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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Late Spring Series | Rasin Okan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Rasin Okan! \nThis residency honors the legacy of mizik rasin in Haiti and abroad and its role in collective storytelling. Rasin Okan will share popular folk songs from legends such as Lenord Fortune (a.k.a. Azor) and Jacques Fortere (a.k.a. Wawa)\, as well as original songs that echo the courage of Haiti’s freedom fighters while calling us to remember\, reconnect\, and rise. This residency is a sacred pilgrimage home—a journey for healing\, reflection\, and protection. We invite you to take this symbolic trip with us through rhythm\, drum\, dance\, and song. Let the music move your spirit. Let the memory ignite your soul. \n—\nAbout Rasin Okan: Born of Haiti’s mizik rasin movement\, Rasin Okan is a Brooklyn-based Haitian roots ensemble. In the spirit of rasin sèch (directly translated to dry roots)\, Rasin Okan emphasizes the sounds and songs of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial music without much electric accompaniment. Led and co-founded by Jean E. Montina\, Sanba Mayombe\, the group writes original songs and evocative folk music to insight the revolutionary spirit of Haiti’s freedom fighters\, set to a pulsating rhythm. \nMembers: Jean E Montina (Sanba Mayombe)\, Trudy Pierre (Sanba Verite)\, Wilgainson Toussaint (Sanba Nènèl)\, Gregory Fanor (Atis Alèz)\, Véronëque Ignace (Awoyo) \n—\nDates & Tickets \nGet your tickets today and don’t miss out on these incredible performances!\nPerformance will take place weekly on Thursdays this Spring:\nMay 28 and June 4\, 11\, 18 and 25\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.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-residency-late-spring-series-rasin-okan/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | Collage Workshop with Mel Isidor
DESCRIPTION:In this participatory workshop\, join exhibiting artist Mel Isidor to discover the art of collage in this engaging\, beginner-friendly workshop designed to spark imagination and experimentation. Using a mix of found materials\, papers\, images\, and textures\, you’ll learn how to layer and compose elements into a visually compelling piece that reflects your personal memory.\nParticipants will be guided through a short introduction to the history of collaging and an overview of key techniques and approaches. With guided support throughout\, you’ll explore composition\, color\, and storytelling as you cut\, arrange\, and assemble your own original collage. Emphasizing creativity\, play\, and self-expression\, this session invites you to loosen up\, try new ideas\, and enjoy the process of making something uniquely yours. \nRegister for this workshop here »\nRegistration includes a complementary beverage & light refreshments.\nLimited capacity\, RSVP required. \n\nSunday\, June 7\n2–4pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \nThis event is part of the Vizyon Atistik public programming for What Paper Remembers: Marks\, Memory and Labor on view until June 7\, 2026. \n  \n— \nAbout the Instructor\n \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. Learn more about Isidor’s work at www. melisidor.com \n  \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  \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-collage-workshop-mel-isidor/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik,Workshop
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T190000
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SUMMARY:Lakay Foutbòl | World Cup 2026 | Haiti vs. Scotland
DESCRIPTION:HCX is HQ to watch Haiti’s national team Les Grenadiers bring us to World Cup victory!\n\nHosted in collaboration with Maison Demar\, this series of watch parties will feature summer evening kick-backs with cold drinks\, great vibes\, exclusive product releases by Haitian fashion designers and lifestyle brands.  \nGrenadye Alaso!  \n\nSaturday\, June 13: Haiti vs. Scotland\nDoors open at 7pm | Kick off at 9pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217 \n\nRSVP on Eventbrite & grab exclusive add-ons while availability lasts! »  \n  \nJoin Us for More Watch Parties \n—\nFriday\, June 19: Haiti vs. Brazil\nHosted in collaboration with Rooftop Films & Council Member Chi Ossé\nEvent start TBA | Kick off at 9pm | NO RSVP NEEDED\nLocation: Von King Park\, 670 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11216 \nWednesday\, June 24: Haiti vs. Morocco\nDoors open at 4pm | Kick off at 6pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/lakay-foutbol-world-cup-2026-june-13-haiti-vs-scotland/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Collaborations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260619T190000
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SUMMARY:Lakay Foutbòl | World Cup 2026 | Haiti vs. Brazil
DESCRIPTION:HCX is HQ to watch Haiti’s national team Les Grenadiers bring us to World Cup victory!\n\nHosted in collaboration with Maison Demar\, this series of watch parties will feature summer evening kick-backs with cold drinks\, great vibes\, exclusive product releases by Haitian fashion designers and lifestyle brands.  \nGrenadye Alaso!  \n\nFriday\, June 19: Haiti vs. Brazil\nHosted in collaboration with Rooftop Films & Council Member Chi Ossé\nEvent start 12pm | Kick off at 8:30pm | NO RSVP NEEDED\nLocation: Von King Park\, 670 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11216 \n\n  \nJoin Us for More Watch Parties \n—\nSaturday\, June 13: Haiti vs. Scotland\nDoors open at 7pm | Kick off at 9pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217\nRSVP Required \nWednesday\, June 24: Haiti vs. Morocco\nDoors open at 4pm | Kick off at 6pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217\nRSVP Required\n \nRSVP on Eventbrite & grab exclusive add-ons while availability lasts! » 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/lakay-foutbol-world-cup-2026-june-19-haiti-vs-brazil/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Collaborations
