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SUMMARY:Lakou NOU Culminating Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2022 Lakou NOU culminating event on Saturday December 3rd at BKLYN Commons!\nThe 2022 Lakou NOU culminating event demonstrates the sheer resistance and power within Brooklyn’s Haitian diasporic community. Four unique projects by the 2022 Lakou NOU artists-in-residence examine crucial issues on the minds of many Haitians: the Haitian queer experience\, immigration policy\, language and identity\, and what it means to be Black and Haitian in America. This free event presents the artists’ work in conversation with each other\, demonstrating how these topics are intersectional. \nUnlike traditional artmaking\, where an artistic creation amplifies a sole artists’ perspective\, Lakou NOU residents generated this work collaboratively with community members\, weaving participants’ collective creativity into their respective art forms. The Lakou NOU culminating showcase will include visual art installations and photography by Steven Baboun\, audio soundscapes by Lalin St. Juste\, a live musical performance by Sherlee Skai\, and a live dance performance by Robenson Mathurin. \nThe artists projects are as follows:\nSteven Baboun (Canarsie): Fanmi M\, Men Yo! (“My Family\, There They Are!” in Haitian Kreyòl) is a series of photographs\, sculptures and sound pieces birthed and inspired by the Haitian Queer community and reality. Each textile sculpture features a sound piece created collaboratively with participants in the Haitian Queer Educational and Artmaking workshop facilitated during Steven’s Lakou NOU residency. \nRobenson Mathurin (Crown Heights): Koulè M Idantite M (My Skin\, My Identity in English)\, is a dance workshop series that reflects on the complexity of Black identity in different societies and\, specifically\, as part of the immigrant experience. Community members engage workshops in which they discuss: what does it mean to live\, survive\, and thrive in your own Black skin? \nLalin St. Juste (East Flatbush): Mother Tongue\, a multidimensional performance utilizing the soundscape of conversations around Kreyòl Ayisyen to interpret the celebratory and complex relationship to this language for Haitians throughout the diaspora. \nSherlee Skai (Flatbush): Conversation Through Music combines community conversation\, storytelling\, and acoustic ballads (shaped by multicultural influences from Haitian folklore to American jazz and soul); the aim is to raise awareness of immigration rights and advocate for justice centered policies for Haitian migrants. \n  \nREGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE »
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/lakou-nou-culminating-event/
LOCATION:BKLYN Commons\, 495 Flatbush Ave\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11225
CATEGORIES:Lakou NOU 2022
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SUMMARY:Koulè M Idantite M — A Lakou NOU Artist Event
DESCRIPTION:Koulè M Idantite M (My Skin\, My Identity) is a reflection on the complexity of black identity as part of the Caribbean immigrant experience. \nPerformance and Dialogue with Robenson Mathurin\, a Lakou Nou 2022 Artist. \n“Koulè M Idantite M” (My Skin\, My Identity in English)\, is a reflection on the complexity of black identity in different societies and\, specifically\, as part of the immigrant experience. “Koulè M Idantite M” invites black immigrant Crown Heights community members to engage in dance and choreography workshops that helped express their inner thoughts and helped to prime discussion of the question: what does it mean to live\, survive\, and thrive in your own black skin? The result of these workshops helped to create new choreography and performance. \nThe performance of this work will feature invited dance artists\, project participants sharing their testimonies and stories\, live Haitian drumming\, recorded music\, and possibly video projection. The public showing will also be followed by a public Q&A. \nAll visitors will be required to show their proof of full COVID-19 vaccination in order to access the Sign in App and enter Gibney Center. Gibney Center requires that you provide proof of vaccination at least 72 hours  in advance using this form. \n  \nRSVP here » \nLearn more about Robenson Mathurin’s Lakou NOU residency here »
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/koule-m-idantite-m-a-lakou-nou-artist-event/
LOCATION:Gibney 280 Broadway\, 53a Chambers Street\, New York\, New York\, 10007
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SUMMARY:Allies For Haitian Migrants; A Lakou NOU Artist Event
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URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/allies-for-haitian-migrants-a-lakou-nou-artist-event/
LOCATION:MoCADA\, 80 Hanson Place\, Brooklyn\, New York
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SUMMARY:Murder in Pacot
