literary studies. Her work explores phenomena of border-crossing\, marginality\, gender\, and canon-formation\, querying––through rigorous textual study––the shifting categories of ‘center’ and ‘margins’ as they are constituted across the postcolonial Afro-Americas. Her work has been supported by fellowships at the New York Public Library Cullman Center\, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris\, the PEN/Heim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Mellon Foundation. She has translated several works of fiction and non-fiction from French to English\, notably Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (2014)\, Marie Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano (2016)\, René Depestre’s Hadriana in All My Dreams (2017)\, and Françoise Vergès’s The Wombs of Women: Capitalism\, Racialization\, Feminism (2019). Glover is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Mellon Foundation. In addition to her published works\, Glover has contributed to the field of digital humanities through projects such as In the Same Boats\, which visualizes networks of “Caribbean\, Latin American\, African\, European\, and Afro-American intellectuals” in the 20th century. She also serves as a founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis. \n  \nEDWIDGE DANTICAT \nEdwidge Danticat is the author of several books\, including Breath\, Eyes\, Memory\, an Oprah Book Club selection\, Krik? Krak!\, a National Book Award finalist\, The Farming of Bones\, The Dew Breaker\, Brother\, I’m Dying\, Create Dangerously\, Claire of the Sea Light\, The Art of Death\, Everything Inside\, a Reese’s Book Club selection and National Book Critics Circle Awards winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States\,  Best American Essays 2011\,  Haiti Noir\, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for children and young adults: Anacaona\, Behind the Mountains\, Eight Days\, The Last Mapou\, Mama’s Nightingale\, Untwine\, My Mommy Medicine\, and a travel narrative\, After the Dance. Her memoir\, Brother\, I’m Dying\, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a  2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.  She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow\, a 2018 Ford Foundation  “Art of Change” fellow\, the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize\, the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award\, the 2011 Bocas Nonfiction Prize and 2020 Bocas Fiction Prize\,  the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Literature\, a 2020 United States Artists Fellow\, a two-time winner of The Story Prize\, and the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.  Her essay collection\, We’re Alone\, will be published in September 2024. She teaches at Columbia University.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/salon-dayiti-a-living-tribute-to-rene-depestre-2/
LOCATION:The Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Salon d'Ayiti
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SUMMARY:Ti Atis Second Saturdays: Lakay Through Your Lens: Photography\, Storytelling\, and Collage
DESCRIPTION:In this two-hour interactive workshop\, Mélissa Baptiste and Chantal Baptiste of MC Arts Collective will lead little artists through an engaging exploration of identity and community through photography\, storytelling\, and collage!\nParticipants will learn basic photography concepts and then have a portrait taken with an instant camera during the workshop. Using their instant portraits as the centerpiece\, attending children will create mixed-media collages incorporating colors\, patterns\, images\, and drawings of their choosing. To complete their creations\, participants will create a short story or caption to share what “lakay\,” the Haitian Creole word for home\, means to them. \nThe workshop will finish with a spontaneous gallery walk where participants can display their artwork and share their stories. Each young artist will leave with a personalized piece that celebrates identity\, creativity\, and connection to Haitian culture! \nThis session of Ti Atis is made possible with support from the Diaspora Community Services HRI project. \nSaturday\, November 14\, 2026\n2-4pm\nBrooklyn Children’s Museum\n145 Brooklyn Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11213 \n— \nAttendance is free with museum admission. Plus\, as a special offer for the HCX community\, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is offering FREE admission for 35 people!\n\nLimit 3 tickets per family. (Tickets will be held at the counter on the day of.) Spaces limited. \nRSVP while availability lasts! \nIf free HCX Community RSVP is no longer available on this page\, please purchase a ticket to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum here »  \n— \nArtist Bio \nMC Arts Collective\, Inc. is a nonprofit founded by Mélissa Baptiste and Chantal Baptiste. Its mission is to expand access to arts education and enrich youth and communities through creativity. The organization uses the arts as a tool for learning\, cultural expression\, storytelling and connection while creating inclusive spaces where young people can explore their identities and develop confidence. Mélissa is a Haitian photographer and visual storyteller with more than a decade of experience. Chantal is an educator with more than 40 years of teaching experience in Haiti and the United States\, including art among her taught subjects. Together\, they integrate education and creative expression into culturally meaningful experiences that encourage young people to discover the transformative power of the arts. \n— \nAbout Ti Atis \nTi Atis returns to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for a new season of interactive youth and family programming! Ti Atis (Little Artists) engages youth of Haitian descent and their peers with Haitian history and heritage via the arts\, giving young people the tools to build an inclusive and culturally informed future as they learn about diverse art forms from professional Haitian artists.  \nMark your calendars! Happening on the second Saturday of every month from November 2026 to May 2027. Stay tuned for the full lineup of teaching artists.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/ti-atis-second-saturdays-lakay-through-your-lens-photography-storytelling-and-collage/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Children’s Museum\, 145 Brooklyn Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11213
CATEGORIES:Ti Atis
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | CLOSING RECEPTION with 2Cent | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the closing night of Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive. \n2Cent arrives at the final evening of the exhibition for sonic fusion sets representing the soul of this exhibition. \nClosing Night Reception\nSunday\, November 15\, 2026\n4–7pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \n  \nAbout 2Cent | Website \nDavidson Toussaint (2Cent) is a Haitian-American DJ\, music producer\, and cultural producer whose practice explores the intersection of electronic music\, Haitian cultural memory\, migration\, and collective gathering. He is the creator of Lakou House\, an evolving artistic framework connecting contemporary electronic music with Haitian rhythm\, storytelling\, and the communal spirit of the lakou. \nHis multidisciplinary background spans music production\, artist and tour management\, event production\, and cultural programming\, including work with Manito Nation\, Kolo\, Riva\, Tafa and Michael Brun through BAYO. Through projects such as GRIOT\, 2Cent explores how sound\, place\, visual language\, and performance can carry memory while creating new expressions of Haitian identity within global electronic culture. \nToussaint designed the soundscape for the Rasin San Bout exhibition. \n—\nAbout the Exhibition \nWe are excited to announce our forthcoming exhibition in collaboration with the Archive of Alan Lomax (1915-2002)\, a pioneering ethnomusicologist for over six decades. From 1936-1937\, at the urging of heralded African American anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston\, Lomax traveled to Haiti to record the nation’s music and rituals on behalf of the US Library of Congress. \nThe Association for Cultural Equity\, which stewards Lomax’s archive\, selected 40 essential recordings from the nearly 50 hours of recorded sound from Haiti. Building a conversation between the past and present\, HCX invited visual artists of Haitian descent to respond and connect their own work through an Open Call.  \nFrom textiles to film\, the artists selected evoke both personal and resonant responses to the recordings that most spoke to them — from lullabies to Rara\, from the sacred to the Konbit. The exhibition will feature curated pairings of recordings and artwork\, connecting their modes of communion and communication over time and place. \nCurated by Régine M. Roumain and Micaela Walker \n— \nFeaturing the work of:\nLaïssa Alexis • Love Aritus • Marie Casimir • Megan Delianne • Stephanie “Philomen” Dorceant • Jennica Drice • Sydney Rose Maubert • Christopher Mitchell • Marie Guilloto Stuppard • Zarita Zevallos \nSoundscape by Davidson Toussaint \nTechnical support provided by ENU Builds \n   \n— \nLearn more about the exhibition and artists here » \nJoin the artists & curators for other activations taking place as part of this exhibition » 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/vizyon-atistik-closing-reception-rasin-san-bout-roots-without-end-2/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik
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