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260706
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SUMMARY:On View: 2025 Lakou NOU Culminating Expo
DESCRIPTION:A week-long exhibition featuring the culmination of work from the Lakou NOU 2025 Artists-In-Residence.\n\nOn View\nSunday\, June 21 – Sunday\, July 5\, 2026 \nKafou Gallery\n1120 Washington Ave 2nd floor\nBrooklyn\, NY 11225 \nGallery Hours\nThursday\, June 25 6–9pm\nFriday\, June 26 6–9pm\nSaturday\, June 27 12–6pm\nSunday\, June 28 12–6pm\nThursday\, July 2 6–9pm\nFriday\, July 3 6–9pm\nSunday\, July 5 12–6pm \n  \nHosted & Curated by Haiti Cultural Exchange and Kafou Gallery \nThe 2025 Lakou NOU Culminating Expo highlights four expressive and collaborative projects that seek to empower\, understand\, and archive the Haitian experience. This cohort of artists explore core themes of care\, familial connection\, and the Haitian community’s relationship to their homeplaces and the natural world. Lakou NOU artists-in-residence Bo Dautruche\, Georgie Exinord\, Cici Osais\, and Zarita Zevallos welcome us into a dynamic experience of oral history\, creative storytelling\, and visual art installations. \nThis free event and week-long exhibition presents the artists’ work in conversation with each other\, highlighting their distinct approach to unpacking stories and approaches to cultural preservation in Brooklyn. \nUnlike traditional artmaking\, where an artistic creation amplifies a sole perspective\, Lakou NOU residents generated their projects collaboratively with community members\, providing creative outlets to convey inner experiences and share histories that are rarely shared or often under-presented.  \nEstablished in 2016\, Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Lakou NOU artist residency program provides artists of Haitian descent with the opportunity to create and present new work by connecting their skills and talents to historically underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods\, home to generations of Haitians and Haitian-Americans: Crown Heights\, Canarsie\, East Flatbush\, and Flatbush. Lakou NOU artists develop collaborative community engagement projects that address neighborhood issues and highlight community assets. Artists in residence received individualized mentorship from HCX staff and interacted with each other as a cohort through discussion and support around topics relevant to Lakou NOU projects. HCX-facilitated additional professional development workshops and exchanges with a consortium of community stakeholders and creative placekeeping professionals. \nJoin us for the Expo Showcase on Sunday\, June 21\, 2026 from 2-6pm.\nDetails here » \n— \nThis program is made possible in part by the Jerome Foundation. \n \n— \nArtists Project Descriptions \nBo Dautruche\, East Flatbush\nBo’s project “anvan ou bliye//before it’s too late…” moved freely between writing\, critique\, strategy\, research\, and embodied practices  to explore death and grief as it pertains to Black life. Her project sought to (re)discover our relationships to and with transitions and endings. What does death and grief look like for us under the oppressive systems we wish to liberate ourselves from? Understanding the many reasons why this could be a tender subject\, Bo and a myriad of creative workshop collaborators worked together to remind people what real community may feel like – where we could take off our masks\, where we could hold each other\, where we could really talk to each other\, where we could process things in real time with each other\, and build\, learn\, and exchange.  \nThis culminates in her expo work focused on witnessing\, not as judgement or exploitation or extraction or burdening\, but as  connection and ritual that honor both our life and death. Her altar installation welcomes the community to let go of what they may need in order to feel seen\, either through physical objects they bring or reflecting on what is needed to let go of in order to show up for the community. \n  \nGeorgie Exinord\, Flatbush\nGeorgie’s “Good Daughter Project” sprang from one constant: her fervent belief that your stories are already within you. During her residency\, Georgie hosted a series of writing exercises\, memory work\, drawing prompts\, and collective dialogue workshops that sought to capture memory and language earned through the mosaic of one’s lived experience.  \nWhat does it mean to be a good daughter? What unfolded through these workshops were slippages of tenderness\, unexpected intimacies\, and moments of recognition between women who began as strangers. Together\, participants explored the emotional interiority of Haitian and Caribbean diasporic daughters\, particularly the invisible labor\, parentification\, responsibility\, and survival embedded within first-generation daughterhood. \nHer archive and final exhibition work serve as an offering: an account of our lives in our own words\, preserved so those who come after us may know we were here and that we felt deeply. \n  \nCici Osais\, Crown Heights\nCici’s project “Nou kominike ak twal” (We communicate through cloth) is inspired by the communal art-making practices of the Black diaspora. It is rooted in an understanding of artmaking as something we are all capable of\, and that’s best as a collective experience. Cici activated this idea to foster a space for individuals to create in unison\, where works became parts of a whole.  \nAcross the Diaspora cloth is used to hold stories. Within her textile practice\, Cici uses techniques from her parents’ and grandparents’ motherlands: Haiti\, Congo\, Nigeria\, and Black America. Because most of these places are out of reach and these traditions passed down orally\, Osais have spent many years learning and researching these methods. I owe my craft to the archives and people who were willing to share this knowledge with me\, and see it as my duty to continue passing along all that I have learned.  \nThrough natural dyeing workshops in local community gardens focused on conversation and connection\, neighbors learned new ways of communicating creatively and were able to contribute textiles to a selection of Cici’s culminating works that will live in the gardens where they were born. \n  \nZarita Zevallos\, Canarsie\nZarita’s residency was centered on introducing participants to both new material and new ways of creating. She used the novel Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain as a conceptual foundation while also introducing participants to beginner-friendly cameras and film photography as an accessible creative medium.  \nUsing the immediate environment of Canarsie\, Zevallos’ workshops explored themes of Haitian identity\, community labor\, displacement\, and the importance of reconnecting with one’s roots by drawing parallels between the experiences in Masters of the Dew and contemporary Haitian realities. \nWhat revealed itself were deeply personal and intergenerational ties to philosophical\,  timeless\, and keenly relevant experiences that remain in play today.  Creatively building alongside the work of her workshop participants\, Zevallos will capture some of the powerful spaces for remembrance\, dialogue\, and cultural preservation through her installation work arriving at the culminating expo.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/on-view-2025-lakou-nou-culminating-expo/
LOCATION:kafou gallery\, 1120 Washington Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11225\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lakou NOU 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T140000
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SUMMARY:Lakou NOU Culminating Expo Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of conversation and celebration surrounding the culmination of work from the Lakou NOU 2025 Artists-In-Residence.\n\nExpo Showcase\nSunday\, June 21\n2-6pm \nKafou Gallery\n1120 Washington Ave 2nd floor\nBrooklyn\, NY 11225 \n  \nHosted & Curated by Haiti Cultural Exchange and Kafou Gallery \nThe 2025 Lakou NOU Culminating Expo highlights four expressive and collaborative projects that seek to empower\, understand\, and archive the Haitian experience. This cohort of artists explore core themes of care\, familial connection\, and the Haitian community’s relationship to their homeplaces and the natural world. Lakou NOU artists-in-residence Bo Dautruche\, Georgie Exinord\, Cici Osais\, and Zarita Zevallos welcome us into a dynamic experience of oral history\, creative storytelling\, and visual art installations. \nThis free event and week-long exhibition presents the artists’ work in conversation with each other\, highlighting their distinct approach to unpacking stories and approaches to cultural preservation in Brooklyn. \nUnlike traditional artmaking\, where an artistic creation amplifies a sole perspective\, Lakou NOU residents generated their projects collaboratively with community members\, providing creative outlets to convey inner experiences and share histories that are rarely shared or often under-presented.  \nEstablished in 2016\, Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Lakou NOU artist residency program provides artists of Haitian descent with the opportunity to create and present new work by connecting their skills and talents to historically underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods\, home to generations of Haitians and Haitian-Americans: Crown Heights\, Canarsie\, East Flatbush\, and Flatbush. Lakou NOU artists develop collaborative community engagement projects that address neighborhood issues and highlight community assets. Artists in residence received individualized mentorship from HCX staff and interacted with each other as a cohort through discussion and support around topics relevant to Lakou NOU projects. HCX-facilitated additional professional development workshops and exchanges with a consortium of community stakeholders and creative placekeeping professionals. \nExhibition On View\nSunday\, June 21 – Sunday\, June 28\, 2026 \nGallery Hours\nThursday – Friday 6-9pm\nSaturday 12-6pm\nSunday 12-6pm \n— \nThis program is made possible in part by the Jerome Foundation. \n \n— \nArtists Project Descriptions \nBo Dautruche\, East Flatbush\nBo’s project “anvan ou bliye//before it’s too late…” moved freely between writing\, critique\, strategy\, research\, and embodied practices  to explore death and grief as it pertains to Black life. Her project sought to (re)discover our relationships to and with transitions and endings. What does death and grief look like for us under the oppressive systems we wish to liberate ourselves from? Understanding the many reasons why this could be a tender subject\, Bo and a myriad of creative workshop collaborators worked together to remind people what real community may feel like – where we could take off our masks\, where we could hold each other\, where we could really talk to each other\, where we could process things in real time with each other\, and build\, learn\, and exchange.  \nThis culminates in her expo work focused on witnessing\, not as judgement or exploitation or extraction or burdening\, but as  connection and ritual that honor both our life and death. Her altar installation welcomes the community to let go of what they may need in order to feel seen\, either through physical objects they bring or reflecting on what is needed to let go of in order to show up for the community. \n  \nGeorgie Exinord\, Flatbush\nGeorgie’s “Good Daughter Project” sprang from one constant: her fervent belief that your stories are already within you. During her residency\, Georgie hosted a series of writing exercises\, memory work\, drawing prompts\, and collective dialogue workshops that sought to capture memory and language earned through the mosaic of one’s lived experience.  \nWhat does it mean to be a good daughter? What unfolded through these workshops were slippages of tenderness\, unexpected intimacies\, and moments of recognition between women who began as strangers. Together\, participants explored the emotional interiority of Haitian and Caribbean diasporic daughters\, particularly the invisible labor\, parentification\, responsibility\, and survival embedded within first-generation daughterhood. \nHer archive and final exhibition work serve as an offering: an account of our lives in our own words\, preserved so those who come after us may know we were here and that we felt deeply. \n  \nCici Osais\, Crown Heights\nCici’s project “Nou kominike ak twal” (We communicate through cloth) is inspired by the communal art-making practices of the Black diaspora. It is rooted in an understanding of artmaking as something we are all capable of\, and that’s best as a collective experience. Cici activated this idea to foster a space for individuals to create in unison\, where works became parts of a whole.  \nAcross the Diaspora cloth is used to hold stories. Within her textile practice\, Cici uses techniques from her parents’ and grandparents’ motherlands: Haiti\, Congo\, Nigeria\, and Black America. Because most of these places are out of reach and these traditions passed down orally\, Osais have spent many years learning and researching these methods. I owe my craft to the archives and people who were willing to share this knowledge with me\, and see it as my duty to continue passing along all that I have learned.  \nThrough natural dyeing workshops in local community gardens focused on conversation and connection\, neighbors learned new ways of communicating creatively and were able to contribute textiles to a selection of Cici’s culminating works that will live in the gardens where they were born. \n  \nZarita Zevallos\, Canarsie\nZarita’s residency was centered on introducing participants to both new material and new ways of creating. She used the novel Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain as a conceptual foundation while also introducing participants to beginner-friendly cameras and film photography as an accessible creative medium.  \nUsing the immediate environment of Canarsie\, Zevallos’ workshops explored themes of Haitian identity\, community labor\, displacement\, and the importance of reconnecting with one’s roots by drawing parallels between the experiences in Masters of the Dew and contemporary Haitian realities. \nWhat revealed itself were deeply personal and intergenerational ties to philosophical\,  timeless\, and keenly relevant experiences that remain in play today.  Creatively building alongside the work of her workshop participants\, Zevallos will capture some of the powerful spaces for remembrance\, dialogue\, and cultural preservation through her installation work arriving at the culminating expo. \n 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/lakou-nou-culminating-expo-showcase-2/
LOCATION:kafou gallery\, 1120 Washington Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11225\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lakou NOU 2025
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SUMMARY:Lakay Foutbòl | World Cup 2026 | Haiti vs. Morocco
DESCRIPTION:HCX is HQ to watch Haiti’s national team Les Grenadiers bring us to World Cup victory!\n\nHosted in collaboration with Maison Demar\, this series of watch parties will feature summer evening kick-backs with cold drinks\, great vibes\, exclusive product releases by Haitian fashion designers and lifestyle brands.  \nGrenadye Alaso!  \n\nWednesday\, June 24: Haiti vs. Morocco\nDoors open at 4pm | Kick off at 6pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217 \n\nRSVP on Eventbrite & grab exclusive add-ons while availability lasts! »  \n  \nJoin Us for More Watch Parties \n—\nSaturday\, June 13: Haiti vs. Scotland\nDoors open at 7pm | Kick off at 9pm\nLocation: HCX\, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn\, NY 11217 \nFriday\, June 19: Haiti vs. Brazil\nHosted in collaboration with Rooftop Films & Council Member Chi Ossé\nEvent start TBA | Kick off at 9pm | NO RSVP NEEDED\nLocation: Von King Park\, 670 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11216
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/lakay-foutbol-world-cup-2026-haiti-vs-morocco/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Collaborations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T140000
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SUMMARY:Records & Rhum Day Party with Patrice Espérant