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this:Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\nMURDER IN PACOT* | Film | 130 Minutes | 8:00pm  \n*Pacot is the name of an upscale neighborhood in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. \nDirector: Raoul Peck \nFilm in French & Haitian Creole w/ English Sub-Titles.  \nAfter the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince\, an intellectual bourgeois couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubbles of their luxurious home. Needing money to survive\, the couple decides to rent the remaining habitable part of the villa to “Alex”\, a high-level foreign relief worker. He brings with him in the house\, Andrémise\, an ambitious 17 years old Haitian girl of modest background. Now the couple\, strained by the loss of their social position\, their ideals\, their dreams and desires must face this toxic intrusion.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/murder-in-pacot/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Stateless
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\nStateless | Documentary | 97 Minutes | 6:00pm  \nDirector: Michèle Stephenson \nIn 1937\, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army\, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013\, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents\, retroactive to 1929\, rendering more than 200\,000 people stateless.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/stateless/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Jacques Stephen Alexis & How (Not) To Build A School
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\n***Doors open at 1:00pm | Screenings begin at 2:00pm \nJacques Stephen Alexis\, Dead without a Burial Site | Documentary | 95 Minutes | 2:00pm Director: Arnold Antonin \nFilm in French and Haitian Creole w/ English and Spanish subtitles \nJacques Stephen Alexis is one of the most prominent writers of Haiti and the Caribbean. Coming back to Haiti in 1961 after a long journey abroad\, the author of “General Sun\, My Brother” and “In the Blink of an Eyelid” is kidnapped on François Duvalier’s orders and has been missing since then as well as four of his companions. This film shows the efforts to find records and decipher the mystery of his dis-appearance. \n  \nHow (not) to Build a School in Haiti | Documentary | 91 Minutes | 4:00pm  \nDirector: Jack C. Newell \nDevelopment\, history\, and colonialism collide when a seemingly simple aid project spirals out of control in Haiti. Headstrong American Tim Myers clashes with Haitian leader Anselme Saimplice\, forcing a reckoning on privilege and power. \n  \nPost-Film Screening Q&A with Director
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/jacques-stephen-alexis-how-not-to-build-a-school/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Zombi Child
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\nZombi Child | Film | 103 Minutes | 8:00pmDirector: Bertrand Bonello  \n***Film is in French w/ English Subtitles  \nHaiti\, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris\, 55 years later\, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school\, a Haitian girl con-fesses an old family secret to a group of new friends – never imagining that this strange tale will conVince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/zombi-child/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Spotlight on Haiti with Pierre-Michel Jean
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this: Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\n*** Films are in Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles \nPortrait of a Filmmaker with His Cat | Documentary | 5 MinutesDirector: Pierre-Michel Jean \nMy phone is like the black box of my life. I take it out of my pocket to memorize the slightest swirls of reality that challenge me. Retroactively\, whole sections of my life can be told in this way. A few weeks before the global pandemic\, I returned from a trip to Europe. This change of places\, contexts of atmospheres and the sudden fear of the outside I wanted to show all that with my phone video archives. How the love of what I do\, the love to inform others allows us to surpass ourselves. \n  \nSay Forgetting as a Lie /L’oublie pour Mensonge | Documentary | 33 minutesDirector : Pierre-Michel Jean \nOctober 1937\, the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo massacred more than 20\,000 Haitian immigrants in the North of the Dominican Republic. A genocide passed over in silence that the Domin-ican government still does not recognize today. Before the memories fade\, child witnesses and survi-vors of this appalling massacre more than eight decades later tell fragments of their story. As a re-minder to ward off the present and guard against the future. \n  \nTowo La Cou| Documentary | 65 minutes \nDirector: Pierre-Michel Jean \nEvery year at Easter\, the heirs of the musical Rara Group ‘‘Towo La Cou’’ barely manage to pay the musicians and thus honor the tradition of their father: bringing the group to downtown Léogâne and defends the colors of Acul\, their small village. This documentary film follows ‘‘Towo La Cou’’\, a story of a whole community of destinies suspended by the toll of the high cost of living and a visceral need for music. \n  \nPost-Film Screening Q&A with Director & Filmmaker Guetty Félin
