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SUMMARY:Ti Atis Second Saturdays: Printmaking & Storytelling with Nathalie Jean-Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Haitian artist and storyteller Nathalie Jean-Baptiste leads this engaging children’s workshop combining storytelling\, live music\, and hands-on artmaking. The program begins with a reading of Trogon’s Song of Hope accompanied by live drumming. In the story\, we meet Trogon\, the national bird of Haiti and his new friends.\nThen\, take part in a simple block printing workshop inspired by the birds\, foliage\, and natural themes. Using various materials—styrofoam plates\, pencils\, and paint—children create their own prints while learning the basics of printmaking. This workshop encourages imagination\, creativity\, and sensory engagement through story\, rhythm\, and art. \nSaturday\, April 11\, 2026\n2-4pm\nBrooklyn Children’s Museum\n145 Brooklyn Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11213 \n— \nAttendance free with museum admission.  \nLimited number of free tickets provided to the HCX community.\nRSVP below while availability lasts! \nPurchase a ticket to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum here »  \n— \nArtist Bio \nNathalie Jean-Baptiste is a Haitian painter and creative host whose work blends tradition and innovation through art and curated dining experiences. Rooted in cultural pride\, her creations explore identity\, spirituality\, and human connection\, celebrating Haitian heritage with a modern touch. She is the founder of an exclusive dining series centered on culture and storytelling\, a former Guggenheim Learning Through Art resident teaching artist in NYC public schools\, and the author of Trogon’s Song of Hope\, a children’s book about Haiti’s national bird\, the Hispaniolan Trogon. \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 2025 to May 2026. \n 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/ti-atis-second-saturdays-printmaking-storytelling-with-nathalie-jean-baptiste/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Children’s Museum\, 145 Brooklyn Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11213
CATEGORIES:Ti Atis
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SUMMARY:HCX Salon d’Ayiti Book Club | Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre Hosted by Kaiama L. Glover
DESCRIPTION:This April\, 𝗐𝖾 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 read the English translation of Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre in conversation with the novel’s translator Kaiama L. Glover\, prizewinning translator and professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University.\nProfessor Glover will lead three virtual sessions in April as well as a closing in-person meet-up and lunch on May 9 at Salon d’Ayiti hosted by Haiti Cultural Exchange and the Center for Fiction in Fort Greene\, Brooklyn. \n—\nAbout Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre \nWinner of the 1988 Prix Renaudot\, Hadriana dans tous mes rêves is widely considered René Depestre’s finest novel. Set during 1938 Carnival in the Haitian village of Jacmel\, it follows Hadriana\, a young French woman who collapses at the altar after drinking a mysterious potion\, is transformed into a zombie\, buried\, revived by a sorcerer\, and vanishes into legend. The story is narrated first by her adoring god-brother Patrick\, then — in a hilarious corrective — by Hadriana herself\, whose account exposes the hidden sensuality beneath her bourgeois community’s respectable surface. \n—\nJOIN THE CONVERSATION WITH KAIAMA L. GLOVER \nDiscussion to be held in multi-part virtual sessions:\nVirtual; meeting link shared after registration. Readers are welcome to join mid-way through the session if they get started late. \nSession 1: April 15\, 6-7pm ET\nForeword + Movement 1\, Chapters 1-2 \nSession 2: April 22\, 6-7pm ET\nMovement 1\, Chapters 3-4 \nSession 3: April 29\, 6-7pm ET\nMovement 2 \nIn-person lunch meet-up for virtual session attendees:\nLocation will be shared closer to the date. \nMay 9\, 1-3pm\nMovement 3 + Epilogue \nSpecial conversation and staged reading following the meet-up with Kaiama L. Glover\, Edwidge Danticat\, and guests: Salon d’Ayiti: A Living Tribute to René Depestre. \n$10-$30 Suggested donation includes access to all sessions. \nIf you are in NY\, you can purchase the book\, Hadriana in All My Dreams with our partners over at the Center For Fiction. Learn more about visiting their bookstore\, here » \nRSVP on Eventbrite while availability lasts! » 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/hcx-salon-dayiti-book-club-hadriana-in-all-my-dreams-by-rene-depestre-hosted-by-kaiama-l-glover/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Salon d'Ayiti
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Spring Series | Twoubadou Lakay