DESCRIPTION:Join Patrice Espérant for an old school day party with vinyl sessions featuring Haitian vintage sounds and rhum. Ayiti cheri\, vinyl is alive!\nHaitian & French Caribbean Classics\n70s · 80s · 90s \n— \nRSVP is required for entry!\nAdditional admission will be available at the door until capacity is reached. \n— \nSaturday\, June 27\, 2026\n 2–7pm \nRSVP on Eventbrite while availability lasts! » 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/records-rhum-day-party-with-patrice-esperant/
LOCATION:Prospect Park Boat House\, 101 East Dr.\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11225
CATEGORIES:Records & Rhum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T200000
DTSTAMP:20260608T211809Z
CREATED:20260608T211809Z
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with Gashford Guillaume & Creole Fusion Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Join Haiti Cultural Exchange at Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Thursday\, July 9\, 2026 for Mizik Ayiti! featuring Gashford Guillaume & Creole Fusion Ensemble.\nThursday\, July 9\, 2026\n7–8pm\nBrooklyn Botanic Garden\nPlant Family Collection\n990 Washington Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY 11225 \nGashford Guillaume & Creole Fusion Ensemble blend Haitian culture with jazz\, soul\, R&B\, and world music vibes live at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This is a night truly not to be missed! \nGashford Guillaume is a Brooklyn-based Haitian American drummer and bandleader living in a legacy of music. Leading his Creole Fusion Ensemble\, Gashford brings together a dynamic group of musicians fusing Haitian grooves with jazz and soul. The evening features vocalist Marla Roy\, a Haitian American artist known for her powerful\, heartfelt voice alongside special guest musicians. \n\nPresented 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-with-gashford-guillaume-creole-fusion-ensemble/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T210000
DTSTAMP:20260721T170448Z
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SUMMARY:An n Pale with Paul Beaubrun | VERTIÈRES Album Listening Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first listening party of the album release tour! Hosted by Haiti Cultural Exchange & Rhum Barbancourt. Paul Beaubrun brings his highly anticipated album VERTIÈRES to HCX for the first listening party of the album release tour!\nPaul will treat us to an acoustic set of select songs from his newest album VERTIÈRES\, share a special screening of the album’s trailer and join HCX Executive Director Régine M. Roumain in conversation about his work and latest project. \nSavor the night with hors d’oeuvres and specialty cocktails provided by Rhum Barbancourt. Paul Beaubrun’s latest album VERTIÈRES is a transformational album and cultural movement inspired by Haiti’s revolutionary victory. Rooted in the Battle of Vertières–Haiti’s historic battle on November 18\, 1803 against France\, leading to Haiti’s independence–it brings together ancestral memory\, spiritual awakening\, and modern music to open a new chapter for Haitian art. \nVERTIÈRES is a deeply personal journey from heartbreak to spiritual sovereignty. Through facing an inner war\, the artist discovers self-mastery\, discipline\, and personal power. This is not a story about defeating others\, but about taking full responsibility for one’s life\, choices\, and existence. \nBy merging the personal and the collective\, VERTIÈRES reflects a central truth of Haitian history: true revolution begins within. VERTIÈRES goes beyond an album\, it serves as a cultural platform grounded in legacy\, presenting Haiti’s new sound to the world. \nSponsored by Rhum Barbancourt \n \n— \nSaturday\, August 1\, 2026\n 6–9pm \nRSVP is required for entry.\n$20 Suggested Donation\nEntry based on capacity. Additional admission will be available at the door until capacity is reached. Your donation supports the mission of Haiti Cultural Exchange\, the home for Haitian arts & culture in New York City. \nRSVP on Eventbrite »  \n— \nAbout Paul Beaubrun \n \nPaul Beaubrun is a Haitian musician and songwriter known for his fusion of traditional Haitian music with elements of rock\, blues\, afrobeat\, and reggae. Raised in Port-au-Prince and the son of the Grammy-nominated band Boukman Eksperyans\, music has shaped his life from an early age. After moving to New York City as a youth\, he expanded his musical influences while remaining deeply rooted in his Haitian heritage. \nA gifted guitarist\, multi-instrumentalist\, and vocalist\, Paul blends Haitian Creole\, French\, and English into a distinctive sound that explores identity\, resilience\, and culture. His work has earned recognition both in Haiti and internationally. \nPaul has collaborated and performed with artists including Ms. Lauryn Hill\, Maxwell\, Michael Brun\, Arcade Fire\, Jackson Browne\, Sheryl Crow\, and Bob Weir. He has appeared at renowned venues and festivals including Radio City Music Hall\, The Beacon Theatre\, Massey Hall\, The Ryman Theatre\, the Montreal Jazz Festival\, Coachella\, Festival International Nuits d’Afrique\, Le Trianon in Paris\, Paleo Festival\, and Afropunk. \nHis career highlights include receiving the UNESCO-Aschberg Artist in Residency Scholarship\, topping the iTunes World Music chart with Vilnerab\, earning a Dora Award nomination for Espwa/Espoir\, performing at the United Nations\, receiving the Coup de Coeur award for his music video “Naissance\,” being featured on the cover of The Haitian Times\, and being named one of the