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/spotlight-on-haiti-with-pierre-michel-jean/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Kafe Negro & Madan Sara
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this : Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\n  \n***Doors open at 1h pm | Screenings begin at 2:00pm \nKafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution | Documentary | 52 Minutes | 2:00pm \nDocumentary in French and Spanish w/English subtitles \nDirector: Mario Delatour \nKafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution is a film that explores the social\, economic & historical ramification of the Haitian Revolution on Cuba. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who\, over time\, profoundly transformed the culture and demography of Cuba and developed coffee growing on the island. \n  \nMadan Sara | Documentary| 50 Minutes | 3:00pm  \nDirector: Etant Dupain \nDocumentary in Haitian Creole w/English subtitles \nThe documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. It amplifies the calls of the Madan Sara as they speak directly to society to share their dreams for a more just Haiti. \nPost-Film Screening Q&A with Director
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/kafe-negro-madan-sara/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Spotlight on Brooklyn & Haiti Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\nHaiti Film Fest is presenting the diversity\, depth and vibrant spirit of the Haitian people through contemporary cinema. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange produces the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in collaboration with Les Lumières du Sud. \n HAITI FILM FEST SCREENINGS \n Friday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26  \nThe Flea Theater (The Sam) | 20 Thomas St\, New York\, NY 10007 \nScreenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers\, industry professionals and scholars. \n$10 suggested donation for film screenings. RSVP REQUIRED. \nSee full schedule by clicking on this : Haiti Film Fest 2022 Schedule  \n\n\n\n\n**Doors Open at 5:00pm| Screenings begin promptly at 6:00pm \nHaiti Film Fest: SPOTLIGHT ON BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS \nDyaspora. Haitians Abroad: Exploring Language and Identity| Documentary| 39 Minutes | 6:00pm  \nDirectors: Emmanuella Aristil\, Nancy Fenelon \nThis short documentary Dyaspora. Haitians Abroad: Exploring Language and Identity\, is looking into the subject of identity\, language and duality within the Haitian American community. Through personal perspectives within the NYC diaspora\, the directors seek to broaden the discussion and gain insight to this very question.  \nThe Rain and The River | Short Film| 31 Minutes | 6:45pm  \nDirector: Jean Lodescar Jr.  \nIn the short film\, The Rain And The River\, an overly passive man (Alexander) who yearns to live life and find love must first battle his self-doubt and overbearing mother (Marie). Alexander grapples with barriers placed on him in his life and contemplates adversity. Underneath it all is strength and courage rooted in his ancestors…a strength he didn’t know he had. \nKay La Mande Wouze | Documentary | 8 Minutes | 7:15pm \nDirector: Jessica St. Vil Ulysse \nWhen we as the Diaspora look at our motherland\, we look at this ongoing narrative of civil unrest\, in-justice\, and in-equality and then we take a look at our lives here in the U.S. and realize we are battling some of those same issues; What are to do? The Film explore through movement where we as POC can draw from the strengthen our efforts to the idea of confronting these discriminations? How do we begin to spark change within ourselves and within our communities? Kay la Mande Wouze? There is a need of change. There is a need for a revolution. What role will YOU play in it?  \nElena| Documentary | 30 Minutes | 7:30pm  \nDirector : Michèle Stephenson \nSpanish and Haitian Creole with w/ English Subtitles  \nIn 1937\, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army\, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013\, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents\, retroactive to 1929\, rendering more than 200\,000 people stateless.  \nPost-Film Screening Q & A with Directors  \n  \nHaiti Film Fest : SPOTLIGHT ON HAITI with Rachelle Salnave & Marc Henry Valmond  \nFilms are in Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles  \nMen nan Men| Documentary | 15 Minutes | 8:00 pm  \nDirector: Wilson Edmond  \nInspired by the hit TV show “Orange is the New Black\,” a young woman from Haiti galvanizes her friends to teach female prisoners Arts and crafts activities with the intentions of bringing them hope. Through the solidarity of her community\, Men Nan Men is a documentary that follows Estella’s experiences working with women in the prison system and gives voice to this forgotten population. \nThe Vocation| Documentary | 8 Minutes| 8:20 pm  \nDirector : Estaïlove St-Val  \nBertho\, a 34-year-old young man runs an arts and culture organization in Pétion-Ville\, Haiti in the hopes of creating change in his neighborhood and keeping the youth out of the streets. \nEskwad | Documentary| 12 Minutes|8:40 pm  \nDirector : Keziah Jean  \nWeeks after the Earthquake\, Eskwad captures a small grassroots organization in Haiti at the center of authentic community development. Eskwad captures Haitians using unity as their key ingredient in cultivating sustainability in the agro-industry. \nMadame Pipi | USA\, LABADIE-HAITI | Documentary | 9:00 pm  \nDirector : Rachelle Salnave  \nMadame Pipi follows the personal journeys of female Haitian bathroom attendants in Miami’s hottest nightclubs and their support to Haiti through their tips. \nPost-Film Screening Q&A with Directors
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/spotlight-on-brooklyn-haiti-filmmakers/
LOCATION:The Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY\, 10007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Haiti Film Fest Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Ticket sales have ended\n\nSales have ended for this event and we are currently sold out. No tickets will be sold at the door. Please be sure to join us for the remainder of the Haiti Film Fest (June 24 – 26) at the Flea Theater\, 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY 10007. For more information visit: www.haiticulturalx.org \n\n\n\nHaiti Cultural Exchange presents the 5th edition of Haiti Film Fest OPENING NIGHT screening with FREDA\, by Director Gessica Généus \n\n\nABOUT THIS EVENT\n \n\n\n\nIn 2022\, Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) will produce the 5th Biennial Haiti Film Fest in partnership with Les Lumières du Sud. \nJoin us for the Brooklyn Premiere Screening of FREDA\, by Director Gessica Généus\, in partnership with SaNosi Productions\, Ayizan Productions & Merveilles Production. \nThursday\, June 23rd\, 2022 at Nitehawk Cinemas\, Prospect Park West featuring a Q & A with Gessica Généus. \n“FREDA lives with her family in a poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. They make ends meet thanks to their small street shop. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise in violence in Haiti\, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda\, however\, wants to believe in the future of her country.” \nHaiti Film Fest was established by Haiti Cultural Exchange in 2011 and has featured a diverse array of films\, from award winning full-length features to compelling shorts\, by emerging and established filmmakers from throughout the US\, Haiti\, Canada\, Cuba\, and Europe. Over the past four installments\, the festival has drawn an English\, French\, and Creole speaking audience of over 3\,000\, connecting our diverse community to stories of exile\, trauma\, identity\, and belonging. \nOpening Night: Thurs\, June 23rd 7-9pm \nAfter Party 9pm-11pm \nNitehawk Cinemas\, 188 Prospect Park West\, Brooklyn\, NY 11215 \n**Film is in Haitian Creole & French\, Sub-Tilted in English. \n**To help support Haiti Film Fest\, please plan to purchase a minimum of $25 worth of food/beverage during the film screening** \n**Cash bar for after party* \n  \nFriday\, June 24 – Sunday\, June 26 \nHaiti Film Fest Screenings at The Flea Theater: 20 Thomas Street\, New York\, NY 10007
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/haiti-film-fest-opening-night/
LOCATION:Nitehawk Cinema – Prospect Park\, 188 Prospect Park West\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Haiti Film Fest 2022
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at Zanmi Restaurant featuring Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band
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URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-at-zanmi-restaurant-featuring-buyu-ambroise-the-blues-in-red-band/
LOCATION:Zamni Restaurant\, 1206 Nostrand Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! 2022
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at Lakou CAFÉ
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URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-at-lakou-cafe/
LOCATION:Lakou Café\, 195 Utica Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at Grandchamps featuring Okai Musik