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Twoubadou Lakay. \nTwoubadou Lakay is a collective of master musicians rooted in the rich traditions of Haitian music. The ensemble blends the storytelling spirit and dancing guitars of Haitian Twoubadou with deep Haitian rhythms\, jazz sensibilities\, and improvisational dialogue. Twoubadou Lakay is tradition reimagined through a contemporary lens. Their sound is both intimate and expansive—grounded in lakou culture\, yet reaching across the diaspora—creating a musical space where heritage\, memory\, and innovation meet.  \nTwoubadou Lakay’s Haiti Cultural Exchange residency will feature core members Bobby Raymond\, Markus Schwartz\, Gary Josama\, Gama Josama\, Joe Montour\, Camille Hostin and Roland Cameau in revolving formations. Twoubadou Lakay invites audiences into a living\, breathing experience of Haitian musical expression—honoring the past while shaping its future. \nTwoubadou Lakay’s five-week residency at HCX will feature unique performances weekly. \n—\nDates & Tickets \nGet your tickets today and don’t miss out on these incredible performances!\nPerformances will take place on Thursdays April 16\, 23\, 30 and May 7 and 14\, 2026.\n6-9pm  \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.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-residency-spring-series-twoubadou-lakay/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series
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SUMMARY:ON VIEW | Vizyon Atistik | What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor
DESCRIPTION:Opening April 25\, What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor\, is an exhibition of works on paper by women artists across generations\, presented by Curatorial Fellow Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain. \nThrough drawing\, printmaking\, collage\, and mixed media\, the exhibition considers paper as a material that carries memory\, labor\, and cultural continuity. Paper absorbs gesture records pressure and hesitation\, time\, revision and return\, while holding traces of the hand and the persistence of ideas.  Centering practices shaped by embodied knowledge and movement across place\, the exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface\, but as one that remembers and endures. \nThis exhibition draws on traditions of storytelling and record-keeping shaped through movement and change\, where each work reflects acts of preservation. Paper bears the imprint of the hand that shaped it while holding memory with remarkable precision. The artists position paper as a deliberate and enduring space in which lived experience is carried forward\, and where marks serve as witnesses to time. Across varied practices\, the works reveal how meaning emerges through layering\, removal\, and touch\, shifting paper from a neutral ground into an active agent in the inscription and formation of memory. \nMoving between intimacy and assertion\, the exhibition brings forward practices long positioned at the margins while emphasizing their conceptual and material force. Here\, paper holds thought\, labor\, and lived experience\, sustaining what might otherwise fade. It absorbs touch even as it carries personal and cultural histories\, insisting on its role as both record and witness. \nAn opening reception\, panel discussions\, and community workshop will further explore the craftsmanship of working with paper and its preservation of memory and time.  \nOn view from April 25 through June 7 \nThursday – Sunday\, Wednesday by appointment.\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \n\nVisit the HCX Gallery to view this exhibition and join the artists & curators at activations taking place as part of this exhibition. \nSat. April 25 | 6-9pm\nOpening Reception\nRSVP Here »  \nTBA\nAn n Pale with Exhibiting Artists \nTBA\nWorkshop with Rejin Leys  \nSun. June 7 | 4-7pm\nClosing Reception\nRSVP Here »  \n  \n—\nFeatured Artists \n Sally Yolaine Binard | Website \nSally Binard is an Atlanta based multidisciplinary artist whose work examines history and identity through vivid color\, composition\, and an unmistakable sense of place.  \nHer practice spans painting\, sculpture\, and installation. Informed by her childhood in the Caribbean and her life in Key West\, her work explores stories that shape individuals and communities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including group exhibitions such as Black Creativity at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics at the Des Moines Art Center and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Her work has also been included in publications such as Ceramics Monthly.  \nHer commissioned public works include Bounty of Plantation Key\, created for the Plantation Key Courthouse and a project for the Frederick Douglass Community Center\, honoring the legacy of the Bahamian Black community in Bahama Village\, Key West.  \nBinard’s artwork and story have been featured in Forbes.com\, the Florida Slave Trade Documentation and Education Center’s online archive\, reviewed in Hyperallergic\, and appeared in multiple CBS productions. She is the recipient of the Kaabo Clay Collective Award\, a CERF+ grant\, and the 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship. \nArtist Statement \nI am a mixed-media artist of Haitian and Belgian heritage\, drawing inspiration from the vibrant traditions of Haitian art and the classical influence of Dutch painters. This cultural duality shapes my work\, merging classical techniques with rich\, colorful storytelling. \nWorking primarily with oils\, clay\, and wood\, I create portraits and installations that distill personal and social themes into visual narratives. My paintings transform human experiences into a poignant visual language\, layered with symbolism. \nRooted in literature\, history\, and research\, I look to the past to better understand and navigate the present—both my own and that of the people I portray. In this way\, my art becomes a bridge\, connecting historical narratives and personal experiences with modern identities. \n  \nAni Brutus | Website  \nAni Brutus is an interdisciplinary artist of Haitian-Filipino descent who works across print\, painting\, textiles\, and assemblage. Using found fabrics\, everyday objects\, and family archives\, she creates layered works that explore ancestry\, memory\, and spirituality. Inspired by Vodou and sacred geometry\, her practice transforms discarded materials into tactile pieces that reflect personal and communal histories. \nBrutus treats everyday items as relics carrying traces of touch and experience\, assembling them into textured\, organic forms. Through techniques like cyanotype\, woodcut\, and painting\, she layers imagery of ancestors\, cultural symbols\, and her surroundings to create works that exist at a “crossroads” of material and spiritual forces. Her work emphasizes connection across time\, honoring ancestral presence while reimagining the meaning of the ordinary. \nAni Brutus has exhibited with Haiti Cultural Exchange\, Studio 45\, Blue Print Archives at Moda Curations\, Black Girls Sew at the Textile Arts Center\, and Push-Up Gallery. \nArtist Statement: \nIn Vodou\, spirit inhabits everything—animals\, objects\, infrastructure and beyond—binding us across time and geography. I am drawn to imprints of routine\, like the indentations in a seat cushion or the wear of a well-loved hair-clip. My practice begins with the engagement of everyday materials and the observation of their forms. At the base of my work\, I create textural surfaces through the assemblage of found domestic fabric and discarded commonplace items. I work with items like keys\, toothbrushes\, old curtains and clothespins. I regard each material as a relic\, carrying traces of touch\, memory\, and connection. Together they form a portrait of my lifestyle. Each assemblage is mounted onto organically-shaped bases that are prone to weathering. I work with foamcore\, paper\, unstretched canvas and tattered fabrics. My work honors the material from which they came\, while reimagining their role through cycles of change. \n  \nJennica Drice | Website \nJennica Drice\, born in Brooklyn and raised in Port-au-Prince\, is a textile artist working with indigo and cyanotype. Her practice is rooted in cultural memory\, migration\, and diasporic inheritance\, using blue as her primary material language. She began her creative practice with Kaymanmzel\, a sustainable fashion project built around recycled textiles. Drawn to transformation\, she later turned to cyanotype\, using the process to move images and materials between states and rework them into new forms. Her work explores personal and communal archives\, asking what culture preserves\, how it travels\, and what form it assumes upon arrival. \nHer work has been exhibited in solo and group shows including Between Us at Haul Gallery where she completed a residency\, First Hand at Zepster Gallery\, Soft Structures at Makers Ensemble\, and Migration Stories at Fulton Art Fair Gallery. \nArtist Statement \nI work in blue. Indigo\, cyanotype\, denim\, cotton. Blue is both language and landscape to me. It holds mourning and freedom\, ceremony and survival. Across Haitian Vodou shrines\, Muslim tiles\, and Catholic robes\, blue is often understood as a sacred color\, one that summons and protects whatever realm holds your belief. \nI grew up one of six girls among seven cousins. Hand-me-downs weren’t just clothes; they were culture. A tutu or Victorian dress passed from body to body carried traces of each celebration\, each season of wear. That rhythm taught me care and transformation\, how to find beauty in what already existed. Kaymanmzel\, my sustainable fashion project\, continues that lineage\, reworking discarded materials into garments that hold memory and possibility. \nThat same understanding of objects as carriers of history took root early. My grandparents’ house in Port-au-Prince had vivid blue walls that soaked up the sun. I lived there until I was twelve. From the open balcony I watched funeral processions\, listened to Rara bands\, heard vendors calling out their own makeshift jingles. Blue was always there\, painted on walls\, woven through memory\, alive in gesture\, song\, and ceremony. \nI return to it again and again. \n  \nMel Isidor | Website \nMel Isidor is a Haitian-American mixed-media artist\, designer\, and urban planner based between Seattle\, WA\, and Boston\, MA. Her work draws inspiration from the built environment\, exploring how cities reveal the relationship between people and culture. Mel holds a Master’s in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Brown University—a foundation that brings a philosophical and analytical lens to her practice\, shaping both how she sees the world and how she translates that understanding through to her compositions. Her artistic practice combines photography and collage to create layered compositions that merge realism and abstraction—physically and metaphorically connecting different moments in time and space. Using imagery from her own photography\, family archives\, and public records\, she builds scenes grounded in memory and heritage that reimagine familiar geographies through a speculative lens.  \nMel also leads Isidor Studio\, her design practice dedicated to the intersections of art\, design\, and urbanism. Across both her art and studio work\, she transforms research and observation into visual narratives that deepen our understanding of place and the everyday materiality that shapes it. Her work has been exhibited across the United States through galleries and public installations in Boston\, Seattle\, and New Orleans\, and she has been invited to speak on her creative practice at institutions including Adobe\, Yale University\, and the University of Southern California.  \nArtist Statement \nRoots is a photo collage series capturing vignettes from reconnecting with my family and the landscape in Haiti. Each is a one-of-one handmade collage made with paper and foil\, assembling fragments from landscaped to lived spaces. By layering imagery from my personal photography and family archives\, these works document Haiti’s landscape into new forms that exist between memory and imagination. The fragmented compositions reflect how a place holds multiple stories at once\, showing how histories are embedded in the built environment and culture is visible in physical form. \nEach piece operates as a threshold where temporal boundaries dissolve\, drawing the viewer into a winding passage between what was\, what is\, and what might be. The collages resist a single timeline\, with fragments from different moments placed in relation to one another so that time appears all at once\, disorienting any fixed sense of where a scene belongs. A recurring motif in my work is the incorporation of mirrored elements that draw the audience into the frame\, transforming each piece from a snapshot of the past toward an augmented reality that reminds viewers they are part of the work they are observing. \n  \nNathalie Jean-Baptiste | Website \nNathalie Jean-Baptiste\, is a Haitian artist\, storyteller\, and cultural influencer whose artwork evokes emotion in its rawest form. Her paintings\, through bold colors and intimate portraits\, transform loneliness into beauty and human vulnerability into strength. Her gift for portraiture and translation of emotion also led her to use her Haitian heritage and curiosity for traditional cooking as her palette\, turning the act of hosting into an art form of its own. Everything she creates is a reflection of her home\, her family history\, her inner world and the women who live within it. \nNathalie’s curiosity fuels her creations and her desire to share knowledge through art and experience. A passionate learner and educator\, Nathalie proudly completed a residency with the Guggenheim’s Learning Through Art program where experienced teaching artists are placed into New York City public schools to collaborate with classroom teachers to develop\, facilitate\, and integrate art projects into the school curriculum. \nArtist Statement \nAs a Haitian painter and storyteller my work lives at the intersection of memory\, survival\, and transformation. I use painting as a storytelling tool that helps carry what the body and the mind remembers when words fall short. \n  \nRejin Leys | Website \nFor more than three decades I have been working on and with paper. My mixed media drawings reflect my interest in social and global issues in improvisational and playful ways. But since incorporating papermaking into my practice\, I have found myself becoming more interested in it as a material than a drawing surface. This has led to projects that exploit the sculptural possibilities of paper pulp. Using mostly recycled paper and casting from different molds\, surfaces\, and objects\, I can address the issues that concern me in ways that are new to me and challenge me both technically and aesthetically.  \nRecent cast paper projects reflect my concern about climate change by focusing on New York as a city of water; explore how our history is written right into the built environment; or personalize our pandemic era awareness of the importance of caregivers by sharing my late father’s tools. Some of these projects began with public\, interactive papermaking events that led me to spend time on deeper exploration of ideas\, processes\, and forms. They address broader concerns while focusing on place and community. \nArtist Statement \nRejin Leys is a Haitian-­American mixed media artist and papermaker based in New York. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally\, and her work is included in several public collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Yale University\, Rutgers University Caribbean Studies Department\, and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam). Leys is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Brooklyn College. \n  \nJulie Rouzier Mevs  \nJulie Rouzier Mevs is a Haitian mixed-media artist born in Port-au-Prince in 1986. Her work explores memory\, identity\, and cultural transmission through the lens of Haitian folk traditions\, oral histories\, and spiritual practices.  \nShe studied Visual Communication at l’École de Condé in Lyon\, France\, and later trained with Haitian-Italian photographer Roberto Stephenson\, whose mentorship helped shape her visual language and approach to storytelling.  \nFrom 2009 to 2015\, she worked as a freelance visual artist in Haiti\, collaborating with cultural institutions\, international organizations\, and musicians\, while documenting artistic and social life across the country. She was actively engaged in the cultural sphere through initiatives such as Haiti en Scène and Foto Konbit. She co-founded Yanvalou\, a cultural space in Port-au-Prince dedicated to artistic exchange.  \nIn 2021\, she began developing Ranmase Sonje\, a project that marked a turning point in her practice\, grounding her work in a deeper exploration of Haitian cultural memory. Through this project\, she translates folk and Vodou traditions into layered visual compositions that combine photography\, drawing\, and archival references.  \nSince then\, she has expanded this approach through collaborations with musicians\, creating visual identities and imagery for contemporary sonic worlds. This ongoing dialogue between sound and image allows her to extend her process into modern musical expression\, bridging ancestral memory with present-day forms. \nShe is currently based in the Dominican Republic \nArtist Statement \nMy practice begins with an act of gathering—of fragments\, lyrics\, gestures\, and images. Inspired by the Haitian folk song “Twa Fèy” and its refrain “jete\, bliye\, ranmase\, sonje” (throw away\, forget\, gather\, remember)\, I approach creation as a process of recovery. I am interested in what remains beneath the surface: the histories I was not taught\, and the cultural and spiritual knowledge that has been marginalized or made invisible. \nMuch of my work draws from Haitian Vodou and folk songs—oral traditions that carry collective memory across generations. Through transcription\, interpretation\, and image-making\, I translate these sonic and embodied archives into visual forms. \nMy visual language blends photography with hand-drawn elements\, creating layered compositions that move between the real and the imagined. I build these images intuitively\, allowing symbols\, figures\, and landscapes to emerge through a process of accumulation and transformation.  \nThis work is both personal and collective. It reflects an ongoing inquiry into how we locate ourselves within inherited histories\, and how memory—fragmented\, evolving\, and sometimes obscured—continues to shape who we are. \n  \nVané Russo | Website \nVané Russo was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, where she grew up amid ongoing political instability and conflict\, including an embargo that deeply impacted the nation. Surrounded by art from an early age\, she began painting and drawing in her great-grandmother’s studio\, Atelier de la Tête de l’Eau\, alongside artists such as André Naudé\, Tamara Baussan\, and Michèle Manuel. \nIn 1999\, she enrolled at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. Her early work reflects memories of Haiti and the lasting impressions of her upbringing. Through bold color and expressive gesture\, she developed a visual language that brings her personal history to the surface. Working often on large-scale canvases\, she invites viewers into an immersive and emotional experience. \nIn her later collage series\, Les Vierges\, Russo reinterprets religious imagery to construct complex portraits of contemporary women. Rather than expressions of faith\, these works explore the tension between sexuality and spirituality. Drawing from both Catholic and Vodou traditions she encountered in her youth\, she uses collage to create a new visual language—one that offers a sense of freedom she had not previously achieved through painting.  \nSince leaving Puerto Rico\, Russo has lived in Lebanon\, Paris\, Hawaii\, New York\, and Los Angeles\, among other places. Despite her global experience\, her identity remains deeply rooted in Haiti. Through her work\, she seeks to capture the island in its full complexity—its vibrant culture and landscapes\, as well as the shadows cast by its history of conflict. \nArtist Statement \nThe portrayal of women as virgins has shifted profoundly over time. In this body of work\, I explore that duality—questioning the idea that purity exists within a single\, fixed context. My contemporary interpretations often evoke discomfort\, confronting viewers with images of women who resist societal expectations and assert their individuality. I challenge traditional representations of saints\, loa\, and women\, reimagining them beyond inherited conventions.  \nHere\, virginity is reinterpreted through a modern lens\, bridging historical ideals with the complexities of contemporary life. By merging these worlds\, a more nuanced understanding of women’s roles and identities emerges—one that acknowledges both continuity and transformation. At the same time\, formal elements remain central to my practice: composition\, layered detail\, intricate patterns\, and the vibrant choreography of color are as vital as the ideas they carry.  \nI move constantly between two impulses—being a devoted colorist and an engaged social provocateur.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/on-view-vizyon-atistik-what-paper-remembers-marks-memory-and-labor/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | OPENING NIGHT | What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor on April 25\, 2026\, presented by Haiti Cultural Exchange\, Vizyon Atistik.\nOpening Reception\, April 25\n4–7pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \nOn view from April 25 through June 7 \n— \nAbout the Exhibition \nThrough drawing\, printmaking\, collage\, and mixed media\, the exhibition considers paper as a material that carries memory\, labor\, and cultural continuity. Paper absorbs gesture records pressure and hesitation\, time\, revision and return\, while holding traces of the hand and the persistence of ideas.  Centering practices shaped by embodied knowledge and movement across place\, the exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface\, but as one that remembers and endures. \nCurated by HCX fellow Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain. \n—\nFeatured Artists \nSally Yolaine Binard | Ani Brutus | Jennica Drice | Mel Isidor | Nathalie Jean-Baptiste | Rejin Leys | Julie Rouzier Mevs | Vané Russo \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-opening-night-what-paper-remembers-marks-memory-and-labor/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at Brooklyn Botanic Garden featuring Pauline Jean
DESCRIPTION:Haiti Cultural Exchange presents Mizik Ayiti! celebrating the traditional rhythms of the island of Haiti\, featuring Pauline Jean. \nSunday\, May 3\, 2026\nTwo Sessions: 12:30 & 2:30\nBrooklyn Botanic Garden\nPlant Family Collection\n990 Washington Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY 11225 \nPauline Jean is a Haitian-American vocalist whose artistry gracefully bridges jazz with global traditions and the rich rhythms of the African diaspora. Celebrated for her warm\, expressive tone and captivating stage presence\, she creates performances that are both intimate and expansive\, inviting audiences into a deeply moving musical experience. \nRooted in her Haitian heritage\, Pauline’s work reflects themes of identity\, memory\, and cultural connection\, brought to life through nuanced storytelling and dynamic musicality. She has performed on distinguished stages and at festivals across the United States and internationally\, earning recognition for performances that are as emotionally resonant as they are artistically refined. \nThrough her voice\, Pauline Jean honors tradition while embracing a contemporary sensibility\, offering music that is timeless\, soul-stirring\, and profoundly human. \n  \n\nPresenting in collaboration with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.\nFree with Garden admission.\nClick here to purchase tickets for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden » 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-at-brooklyn-botanic-garden-featuring-pauline-jean/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti!
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SUMMARY:Ti Atis Second Saturdays: Haitian Heritage Month Selebrasyon!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the season finale of HCX Ti Atis Second Saturday series at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. \nTi Atis Haitian Heritage Month Selebrasyon!—a joyful\, immersive celebration of Haitian culture! This special day is packed with family-friendly fun\, featuring vibrant dance\, hands-on arts and crafts workshops\, and captivating storytelling rooted in Haitian culture and traditions.\nBring the whole family and experience the richness of Haiti’s heritage through creativity\, movement\, and community.\nFeaturing some of our favorite Ti Atis Second Saturday artists\, be there for a day-long carousel of fun & Haitian pride!\n—\nSaturday\, May 9th\, 2026\nThree sessions from 11:30am–4pm \nBrooklyn Children’s Museum\n145 Brooklyn Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11213 \n11:30am-12:30pm in the Colorlab\nArtist Nica Drice will lead a hands-on printmaking session where families will explore Haitian culture through cyanotype\, a sun-printing (UV) process that creates vivid blue images. Using recycled\, repurposed materials and natural objects\, participants will design paper or fabric inspired by Haitian culture. \n1:00-2:00pm on the BK Voices\nImmerse yourself in the vibrant spirit of Haitian and Caribbean culture with author and educator Justine A.P. Louis of VivLiv Books! This dynamic session brings culture to life for Haitian Heritage Month with interactive Haitian game stations & crafts for children and parents. \n3:00-4:00pm on the Rooftop Terrace\nJoin dancer and choreographer Robenson Mathurin who will be teaching using music\, rhythm\, and creative play. Families will learn the basics of Haitian folkloric dance while discovering the stories and meanings behind each step.  \n—\nAs a special offer for the HCX community\, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum is offering FREE admission for 20 people.\nLimit 3 tickets per family. (Tickets will be held at the counter on the day of.)\nRSVP below! \nAttendance FREE with museum admission.\nIf free HCX Community RSVP is no longer available on this page\, please purchase a ticket to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum here [insert link]\nSpaces limited. \nPurchase a ticket to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum here »  \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 2025 to May 2026. \n 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/ti-atis-second-saturdays-haitian-heritage-month-selebrasyon-2/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Children’s Museum\, 145 Brooklyn Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11213
CATEGORIES:Ti Atis
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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\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 afternoon at The Center for Fiction will feature select readings & panel discussion featuring the English translator of his work\, Yale University professor Kaiama L. Glover\, renowned author Edwidge Danticat\, and special guests. \nJoin HCX after the program in their new space at 35 Lafayette Ave for a special post-salon gathering featuring live music. \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\nFREE. $10-$30 Suggested donation.  \nRSVP on Eventbrite while availability lasts! »  \n  \n—\nAbout the panel \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. \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/
LOCATION:The Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Salon d'Ayiti
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SUMMARY:Haitian Flag Day Selebrasyon!
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the 223rd anniversary of the Haitian Flag\, Haiti Cultural Exchange\, in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance\, presents a Haitian Flag Day Selebrasyon! \nFeaturing live music by Mizik Ayiti! Residents Mikaëlle Aimée\, Okai Musik\, Rasin Okan\, and Bobby Raymond & Markus Schwartz with special guests. 2CENT will be our DJ for an evening of outdoor fun! Enjoy artist & lifestyle vendors including Bon Pâtés\, Pikliz Please\, Se Lakay\, Watson Mere\, and more to be announced.\nWednesday\, May 20\, 2026\n 5 – 9pm (performance at 6:30pm)\nProspect Park Boathouse\n101 East Dr\, Brooklyn\, NY 11225 \nRSVP on Eventbrite while availability lasts! »  \n—\nHaiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop\, present and promote the cultural expressions of the Haitian people. Founded in 2009 by seven Haitian women to create a permanent presence for Haitian Arts & Culture in NYC. HCX’s programs in the arts\, education and public affairs raise awareness of social issues and foster cultural understanding within and beyond the Haitian community.  For more information\, follow us @haiticulturalx. \n—\nProspect Park Alliance is the non-profit organization that sustains\, restores and advances Prospect Park\, Brooklyn’s Backyard\, in partnership with the City of New York. The Alliance provides critical staff and resources that keep the Park green and vibrant for the diverse communities that call Brooklyn home. Learn more at www.prospectpark.org.   \n \n 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/haitian-flag-day-selebrasyon-3/
LOCATION:Prospect Park Boat House\, 101 East Dr.\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11225
CATEGORIES:Haitian Flag Day Selebrasyon!
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | CLOSING RECEPTION | What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor
DESCRIPTION:Join HCX for the closing reception of What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor on June 7\, 2026\, presented by Haiti Cultural Exchange\, Vizyon Atistik.\nSunday\, June 7\n4–7pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \nOn view from April 25 through June 7 \n—\nAbout the Exhibition \nThrough drawing\, printmaking\, collage\, and mixed media\, the exhibition considers paper as a material that carries memory\, labor\, and cultural continuity. Paper absorbs gesture records pressure and hesitation\, time\, revision and return\, while holding traces of the hand and the persistence of ideas.  Centering practices shaped by embodied knowledge and movement across place\, the exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface\, but as one that remembers and endures. \nCurated by HCX fellow Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain. \n—\nFeatured Artists \nSally Yolaine Binard | Ani Brutus | Jennica Drice | Mel Isidor | Nathalie Jean-Baptiste | Rejin Leys | Julie Rouzier Mevs | Vané Russo \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-what-paper-remembers-marks-memory-and-labor/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik
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