Haitian Roundtable’s “100 Most Influential People in the Haitian Community.” He also contributed to Let The Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit Vol. 1 alongside Jackson Browne\, Habib Koité\, Jenny Lewis\, Raúl Rodríguez\, Jonathan Russell\, Jonathan Wilson\, and members of Lakou Mizik. \nBeyond his music\, Paul is an advocate for social and environmental causes\, partnering with organizations including the Lambi Fund of Haiti\, Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 350.org\, Playing for Change\, and Music Heals International. His work reflects a commitment to using music as a platform for cultural pride\, resilience\, and positive change. \nSince 2022\, Paul has been a touring member of Arcade Fire\, joining the band’s WE tour and appearing on Saturday Night Live\, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\, and stages around the world. \nWebsite » \n— \nMain feature photos by Jean Oscar | Photo of Paul Beaubrun in bio by Vladim Vilain
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/an-n-pale-with-paul-beaubrun-vertieres-album-listening-party/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:An n Pale
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116
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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\nRSVP Here »  \nSun. Nov 15 | 4-7pm\nClosing Reception\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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T210000
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | OPENING RECEPTION and An n Pale with Gage Averill | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening night of Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive.\nThis opening night reception will feature a dynamic An n Pale between several exhibition artists and Dr. Gage Averill\, a renowned ethnomusicologist and curator of Alan Lomax in Haiti\, 1936-37\, a Grammy Nominated box set of Lomax’s recordings\, films\, and writings from his time in Haiti.\nSaturday\, September 19\, 2026\n6–9pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \n—\nAbout Gage Averill \nGage Averill (Ph.D. University of Washington\, 1989) is the Provost and Vice President Academic at the University of British Columbia and was formerly UBC’s Dean of Arts. He was Vice-Principal Academic University of Toronto Mississauga) and formerly Dean of Music at the University of Toronto\, and before that Chair of Music at NYU. \nHe is an ethnomusicologist specializing in popular music of the Caribbean and North American vernacular music.  Prof. Averill served as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology between 2009-2011. His book on barbershop singing (Four Parts\, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony\, Oxford 2003) won best book prizes from the Society for Ethnomusicology (Merriam Prize) and the Society for American Music; his book on Haitian popular music and power (A Day for the Hunter: A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti\, Chicago 1997) was awarded the best book prize in ethnic and folk research by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections; and the 10-CD boxed set of music and film he curated\, along with an accompanying book\, called Alan Lomax in Haiti\, 1936-37\, received two Grammy Nominations. \nHe has consulted for the Ford Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Smithsonian\, OAS\, Fulbright\, and for films\, festivals\, and copyright cases. For fun he kayaks\, bikes\, writes/performs music\, and works on construction projects. \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\nOn view from September 19 through November 15\, 2026.\n \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 »  \n 
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/vizyon-atistik-opening-reception-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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261023
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SUMMARY:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Fall Series | Gashford Guillaume
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Fall residency will be held by Gashford Guillaume! \nGashford Guillaume brings the beat to lead a rotating ensemble of guest musicians for unique weekly performances blending Haitian culture with jazz\, soul\, R&B\, and world music vibes live at Haiti Cultural Exchange. \nGashford Guillaume is a Brooklyn-based Haitian American drummer and bandleader living in a legacy of music. Assembling unique arrangements of global sound\, Gashford brings together a dynamic group of musicians fusing Haitian grooves with jazz and soul. Workshops\, modern drum experiences\, guest musicians and vocalists\, join Guillaume and await 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:\nSeptember 24 and October 1\, 8\, 15 & 22\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.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/mizik-ayiti-residency-fall-series-gashford-guillaume/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261018T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261018T190000
DTSTAMP:20261014T162852Z
CREATED:20260807T190711Z
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SUMMARY:Vizyon Atistik | Live music with Fanmi Asòtò | Roots Without End