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URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-at-grandchamps-featuring-okai-musik/
LOCATION:Grandchamps\, 197 Patchen Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! 2022
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! featuring Sherlee Skai singing acoustic ballads
DESCRIPTION:Presenting World Music singer-songwriter Sherlee Skai who brings a unique sound shaped by multicultural influences from Haitian folklore to American jazz and soul. She sings from the heart combining art\, story\,and song in perfect unison. \nBased in New York where she graced the stages of Harlem Week\, New-York Marathon\, and more\, Sherlee Skai’s music celebrates her origin and culture\, shares her vision as an immigrant\, a woman standing in front of life\, hence the title of her album “TOUTOUNI” (Bare Naked). \nSherlee is a politically active and engaged artist and makes it her duty to promote Haitian culture and bringawarenesstothesocial and politicalissues inHaiti.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-featuring-sherlee-skai-singing-acoustic-ballads/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Haitian Drumming & Dance by Imamou Lele
DESCRIPTION:Joins us for a family centered workshop for all ages! \nAlexandra Jean-Joseph is an educator\, dancer and choreographer. As the Artistic Director of drum and dance ensemble Imamou Lele\, she currently produces cultural material and folkloric works of Haiti through traditional dance. As a manbo of Haitian Vodou\, she strives to preserve the connection between Haitian Folkloric Dance and Vodou rites and to promote dance as an experience where spirit and art meet. She currently practices with her spiritual family at Le Temple D’Olohoum in Queens\, New York. Le Temple D’Olohoumis dedicated to the observance of Vodou in its most religious aspect. It focuses on creating a physical\, mental\, moral\, and spiritual environment for the practice of Vodou. \nSky Menesky is an educator\, percussionist\, and cultural activist. He currently works as a middle school teacher in Brooklyn\, New York while hosting “The Sky Menesky Podcast”. The podcast is a sans-frontiere radio program committed to promoting\, defending\, and educating Haitians and non-Haitians on the importance of Haiti\, and advocating for cultural\, economic\, and political change in our community here within the diaspora.As the Music Director of drum and dance ensemble Imamou Lele\, Sky aims to protect and promote Haiti’s folkloric traditions and continue to preserve Haiti’s cultural heritage through traditional songs and drum rhythms.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/haitian-drumming-dance-by-imamou-lele/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! 2022
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at DRINK LOUNGE featuring DJ Serge Negri
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URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-at-drink-lounge-featuring-dj-serge-negri/
LOCATION:Drink Lounge\, 768 Franklin Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! 2022
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! featuring Obed Jean-Loui
DESCRIPTION:Free with Garden Admission \nObed Jean-Louisis a singer/songwriter born and raised in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. His exposure to an array of musical styles permeating the Island such as Rasin (traditional Haitian rhythms) Gospel\, Konpa\, Reggae\, Jazz\, and Pop\, have inspired his creativity and fueled his desire to express and share his music.In the late 90s\, Obedleft Haiti for New York.Shortly after his arrival he found himself in a school of artists and teachers such as Jowee Omicil\, Nedelka Prescod\, Lisa Harris\, Beethova Obas\, NY All Stars & the legendary Haitian band Tabou Combo whom he had the privilege of touring & recording with on their “Taboulogy”album. He has also been featured on “Atis Pou Ayiti”\, celebrating Haiti’s independence Bicentennial\, with artists such as Ralph Tamar and Eddy François. Over the years\, Obed is humbled to have graced many of New York’s main stage venues such as Le Poisson Rouge\, Joe’s Pub\, SOB’s\, BAM Café\, The Brooklyn Museum\, and Bay Street Theater\, along with numerous other venues around the Metropolitan area including the Blue Note Jazz Bar\,opening for soul songstress Mavis Swann Pool & Soul Understated. \nObed is currently working on the release of his first album\, bridging his various musical influences\, sharing his story as a Haitian immigrant in “Ladeo Sankofa”\, as he tilts\, turns\, reaches back\, and reclaims his musical heritage in a fusion of Creole & English songs\, expressing a love of Haitian Culture and the joy of FREEDOM for everyone.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-featuring-obed-jean-loui/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! 2022
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