DESCRIPTION:Ready to be immersed in the traditional sounds and rhythms of Haiti? Come out to HCX for a night of live music with Fanmi Asòtò\, a Haitian cultural organization whose drum performances are rooted in Vodou and pay homage to the asòtò drum. If you haven’t seen Rasin San Bout yet\, this is a wonderful opportunity to experience the exhibition while on view! Come through!\nFanmi Asòtò’s performance will feature bandmates Sirene-Dantor Oliyaya Rene\, Jean Guy Rene (Fanfan Tambo)\, Jude Yatande Sanon\, Magalie Pierre\, Pierreline Senat\, Marie Danielle Leandre Pierre\, and Piterson Georges. \nFanmi Asòtò!\nSunday\, October 18\, 2026\n4–7pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \nOn view from September 19 through November 15th. \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-music-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:An n Pale with authors Alain Leroy & Jacques-Philippe Piverger: Building What Lasts
DESCRIPTION:The groundwork of what we believe comes from what we build within. Join authors Alain Leroy and Jacques-Philippe Piverger for a conversation about their latest books\, which unpack how purpose drives impact that lasts.\nPiverger’s work Inside Code: The Mindful Arts Framework for Life\, Leadership\, and Humanity focuses on the inner architecture of the leader by exploring the integration of ancient practices and modern performance to unlock clarity\, resilience\, and aligned action. Leroy’s book Venture Philanthropy Blueprint (VPB): Builders. Backers. Believers. focuses on the external architecture of building and scaling impact. Together\, they will share a natural conversation about what it takes to build a life of meaning and vision-forward futures. \nPick up your copy in time for this conversation and book signing. \n \nOrder Inside Code: The Mindful Arts Framework for Life\, Leadership\, and Humanity by Jacques-Philippe Piverger » \nOrder Venture Philanthropy Blueprint (VPB): Builders. Backers. Believers. by Alain Leroy » \n  \n— \nWednesday\, October 21\, 2026\n6-9pm \nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette\nBrooklyn\, NY 11217 \n \n  \nThis An n Pale is presented in collaboration with the Haitian Roundtable. \n  \n\n— \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n \nAlain Leroy is a venture architect\, author\, and impact investor working at the intersection of entrepreneurship and innovation. A pioneer in social entrepreneurship and impact investing\, he helps founders\, backers\, and operators turn promising ideas into viable ventures and develop the systems\, resources\, and communities needed for sustainable growth. \nHe is the author of Venture Philanthropy Blueprint: Builders. Backers. Believers.\, which introduces a practical approach to building and scaling mission-driven ventures through Capital + Capacity + Community. At the heart of the framework is a simple idea: funding alone is not enough. Mission-driven ventures also need the operational capacity and community support required to grow\, scale\, and last. \nDrawing on experience across entrepreneurship\, corporate strategy\, technology\, investment\, and education\, Alain combines strategic thinking with the realities of building organizations in today’s world. He teaches social innovation and entrepreneurship and works with founders\, universities\, investors\, and entrepreneurial ecosystems to develop the next generation of ventures and venture builders.\nAs a father\, Alain’s work is also shaped by a larger question: What are we building for the generations that follow us? That perspective informs his commitment to entrepreneurship as a vehicle for creating both economic opportunity and lasting social impact. \nAlain holds a BS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. \nThrough VPB\, Alain is advancing a model of entrepreneurship where economic value and social impact are intentionally designed to work together. \n  \n \nJacques-Philippe Piverger has built a reputation as a leader at the intersection of finance\, entrepreneurship\, philanthropy\, and human potential. From helping oversee more than $10 billion in global investments to founding and scaling companies with impact in 70+ countries\, his work has consistently demonstrated that exceptional performance and purposeful leadership can go hand in hand. \nAs Founder and Managing Partner of GoodLight Capital\, he invested in visionary founders tackling global challenges. As co-founder and CEO of MPOWERD\, he helped bring millions of solar-powered products to communities around the world. He also has founded The Mindful Arts\, a movement dedicated to integrating ancient wisdom with modern well-being based on his lifelong practice of martial arts\, yoga\, breath work and meditation. \nHis influence extends well beyond business. Jacques-Philippe has advised global philanthropic initiatives\, including George Clooney’s Hope for Haiti Fund\, helped establish the Council of Urban Professionals\, served on influential public and nonprofit boards\, and was recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. \nInside Code reveals the personal framework that has guided Jacques-Philippe’s life and career. Long before it became a book\, these principles shaped the way he built companies\, made investment decisions\, cultivated relationships\, and approached leadership. Now\, for the first time\, he shares the philosophy behind a lifetime of impact\, offering readers a practical path toward greater clarity\, purpose\, and fulfillment.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/an-n-pale-with-authors-jacques-philippe-piverger-alain-leroy-building-what-lasts/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:An n Pale
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SUMMARY:Haiti Cultural Exchange at Fall Harvest Festival presents Konbit: Agricultural Dances of Harvest in Haiti
DESCRIPTION:Konbit: Agricultural Dances of Harvest in Haiti by Nadia Dieudonné & Feet of Rhythm will take you on a journey to the countryside of Haiti where we will explore the rich traditions of Konbit\, the rural collective organizing practice of a community coming together toward a shared goal. Through live demonstrations and group participation\, families will discover how Haitian rural life weaves the culture of music and dance to agricultural work and harvest celebration.\nLearn about three traditional dances associated with agricultural work and community celebration: Djouba\, Kontredans\, and Chay o Pye. Through their movements\, rhythms\, and cultural significance\, audiences will experience the spirit of cooperation and collective energy that defines Konbit. Explore the spiritual connection of the season’s lwa of many names––Azaka\, Kouzen\, and Ayizan––and the connections to earth\, marketplace and Konbit. The program will bring to life traditional agricultural foods\, tools\, and clothing worn in the countryside\, creating a deeper connection to the people\, practices\, and traditions at the heart of Haitian culture. \nThis interactive program invites audiences to learn\, dance\, discover\, and celebrate Haitian cultural heritage as participants gain a deeper understanding of how community\, agriculture\, spirituality\, music and tradition come together through Konbit. \n— \nPresenting in collaboration with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as part of the Fall Harvest Festival. Celebrate the fall season surrounded by some of Brooklyn’s most fabulous foliage. Enjoy live music\, hands-on activities for families\, and more. Come dressed in your best flannel—or a costume for an afternoon parade!\n \nFree with Festival Admission.\nLearn more and reserve tickets here » \n—\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nNadia Dieudonné is a seasoned choreographer\, performer and dance educator. By 12 years old\, Dieudonné was performing with well-known Haitian folk singer and community activist  Myriam Dorismé. Nadia’s innate talent as a Haitian dancer grew stronger in 1990\, as she began to travel back  to her homeland to research and study the origins\, purposes of Haitian dance and its connections to Africa. She  honed her skills by attending several Lakous (communities that preserve and practice specific Vodou ceremonies)  in the countryside and in reputable dance schools with esteemed dancers/teachers in Port-au-Prince\, and New  York. Dieudonné was also mentored by the Haitian dance icon Jean-León Destiné and worked with him for  many years as a performer and assistant instructor. Today\, Dieudonné is known globally as one of the best Banda dancers outside of Haiti. \nIn 1995\, her passion for dance led her to establish Nadia Dieudonné & Feet of Rhythm\, a Brooklyn-based  Haitian dance company specializing in theater performances with live instrumentation. In the founding of this  organization\, Dieudonné also created Feet of Rhythm Kids to include Haitian-American youths who are not  aware of nor exposed to the vibrant culture of Haiti. Through their performances and signature cultural program  called “Konbit\,” Feet of Rhythm has been educating the community through the performing arts for three  decades.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/haiti-cultural-exchange-at-fall-harvest-festival-presents-konbit-agricultural-dances-of-harvest-in-haiti/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Botanic Garden\, 990 Washington Avenue\, Brookyln\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Collaborations
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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:VIZYON ATISTIK | Sound\, Archive\, and Cyanotype | Workshop with Jennica Drice
DESCRIPTION:Artist Jennica Drice leads this hands-on session showing how sound can be made visible through cyanotype. Participants will create unique spectrogram images derived from Lomax’s 1936-37 recordings from Haiti using the techniques Drice used to create her own piece for the exhibition\, Legba Across.\nCyanotype is one of the earliest photographic printing processes\, using light and chemistry to produce striking Prussian blue images.  \nNo prior experience needed. \nAll materials provided. \nRegister for the Workshop Here » \nRegistration includes a complimentary beverage & light refreshments.\nLimited capacity\, RSVP required. \nSunday\, November 8\, 2026\n3–5pm\nHaiti Cultural Exchange\n35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn\, NY \nThis event is part of the Vizyon Atistik public programming for Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive\, on view until November 15\, 2026. \n—\nAbout the Exhibition \nRasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive features works by contemporary Haitian artists responding to selections from the 1930s Haiti collection of the Alan Lomax Archive\, stewarded by the Association for Cultural Equity.  \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. \nLearn more about the exhibition and artists here»  \nJoin the artists & curators for other activations taking place as part of this exhibition \n—\nAbout The Artist \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.
URL:https://haiticulturalx.org/event/vizyon-atistik-sound-archive-and-cyanotype-workshop-with-jennica-drice/
LOCATION:Haiti Cultural Exchange\, 35 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vizyon Atistik,Workshop
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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 guests. \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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